Nana Yaa Agyeman Haruna Attah, Wife of senior journalist, Haruna Attah, is a survivor of Multiple Sclerosis - a potentially disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system).

According to her, the disease has affected her ability to see in one eye while she still battles with several other symptoms and effects in her body every now and then.

Currently, she moves around in a wheel chair as a result of the ailment.

“I went through endoscopy. Right now I am blind in one eye. I was vomiting uncontrollably, I used to be immobile, then I started using a walker and now I sit in a wheel chair. So it is up and down and I keep relapsing,” she told Mr Nortey Dua on the Ultimate Health show, Sunday, May 29.

Contributing to the Show, the Head of the Neurology Department at the Korle-bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) Dr. Albert Akpalu stated that Multiple Sclerosis is a mimic of various disorders in the human body.

He mentioned some signs and symptoms that could mean that an individual may be suffering from the disease, "the things I am going to mention doesn’t mean that you have Multiple Sclerosis. Everybody has dizziness and numbness at some point in time in their life and so that doesn’t mean that you have acquired the disease. Unilateral Vision loss which amounts to total loss of vision in one eye, then it comes back. This is where I will advise you to go and have checkup up as soon as possible. Pain in different parts of the body moves from the hand to the leg, to the back, or goes down to your neck.

"Multiple Sclerosis is also associated with fatigue and paralysis- weakness of one side of the body, impaired coordination, and sudden balance of the body when you are wearing your shoe and you trip over. Bladder and bowel issues, sexual dysfunction, and cognitive problems- when you start forgetting things easily.

"The feeling of tingling and numbness,” All these forms part of the signals that should alert you about Multiple Sclerosis" the Neurologist explained.

Dr Akpalu further mentioned a number of tests that can be carried out on a person before they are diagnosed of the sickness.

“Brain MRI scan, lumbar puncture where we put a small needle into your spine to get the fluid out, we need to do some nerve conduction test and blood tests to come to a conclusion that one has Multiple Sclerosis," he explained.