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How Multiple Sclerosis Works

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Can Antidepressens Treat Chronic Pain With Multiple Sclerosis?

M s is like your body going hay wire in really unique ways for each person with multiple sclerosis. And one of the things they figured out is that in treating chronic pain with multiple sclerosis, a you can use anti depressenc to treat it. The reason why is because apparently chronic pain and depression use a lot of the same narrow pathways as one another. It may be more related, at least neurologically, than chronic pain and acute pain - which seem to be different animals.

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