Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease of the central nervous system (CNS), beginning most often in late adolescence and early adult life and expressing itself by reccurrent attacks of spinal cord, brain-stem, cerebellar, optic nerve and cerebral dysfunction, the result of foci of destrucion of myelinated fibers.
In this retrospective study we evaluated 280 patients who have been hospitalised at Department of neurology in last 3 years. According to the results of our study one hundred and four patients (60%) had either an acute or chronic pain syndrome at some time during their disease. Sixth patients (2.1%) with acute pain syndromes had episodes of paroxismal pain attacks in distribution of trigeminal nerve.
Chronic pain syndromes, present for a mean duration of 4.2 years occurred in 154 patients (55%) and included headache (38%), cervical and lumbosacral syndrome (58%) and painful leg spasms in 4% of patients.
