HBI/Re: Low Pressure and Increase of Symptoms -- Why??

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Hi, Lesley.

<lesley.zxb6@...> wrote:

>

> Yes, brain damage is central to this illness. This causes the

> neurological dysfunction in which the CNS control of many other body

> systems goes wrong, leading to the multiple symptoms.

***EXACTLY.

>

> My understanding is that SPECT, PET, MRI, QEEG etc. tests can reveal

> these brain injuries.

***To a certain degree, yes, but many at this point may not be refined

enough to CONFIRM brain injury not produced by stroke yet still

devestating in effect. Also, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy(MRS) of

the brain is good for spotting the right hippocampal poor metabolism

found in PWCs.

***MRS study results for CFS combined with a history and symptom

profile of a PWC can readily be explained by hypoxic brain injury.

The hippocampus is famous in neuroscience for being highly susceptible

to injury by global low oxygen levels, EXACTLY what the low blood

volume/low RBC test results reveal using Chromium 51 Nuclear Tracer in

80% of PWCs!

***Also, some of the subtle heart function anomalies found in some

PWCs by Dr Lerner and Dr Cheney might best be explained by a reduced

feedback mechanism to the heart from an injured or hypoperfused brain

stem(SPECT studies have found this too in PWCs). It is yet another

lower brain structure, obviously, and one that is solidly known to

control heart rate, thereby function in important ways.

However, I was not aware that this brain damage can be HEALED. Can

> it??

***I suspect this is THE key question for us and professional CFS

researchers at this time. And it is the rigor and quality of our

investigation into this possiblity that our lives, and I do mean

authentic quality life, depend.

***Traditionally such damage has been considered to NOT be healable.

So besides the actual damage to our brains, this is what we're up

against concept-construct wise in medical culture.

Do you mean by healed by the brain's own self-healing mechanism

> (e.g. building new neural pathways after brain lesions), or do you

> mean healed by medical intervention?

***Novel medical intervention, probably including new combinations of

older approaches, is what I'm thinking just might work though we're

reaching into the unkown. Given the chronicity of CFS, particularly

those of us still sick after two years from onset, the self-healing

mechanism has proven insufficient by itself to surmount the severity

of the brain injury.

The idea of healing the brain damage seems like a ray of hope!

***Yes and perhaps the only one. It seems to be a critical juncture in

CFS pathophysiology no matter the cause(s) that preceed it.

***It's THE issue now to bring our focus too more than anything else,

IMO. Discovered bugs can be dealt with by antimicrobials, toxins as

well as low blood volume can be resolved by boosting glutathione with

things like RenewPro and perhaps Rich's Simplified Protocol can do

this too. And even the pharma drug Lyrica can increase blood volume

through its water rentention side effect that comes along with helping

sleep and pain for which it was designed.

***But none of these will likely resolve significant brain injury

though they're important to consider using to prevent further damage.

I also think the predominant failure in effectively treating CFS with

SSRIs and cortisone medication, which both depend on hippocampal

reception to work well, is evidence of significant injury there.

***Hypoxic Brain Injury(HBI) and effectively treating it is key to

conquering CFS, IMO.

Best wishes,

>

> Lesley

>

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> <david-hall@> wrote:

> >

> > ***I think such injury is rarely talked about for PWCs, but may indeed

> > be very significant, perhaps even central, to the serious debility we

> > experience. Heal it and YOU WIN THIS GAME!(please let me know if you

> > do too as I'd like to win as well

> >

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