Re: [JJ World] MS not a nerological disease

[Guest guest]

There is no proof of anything with ms. Current thinking is that it may be

triggered by a virus ( epstein-barr ) in particular. It may be triggered by

allergens, pollutants, chemicals or wherever...no one really knows even the

experts. Last summer the British medical " Lancet " said that it may not even

be neurological.

There is no proof that the med's work or don't work...everything is

conjecture.

One thing is for sure...those on the Swank diet or Ashton Emry's Best Bet

Diet definitely do better than any of the meds.

Those that are on the med's and doing well do not know if they would be

doing just as well without them..........and the doc's don't know either.

A hell of a fix for all of us but that's the way it is.

Regards,

Tom

Re: [JJ World] MS not a nerological disease

Hi Doxie,

I guess they take MRIs of the spine and brain because that's where the

lesions are found. There are no lesions in the rest of the body.

But so far I think the best explanation for MS is a somatic vulnerability

and virus. I vote for Mononeucleosis ( glandular fever) as being the

catalyst. But Doctors argue that the Epstein Bar virus is very common and

it didn't

cause MS in everyone who had it. Sooo we are back to somatic

vulnerability

But as far as trying to figure this out;I've long given up on that one. I

think the natural tendency is to try to find out what got you sick in the

first place. Every newly Dxed person with MS that i know swear they are

going to

find the answer and they persue it for years until they realize the

magnitude of the question

I've had MS for 33 years and I doubt I can figure it out when some of the

greatest minds in the world can't. I just consider it an interesting

mystery.

That's all.

Here is the article claiming MS is not an auto-immune disease. I remember

when it was published it rocked the Neurological world!

Take care,

Dellavento

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Thursday, 14 November 2002 09:59 _The Herald_

(http://www.theherald.co.uk/) · _www.theherald.co.uk_

(http://www.theherald.co.uk/) MS RESEARCH

'CHASING WRONG DISEASE'

Scientists to challenge accepted view of illness

Researchers seeking a cure for multiple sclerosis have been chasing the

wrong disease for a hundred years, a group of scientists warned yesterday.

A study to be published next week in a ish medical journal will claim

the widely-accepted view of MS - that it is an auto-immune disease - is a

blind alley which has cost billions of pounds in flawed research.

Behan, the lead author and emeritus professor of neurology at

Glasgow

University, said the research had produced treatments that failed to

benefit

patients and in many cases caused death and illness.

He and his co-authors - Abhijit Chaudhuri, senior lecturer in clinical

neurosciences at Glasgow University, and Bart Roep, an expert on

auto-immune

disease at Leiden University in the Netherlands - cite more than 200

studies which

they have reviewed to reach their conclusions.

The findings, which will be published in the Journal of the Royal College

of

Physicians of Edinburgh, attack the assumption about MS that has been

regularly extrapolated over the years from animal models.

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To DellaVento: I was first diagnosed with RRMS, in 1990. The MRI showed 4

lesions at the time, and the spinal tap came out clear.I also have been

told

it is autoimmune disease too, but I can't help think thank it must be

nuerolgical at least primarily, and maybe everything else is secondary? I

lean more to neuro, because why would they take an MRI of the brain, where

my " lesions " showed up? Maybe as a grour, we can all figure this " mystery

disease " out, talk more later Doxiegret.

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