Re: MS and diabetes symptoms very similar

[Guest guest]

Sharon, Bill, Everyone,

I was visiting my mother and father in law yesterday (I am the in house computer tech in the family and he need me to fix something while I was there) anyway, I was chatting with my mother in law who has Parkinsons and found out that Parkinsons and MS are Extremely Close as well. Like some of us she gets the tingles in her hands or feet, achy feelings, fatigue and stuff like that..and all that uncontrolled moving around that you see most with parkinsons do..It is actually their medication that causes it. The only thing the Parkinsons really does to my mother in law is makes her Trimble and shake. We had a long talk yesterday and were both amazed at how close our two diseases were. Of course I was scared out of my wits as I am sure she is when she told me they want to do brain surgery on her and put a pace maker in. I asked her if she is going to let them do that, and she said probably not..that its to scary. I certainly don't blame her one bit.

But you know when I am posting articles on my website or group about MS and the Trials, I had always wondered, WHY parkinsons was almost always included in some of those trials articles. Now I know!!! Know what else I found out??? My grandmother told me that scientists are starting to use one of the Parkinsons medications on MS patients in an effort to try and help them regain their memory. How's that for a close disease??? Parkinsons is almost just like MS only they Trimble and Shake More. I get the shake/trimbles from within and when I do I can't even do my own signature..She is the same way.. I find a few things about my life Ironic...1) All my adult life I was an advocate for MS and then I find I have it. 2) I have MS, and My mother in law has Parkinsons, both autoimmune and both closely connected. 3) My husband is a caregiver of a wife with a disease and my father in law is a caregiver of a wife with a disease. Its like one big puzzle that was placed perfectly together and we all have practically everything in common. Strange....Huh????

Hugs,http://andcoverageforall.info Owner/Founder And Coverage For All 2 Yahoo Grouphttp://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ACFA2/

[Guest guest]

Wow... intriguing...

I did not know this but just for the record, I was found to have gestational diabetes while pregnant with my daughter and it didn't resolve post partum like the docs said it would. I can't get my meds and testing supplies now so I am just trying to diet control.

Becky

[Guest guest]

Hi Becky, My dad has diabetes, didn't know it til he turned 60, he is now 81, and they keep trying to say I have it, but I don't, or my sugar level is not in that area, but I have heard they are very similiar, in fuzzy feet, lots of ways. BettyBECKYLYNNCARTE@... wrote:

Wow... intriguing... I did not know this but just for the record, I was found to have gestational diabetes while pregnant with my daughter and it didn't resolve post partum like the docs said it would. I can't get my meds and testing supplies now so I am just trying to diet control. Becky

[Guest guest]

Hi Bill,

Those people you are talking about? my father was one of

them...died at 51 from complications from diabetes and went blind

from diabetic retinopathy. I so often think about the possibility

that i damaged myself so badly by not taking care of myself for so

many years...and imagine...i did that after watching him suffer and

die because of diabetes (hence de-nile rears its ugly head again!

LOL)

Ya know...it never even crossed my mind to look for any diabetes

discussion groups!(duh) I will certainly check them out..and thanks!

TTFN, (VP)

> Hi

>

> I think with them mapping the DNA has become a big step and I hope

they can figure out a lot of these diseases because of it.

> I know of several people with diabetes that ignored there

condition and went ahead and ate poorly and then losing there feet

or going blind or dying early from heart trouble or something else.

> I was wondering are you in any diabetic discussion groups? I am in

two but don't post often.

> http://groups.msn.com/DiabetecFunFriends

> http://groups.msn.com/ChristianDiabeticFriends

>

> Bill

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> Hi Bill,

> It truly is amazing how similar these two diseases can be, isn't

> it? I am also a diabetic that has done what you did...another

case

> of denial right? And i have many times wondered " what did i do to

> myself " ? However, alot of the symptoms that are the same in the

2

> diseases have 1 thing NOT in common....speed of onset. Things

like

> neuropathy and muscle weakness usually come on slowly in diabetes

> and very suddenly with MS. The connection to other auto-immune

> diseases is becomming frighteningly clear, though. My father had

> diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis..another auto-immune disease.

My

> neuro is a firm believer in the connection between auto-immune

> diseases and that even one case of an auto-immune disease within

> your close relatives gives you a predisposition to any other auto-

> immune disease. How it manifests could just be the luck of the

> draw. My father went blind because of diabetic retinopathy...I,

> however, show absolutely no signs of the problem...but I have MS.

> There really needs to be alot more research done on

this...don'tcha

> think? TTFN, (VP)

[Guest guest]

Hi Becky,

What state do you live in...many have discount programs like EPIC in

NY and PAAD in NJ that you can get meds from for only $5 co-pay. Or

most of the pharmaceutical companies have hardship programs you can

apply for. They are a ton of paperwork and they usually require

paperwork filled out by the dr's office AND many will only send the

meds/testing supplies directly to the dr's office and you have to

pick them up...but at least you can get them. Why don't you check

out some of the websites(like LILLY) and get the info...

Also, how old is your daughter? alot of times gestational diabetes

takes up to 3 years to correct itself.

TTFN, (VP)

> Wow... intriguing...

> I did not know this but just for the record, I was found to have

> gestational diabetes while pregnant with my daughter and it didn't

resolve post partum

> like the docs said it would. I can't get my meds and testing

supplies now so I

> am just trying to diet control.

> Becky