Relapse is not the correct word in your case as I was referring generally to your report of symptom exacerbation.joyj wrote:weather was dry and mild before and through my cold. i have never had a relapse ive got got ppms my legs have never stopped working before. i think it was down to my body heat being high, as soon as i was cool everything was ok.
It will be interesting to see if any changes follow your experiences using IBT in the next few weeks.
During my earlier research into ms, some people who initially had the RR stage and went on to develop a slow steady decline in symptoms found they were having good days and bad days with what appeared to be flare ups followed by improvements that developed weeks later. Usually increased spasm, pain, new pains moving around rather than in one place, muscular aches / stiffening, pins and needles sensation neuropathic pain have all been mentioned, but fortunately only short term.
Some viruses can have a severe impact on mobility for people who do not have ms, like poliomyelitis:
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So it is possible that your cold and the changes in body temperature had an impact on your nervous system that is already affected by ms.
Trying to get my head around the increased body temperature as this also applies to the hot bath test for ms used years ago (fortunately no longer used)
Could your temperature increase have altered the pressure inside your veins and arteries and even caused a restriction in the venous return flow? Is this how Epstein bar virus and other virus is implicated in the onset of ms?
Thanks to Zamboni and Schelling et al and people reporting their experiences we may be able to understand how CCSVI originates.
When influenza infections increase, more people take to their beds and rather than keeping cool, they tend to pile on the bedding and try to sweat it out. This is a dangerous practice, even though it is thought the increased temperature helps to fight the infection.
On IBT the body tends normally to resist overheating but also to resist the normal temperature drop experienced by the majority of people who sleep on a flat bed.
Last year my wife and I had flu for the first time since we tilted our bed all those years ago. Colds vanished at the first sign of symptoms while everyone around us that slept flat developed full blown symptoms. We also shook off our flu far quicker than anyone else and it is fair to say that IBT boosts the immune system. Perhaps the increased temperature was a result of a boosted response and this is where people have attributed an autoimmune response to ms onset?
Your posts on this are very thought provoking.
Andrew