This Is MS Multiple Sclerosis Community: Knowledge & Support

Congratulations Mutley.

Really really happy for you!!!

Congratulations with the baby!!

And also for yourself
Remember: balance, muscle power, coordination! Three things that were gone cause the MS. Train them.....it's possible now!!

rgds

Rob

Congratulations for being a father ...again
Thats great news about your improvements!!
I wanted to ask you who you got your travel insurance with?
Does it have to be a special one because of the procedure?
Many thanks
xia

What lovely news and auguuuriii for your baby!

Just to inform you that got my doppler yesterday and met thousands of lovely people in Katowice! What a suprise to see Erika, and we visited Pepe and his wife Maria at the hospital (she is very well and you can see: overhappy! And Pepe also of course!). Then at Rolna we met other people from this forum: Ion and George (both were also there for a doppler test). We were all 3 diagnosed with CCSVI. My problem is an occlusion of the left jugular vein due to a pathologic valve.

Ion gets (maybe already got?) his procedure immediately today. For myself, we'll now see...Simka will check his Agenda - I had indicated interest already last year, so we'll see... And George will maybe also try to get follow-up in US.

I heard s.o. had question about hotel: I booked via booking.com since very easy with credit card and the reservation went perfectly well. I just called the hotel to inform them that would arrive very late (around 23:00) and I'm sure you can also call to ask specific other disability issues.

Steffi

Steffi!!!!
How wonderful you have also been diagnosed with ccsvi!!!!!
That's huge news. I wish you my best.

How wonderful to hear about your news and also about being able to meet others from this forum. I wonder who will be there when Ella goes next months. Good luck with the procedure...

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Michele,  warrior4MS, mother and champion for Ella, the MSer. The solution is out there we just have to ask the right questions.

Yes, and the best news is: We'll most likely all be!

I even saw my occlusion on the screen (Simka showed it to me - he stopped the pics) and afterwards when looked at the doppler photos from Zamboni's research paper understood it even better - the blue (vein) and red filled circle (arterie).

I had at one point no blue colour (actually no colour at all - it was simply empty = black) in the left jugular vein and only like little moving blue spots/worms in another point next to it ! But no full blue-filling like one could observe in my right OK jugular vein! The arterie was always fully red.

That was the most convincing for myself - not only to believe + read about the link between MS and CCSVI: but to really see it !

Steffi

Congrats to you and your wife Mutley. Thats wonderful news, Claire.

Hi Mutley

Great news on everything,so happy for you

Pam

Mutley. I congratulate you on the birth of your baby girl. I appreciate your updates very much. I look forward to everyone's. I am expecting to hear about your six-pack abs in a short while

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Diagnosed 1994, Self EDSS is 6.5

Congrats to you and your wife Mutley!
Erika

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Aug. 7, 09 Doppler Ultras. in Poland, left Jugul. valve problem, RRMS since 1996, now SPMS,
- Nov.3,09: one stent in the left jug. vein in Katowice, Poland, LDN, never on DMDs
- Jan. 19, 11: control venography in Katowice - negative but I feel worse

Hi Mutley,

Congratulation!
Wonderful news!

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María was Dx RRMS 1996. SPMS since 2003; Dx CCSVI by Dr. Simka on Dec.-2009; Balloon angioplasty on Jan.-2010 in Katowice (Poland); Betaseron (2000-2009); Tysabri since June 2009. BBD since 2003. IBT since Jan.-2010.

Mutley, congratulations on the new baby girl! How wonderful!

I have a question about setting up appointments. I wonder if you could let me know the process involved for setting up this operation? I already have paid for my private scans out here in Canada, MRVs, which show blockages in my veins, but no one treats it in Canada. So, is there a phone number to start the process? Or perhaps do we email the hospital .. or ?

Any help you can provide in this area would be so greatly appreciated.

Also, I thought that you said you had to pay cash for the operation, but later you said you paid by credit card? Maybe I'm mixing up two posts together, but if you could clarify that, it would be helpful to me. Thank you!

Dawna

Dawn,
The problem at the moment is not the scans, dopplers etc but the procedure itself. They have a waiting list that stretches into 2011. The best way to proceed is to email as it is mostly the doctors who speak Engish and they are too busy to talk on the phone.

Dr Marian Simka
Tel: 0048 322120498
Email: mariansimka@poczta.onet.pl
You can pay by card and if you have problems on the day they will give you an invoice that you need to pay within 14 days which means you can do it when you get home.

Hopefully treatment will be available in other places before too long.

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Michele,  warrior4MS, mother and champion for Ella, the MSer. The solution is out there we just have to ask the right questions.

Thank you for your reply... do you have to pay anything to go on the waitlist? (some type of deposit?) I had NO idea the wait list has gotten so big.. .wow.. another year. <sigh>