This Is MS Multiple Sclerosis Community: Knowledge & Support

Do you have a start date?

1. Have you noticed a change in feeling warm while in bed?

2. Warm hands and warm feet now?

3. A little more energy and waking up a little more refreshed perhaps?

Changes to look for: Increased nail and hair growth. Nails and hair becoming stronger.
Skin and muscle tone changes
Changes in spasm

Increased unfamiliar pain, described as shooting pains not always in the same place. This is important as it frequently follows that some regained function and / or sensitivity is likely within a few weeks.

Remember, IBT is a slow steady process that over a 4 month period has been shown to significantly improve symptoms related to multiple sclerosis.

I am guessing you mean during the day? but no, see above for night.

Whether gravity challenges blood supply to the brain in standing man is a much-disputed topic in physiology. Burton (3) stated that "it is no harder in the circulation for the blood to flow uphill than downhill" and "differences in the level of different parts of the vascular bed do not in any way affect the driving forces for flow and so do not directly affect the circulation" (3). The prerequisite for the existence of a vascular siphon is a continuous column of blood in both the arterial and venous limbs of the loop; for the brain, a siphon could exist from the thoracic aorta via the filled cerebral veins where they leave the skull to the right atrium. The siphon concept implies that no work is done on blood to increase its gravitational potential energy because the pressure gradients are equal and opposite in direction in the ascending and the descending limbs of the loop. Studies addressing the possibility of a siphon include hydrostatic models using rigid and flexible tubing in a laboratory setup; animal studies, especially measurements in giraffes (as a model of considerable heart-to-head difference in height) and snakes; and human studies. We will discuss 1) the siphon concept and the supporting evidence; 2) the "vascular waterfall" and evidence that there is no siphon functioning in blood flow to and from the brain; and 3) based on recent advances, an integration of these seemingly controversial concepts and address the role of the brain itself as interruption of the siphon. The latter part of the discussion is limited to studies in humans.

Maybe the inclined bed would work for those who have mainly cerebral MS and whose internal jugular is blocked. This drains downwards. I doubt it would work for me as I have mainly spinal problems.

mag for the heart cheer!
explains why niacin helps too, it gets that blood firing around. good for more delivery of nutrients to starved tissues also.

In "open" systems gravity hinders uphill flow and causes downhill flow, in which the liquid acts as a falling body. In contrast, in "closed" systems, like the circulation, gravity does not hinder uphill flow nor does it cause downhill flow, because gravity acts equally on the ascending and descending limbs of the circuit. Furthermore, in closed systems, the liquid cannot "fall" by gravity from higher levels of gravitational potential to lower levels of potential. Flow, up or down, must be induced by some source of energy against the resistance of the circuit. In the case of the circulation, the pumping action of the heart supplies the needed energy gradients. Flow in collapsible tubes, like veins, obeys the same basic laws of liquid dynamics except that transmural pressures near zero or below zero reduce markedly the cross-sectional area of the tube, which increases the viscous resistance to flow.