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After the first time I went for a walk during a strong niacin flush (meaning a flush that goes all the way down to my toes), I started searching the net to find out why the flush transformed my walking and I found someone else who described a very similar experience:

At http://ms.about.com/b/2009/12/01/ccsvi- ... erosis.htm I found this:

(11) Hazel Young says:
Twenty-five years ago I was diagnosed with primary progressive MS. A year later I had all invisible signs of multiple sclerosis and I was walking with a cane. It often felt as if I were walking underwater. Going up and down stairs was almost impossible. In desperation, I began taking massive doses of vitamins. One of these was niacin.

Upon taking the niacin I would develop the “niacin flush” which would last for about twenty minutes. As I felt the blood rushing throughout my body, for that glorious twenty minutes, I would feel the MS lifting from my body. I would run up and down stairs, stairs I couldn‘t navigate five minutes before. I would grab my husband’s hand and we would walk around the block (yes, without my cane). We would put on our favourite record and dance like we hadn’t done in more than a year. Then the flush would disappear and the MS would take over my body once again.

No doctor has ever been able to explain why the niacin flush had this effect on me, but I always knew it had something to do with blood flow. As this niacin website states: “Niacin causes the capillaries in your body to get bigger…capillaries are the main way for your body to rid itself of toxins.”
http://www.mens-total-fitness.com/niacin-flush.html

When I watched Dr. Zamboni’s Liberation Treatment on television it finally felt like maybe there was a connection.

Does the following experience sound like CCSVI to you guys?

THX1138:
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After the first time I went for a walk during a strong niacin flush (meaning a flush that goes all the way down to my toes), I started searching the net to find out why the flush transformed my walking and I found someone else who described a very similar experience:

At http://ms.about.com/b/2009/12/01/ccsvi- ... erosis.htm I found this:

(11) Hazel Young says:
Twenty-five years ago I was diagnosed with primary progressive MS. A year later I had all invisible signs of multiple sclerosis and I was walking with a cane. It often felt as if I were walking underwater. Going up and down stairs was almost impossible. In desperation, I began taking massive doses of vitamins. One of these was niacin.

Upon taking the niacin I would develop the “niacin flush” which would last for about twenty minutes. As I felt the blood rushing throughout my body, for that glorious twenty minutes, I would feel the MS lifting from my body. I would run up and down stairs, stairs I couldn‘t navigate five minutes before. I would grab my husband’s hand and we would walk around the block (yes, without my cane). We would put on our favourite record and dance like we hadn’t done in more than a year. Then the flush would disappear and the MS would take over my body once again.

No doctor has ever been able to explain why the niacin flush had this effect on me, but I always knew it had something to do with blood flow. As this niacin website states: “Niacin causes the capillaries in your body to get bigger…capillaries are the main way for your body to rid itself of toxins.”
http://www.mens-total-fitness.com/niacin-flush.html

When I watched Dr. Zamboni’s Liberation Treatment on television it finally felt like maybe there was a connection.

THX1138 wrote:I have to wonder what causes the vasoconstriction that the niacin flush temporarily relieves
Let's ask ourselves: What causes vasoconstriction ?
Yes, the vasodilation (or is it the increase in Mg+2 ions) really improves things during the niacin flush. AND
Personally, I get similar, albeit much milder improvements in walking, etc. from strong topical Mg treatments.
Both cause vasorelaxation.

Personally, I get similar, albeit much milder improvements in walking, etc. from strong topical Mg treatments.

THX1138 wrote:
cheerleader, do you think that a serious lack of just one, or just a few, of the components needed for endothelial health could cause ms symptoms

Thanks
THX1138