Again I'm going to say it ... and if anyone wants to take me up on this bet I'll more than willing put down any amount you want.
Hopefully one day we all look back and be like ... man that MSHusband guy was right.
It doesn't matter what your neurologist calls your disease course anymore ... CCSVI IS going to be what it's called in the future.
What is going to be important for CCSVI are the following 3 things.
1. Which vein(s) is(are) stenosed
2. Time
3. How bad is the stenosis
That explains all the following of MS ... type/symptoms/progression and more
PPMS (azygous vein stenosis = spine lesions)
RRMS (jugular vein stenosis = brain lesions)
SPMS (jugular vein stenosis + time, azygous stenosis = brain and spine lesions)
RPMS (jugular and azygous stenosis = brain and spine lesions)
Let's remember ALL MS is progressive (remember 50% go from RRMS to SPMS in 10 years (azygous anyone?) and 90% in 30 years ... so really are you primary progressive all along (just azygous stenosis isn't that bad in that group?)??? Think about it.
Thus:
someone with VERY bad azygous stenosis will be in a wheelchair quickly.
someone with moderate azygous stenosis will take longer.
someone with light jugular stenosis (and no azygous involvement) will likely never progress much at all (and may just have optic neuritis and fatigue)
Symptoms will even start to be figured out (based on lesions and vein stenosis)...
fatigue = in everyone because the body gets worn out from fighting itself all the time
numb hands = stenosis higher up - in the cervical spine (jugular veins putting pressure on the vertebral veins)
numb feet = stenosis lower down - in the thoracic spine (azygous vein) ... left side because the hemi-azygous and accessory hemi-azygous is getting reflux
right side because the azygous is taking the reflux back through
speech issues = stenosis in the jugulars causing brain activity (which part of the brain affects speech)
walking troubles = azygous stenosis (again left side vs. right side as above)
l'hermittes = stenosis in the jugulars putting pressure on the vertebral veins (lesion in the cervical spine)
urinary/bowel problems = brain involvement (which part of the brain affects those controls)
IT ALL MAKES SENES FOLKS. TELL ME WHAT I SAY ABOVE THERE DOESN'T MAKE SENSE?
IN 20 YEARS OR HOWEVER LONG IT WILL BE MEDICALLY 'PROVEN' BUT I THINK DOCTORS WILL HAVE FIGURED THIS OUT LONG BEFORE THEN (IN FACT I BELIEVE SOME HAVE ALREADY).
Again, if anyone wants to bet me ... I'll take that bet right now.
If you really don't believe me ... google the nerve responders for different parts of the brain and spine and where they control) then compare it to your symptoms and where your lesions are ... and when you have CCSVI treatment, compare that to where you had stenosis.
You're all going to see this makes too much sense. It's all ENGINEERING, it's simple. The human body is very complex, but at it's core very simple.
Unfortunately some damage currently in persons with MS for a long time won't be able to be healed, but in the future when people get CCSVI treatment as soon as they present an MS symptom ... it's going to be able to ALL be healed.
But those of you newly diagnosed or without bad symptoms right now ... GO GET CCSVI TREATMENT IMMEDIATELY.
AND ... if they don't find stenosis in your azygous ... don't settle for it. Dr. Zamboni found azygous stenosis in 86% of his patients (and 91% in the jugulars). From what I read about people being treated in Poland, they're not even finding close to those percents. Dr. Sclafani had started to find a lot more azygous stenosis right before he was shut down ... that azygous vein is going to be the KEY. Don't leave the doctor until they are 100% sure they either find stenosis in the azygous ... or can guarantee there is nothing there.
Again ... make my words. TIME will tell ... but I'm usually right (at least my mom always told me growing up ... you ALWAYS think you're right - even then I usually WAS).
PS I've never talked about my wife on here (but I'm going to start right now to prove a point). Her 1st symptom was depression (years ago in college). We never connected it to MS until we made the CCSVI connection - so we went and compared her brain MRI with the part of the brain that controls happiness and other emotions ... guess what? Lesion ... LIKE I SAID ... read through above. It's amazing neurologists couldn't figure this out YEARS ago ...
THANK YOU DR. ZAMBONI