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I've just fiished writing this piece on whether MS is autoimmune.

It was a lot of work so I hope it'll make some difference:

http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/blog/



Festive greetings to you all,

Paul

Wow, an invitation to have a little whinge! I was diagnosed SP in 2007. I haven't a relapse for years, just a slow and steady deterioration. I can still walk with a forearm crutch but after some distance, which varies, it a gets to be an effort, really a lot of effort, to move my legs. This improves...

Hi,

This is my attempt to crystalise my thoughts on this difficult thing. I'd love to know what people think:

http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/blog/

Thanks,

Paul

Hi VikingQuest - I don't know enough about the theory behind HSCT to comment. It's one of quite a few topics I need to catch up on. I gather that the idea is to bulk up on "good" immune cells and thus reducing the effects of the "bad" ones. Let's hope it's at least part of the an...

Good points Paul, although I think it's pretty much solid fact that MS is an autoimmune disease, at least in the RRMS phase. Do you really think so? Read that paper by Barnett & Prineas. (http://www.CPn Help.org/files/Ref1_Annals04.pdf). These two are renowned neurologists not alternative pract...

I think you are right that progress is being made in understanding the complexities of the human body at a cellular and molecular level. As these are better understood all diseases are benefitted. As regards MS, this is a painfully slow way of progressing. What troubles me most is how little researc...

This is about trying to dance with MS:
http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/blog
I hope you like it.
Paul

Hi Seeva - thanks for replying. I find this very hard to talk about - even write about. I still need to be attractive to my partner so I hide these symptoms - pretty well it would seem. I get a bit of stress incontinence which is hateful. Pads for men are very badly designed and next to useless. I'm...

Hi, I'm a newbie here but, sadly, not to MS. I'm secondary progressive diagnosed in 2007 after 28 years of relapsing remitting that wasn't diagnosed until 1999. Well, enough about me... So I've just started using Detrusitol (Tolterodine tartrate also branded as Detrol) for urinary stuff. Anyone else...