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We have no way of knowing what we are genetically programmed for... perhaps this diet pushed my buttons...It seems to have so clearly done just that. I was eating like an entirely different person...It was a drastic change for me. Oh by the way ...Sorry perhaps I should be yacking on the Diet thread...

How can you say you didn't give yourself MS ... When no one knows what triggers it....I think I could have triggered it with my diet....I made a Life changing diet change (as my doctor called it) & then next thing I know I'm going for a MRI Brain... I read that oats & wheat could aggravate i...

OK I think I get it...Thanks.Who are the biggest researchers regarding this illness? What can we do? Comparing medical histories is a good place to start...What are the best books to read on this topic...I am an avid reader! Are their any celebs promoting our cause? Is anything being done with the i...

Who are these "elders" here? What does that mean? I think your making fun of me.

Are you making fun of me? I have felt terrified.

Its hard not to be fearful.

The childhood illness..might have been chicken pox or German measles...I also had a febrile seizure at one year of age with Roseola! So did my son at one year of age... Neither of us had a seizure since...

They thought I had leukemia as a child & then found out it was an iron deficiency anemia & I was given awful medicine & cod liver oil.... Maybe the writing was already on the wall for me..? I know there is a relationship to T cells... My son was born with a hemangioma right about where y...

I was given Gamma Globulin as a child to fight off a childhood illness because I got it from my sister & got deathly sick...I was born in 1952 & I think this was something new back then...Could this be where the MS comes from... No one in the family had it..?

:( I probably shouldn't be on this site before I go to sleep...Just lay awake & look at ceiling & think about how scared I feel... I really don't know for sure what is up with me...I have a funny sensation in my mid back...I got a copy of a spinal x-ray taken in September... I wanted to see ...

My head is spinning... Think I',m getting to bed ..Talk with you all again.

8O Well I read somewhere (and I've been reading...) that oatmeal can aggravate MS...I never ate it until I started this diet to lower my cholesterol! I must have gone thru several containers of Quaker Oats in six months & eating cheerios at night instead of chips! :D I was eating dried cranberri...

This is some of the stuff that led me to my primary care doctor saying...What about this new diet I was on? How do I stay away from methanl...???Have I induced the disease....??? Could I possibly turn it back off like FAST!!!! :roll: Afraid to eat anything now.... All this stuff about oils makes me ...

8O Hello New Friends.... Just happened to mention to my primary care doctor in July that I was having tingling in my foot & calf everyday for atleast two months. I had recently lost 20 lbs on a diet under the care of a nutritionist...This was specifically to lower my cholesterol (and I did)~Well...