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>>The Essential Health Clinic Newsletter December 2010 CCSVI New Pricing for 2011 Over 40 CCSVI procedures have now been performed at the Edinburgh Clinic. Early results have been very encouraging and we are looking forward to taking this exciting treatment forward in the UK and also internationally...

This was picked up on a Google Alert for CCSVI. I've since set the NHS mail-out to monitor this specific topic.

http://guidance.nice.org.uk/IP/891 Balloon angioplasty with or without stenting for chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) in MS NICE has been notified about this procedure and has considered it as part of the Institute’s work programme. The procedure is being monitored as we are awaitin...

Hi, we will be at Tokuda hospital 1st-5th October flying from Manchester. If anyone is out there on those dates, please PM me and maybe we can hook up

I share the Catch22 sentiment. I think this is why, ultimately, many people choose to have the procedure without more than a gut feeling that it might help. I see lots more Youtube Pre videos than Post Videos and I wonder if people are not seeing much improvement and are waiting to see 'if it comes'...

Hello

Has anyone from the UK been to or is going to Bulgaria for CCSVI treatment? I have an appointment very soon and I would like to talk to anyone who has been there (or is going there).

Please give me a shout

Thank you
Dan

Is anyone here from the UK (or anywhere else) traveling to Bulgaria in January 2011? I have a first appointment with Prof Grozdinski in January and would like to chat to other MSers who are heading out there around the same time. I think I am reading that the general feeling is _good_ about this doc...

Sarah, yes I did have acne as a teenager and took Oxytetracycline tablets for quite a while. This looks like something I'll just have to wait out.

Thanks
Dan

Sarah, I haven't started any new supplements recently. In fact I was taking a Zinc supplement which I stopped a few months ago. I had been recommended by another doctor and I wasn't sure that I needed it. There have been similar stoppages from time to time but right now I'm taking pretty much only t...

Sorry, I should have been clearer. I'm not stopping the Doxycycline but switching the Azith to Roxith, now I know I can get it from alldaychemist. Could it possibly be sub-standard drugs from the Indian pharmacies that might be causative here? I know that UK drugs go through stringent quality contro...

Hi All I have just completed month 12 of the Wheldon protocol. Improvements have been gradual and definite but the Metronidazole is still making me feel pretty rough every month. Over the past few months I have had Acne on my back, shoulders, and a sort of slightly inflamed acne on both of my my tem...