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Interesting study: Characterizing brain oxygen metabolism in patients with multiple sclerosis with T2-relaxation-under-spin-tagging MRI. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22252237 In this study Ge, et al found that blood in the vein draining the brain (superior sagittal sinus) contained more oxygen...

HarryZ wrote:A MS patient can have brain lesions shown on a MRI yet not exhibit any symptoms.

If a person was completely asymptomatic, I doubt he or she would be diagnosed with MS.

Speels: Mark and Dave gave some good responses. Your doctor can really only tell you that your MS is a mild case now . While I have read about some general trends, there aren't really any good predictors for how MS will progress in an individual. And like Mark said, the point of the DMDs is to preve...

Thanks for the explanation Patientx....Sometimes its so hard to decipher these studies and what they actually mean to us MSers x Definitely. Of course, that's my interpretation of the article - I could be way off base. I'm curious to know how these doctors came up with the combination of injecting ...

mmmm Isn't that what copaxone is??? Its meant to be a myelin copy so how can studies show this diverts the immune system from attacking myelin whereas this study suggests it makes the immune system attack Myelin?? Confused.com I think what this article is saying is that these researchers developed ...

I saw the same post and meant to go back and read the full article.

Guess the moderators didn't like the article. Before this post is deleted, if you want, I can PM the link to the original article.

http://msj.sagepub.com/content/early/20 ... 2.abstract

This article is available for free.

Not saying that's what you have, but given your episodes of optic neuritis, and the lack of brain lesions, my guess is that it should probably be ruled out. I'm surprised the neuroopth wouldn't consider this. You've probably already googled NMO, but, if not, here's a few links: http://www.myelitis.o...

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My guess is that it would be worth seeing a neurologist for another opinion, if the neuropts have nothing else to offer. Clearly, something serious is going on.

Do you know if, in the blood tests they ran, they checked for NMO (Devic's disease)?

The abstract for the study is available here: http://www.aan.com/go/elibrary/journal Objective: Higher latitude, lower ultraviolet exposure, and lower serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) correlate with higher multiple sclerosis (MS) prevalence, relapse rate, and mortality. We therefore evaluated the e...

I'm getting the same warning for any page I visit at thisisms. And the firewall at work has been blocking this site. Is this security risk real?

Carmom: I've never experienced optic neuritis as a result of the MS, so maybe someone else could comment if your daughter's symptoms are typical of ON. Is the opthamologist still the lead doctor, or a neurologist at UCSF? Who looked at the MRI images or report? Usually MS lesions will show up in som...

Hello Dania, If you post a site without comment you appear to support it. If you are not giving an opinion then please say so. There is a lot of mis-information being posted on CCSVI I and others try to challenge this on this site when we see it. MarkW Why don't you guys give Dania a break, already...

I would love to see the ARR calculations to turn out to be different and in a more favourable way than my calculation :) - we will certainly have to wait for the raw numbers to be published. But then again, I think the PR machine of the pharma-company would have explicitly highlighted how to correc...