This Is MS Multiple Sclerosis Knowledge & Support Community

Apologies if I am repeating what someone else has said or asked (I have to admit I have not gone through all the 321 posts on this board!!) Have you all looked at the autoimmune disease Vasculitis? My neuro had put me in either the vasculitis (cerebral) or MS camp. These diseases must look or presen...

Thanks for the response guys (and the for the research Jimmy)

I guess if my ESR was raised it means I am in a inflammatory stage of the disease so hopefully can be helped.

This excerbation I am having though at the mo won't seem to go grrrr

Hi
Has anyone had a raised ESR level during an excerbation?

L

I am not sure...It was a general and when I woke up I wasn't able to breathe properly so god knows how long I was like that for. Also they had given me an epidural (whilst under a GA!) and that didn't wear off for 3/4 days. I was never the same after this op, it triggered all my health probs. The ir...

Hi Gains, It was really hard for me to be told over and over again that there was nothing wrong and that it was impossible for me to have the symptoms I was describing... When the illness ME/CFS was discovered a couple of years after I first got ill I was told it was probably that (although I always...

Hi Had Mono twice (2 different types)!! (I was told by an viral expert that this was in fact possible)

I may be a rare case but I had 8 negative brain MRI's and 3 negative spine MRI's over a period of 13 years of having symptoms. It wasn't until I had 3 bigger attacks that my MRI's went from negative to positive plus my LP went form negative to positive (I had 3 of those over the years too) All my ot...

Deleted by me

L x

My family has a history of autoimmune diseases ( lots of Hashimotos(thyroid antiboidies) type 2 diabetes (I think thats autoimmune) and endometriosis which has not been proven to be autoimmune but I have my suspicions

Hi All,
I am thinking of starting the abx CAP soon.
My question is what are the symptoms associated with the bacteria dying off? Do the sx manifest themselves as new MS like sx or as fatigue or something else?


L x

Hi all, My feet have been numb for 5 days (the tops of them as opposed to the underneath) anyway I decided to stick them in ice cold water twice for 10 mins and the numbness seems to be wearing off a bit (even if it only lasts for an hour or 2 I am happy I have had some sort of effect) Anyone else t...

My understanding of a cure is finding the cause and removing the cause therefore you know for sure it has gone. I don't know if they will ever find a "cure" for MS but I certainly think they will find ways of stopping its progression and maybe even be able to reverse some of the damage don...

Hi Alex, I don't know that much about elastase but I know that when it was thought that I had CFS/ME for 13 years my levels were tested by a Dr in Brussels and it was way too high. This is one of the things he follows to monitor the CFS/ME's response to treatment. On my last blood tests it said &quo...