gainsbourg wrote:...
I know all this idea about herpes and CCSVI may sound a bit loopy but remember, the whole CCSVI thing only came about because a few lone voices challenged the "experts" who were all telling us that MS was simply an autoimmune illness.
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Not all of them - remember that Zamboni himself thinks there may be a CCSVI/herpes link, also neurologist Dr. Stephen Brenner.
gains
That doesn't sound loopy to me at all, then again, a lot of people think that I am loopy. I prefer to call it crazy wisdom.
The auto-immune thing has just never added up to me, and I have always thought that there was a bacteriological/virological (Giardia, measles, amoebic dysentery, chicken pox...) or parasitic factor (spirochete, worms, fungal...).
There is a high measure of measles in the MS gut; mal-absorption factors in the MS digestive tract, links to Lyme disease, etc. The first things ruled out in my MS Dx were syphilis, and Lyme - both spirochete infections, though the Lyme seems hard to pin down either way.
I'm not yet convinced that CCSVI is congenital. Venous angiomae are supposedly congenital, but in the same breath I was told that, I was asked about blows to my head. I now have a second venous angioma in my brain, that was not there when I was born, was not there at last MRI in 2008, but is there now in 2010 MRI. And, no blows to the head in the interregnum.