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Lyon wrote:

All this CCSVI hubbub has caused a lot of the regulars who are interested in objective science rather than the science of "wishful thinking" to go from posting to PMing each other...

People are still around but the lurkers are now posters and the posters are now lurkers.

Whew! What a relief! And I had begun to think that in some way it was my fault! (Seriously - things seemed to really slow down as soon as I started my recent posting here.) My thoughts became not only "laden with stress" but with paranoia (as well as self-importance ). I wondered - do my posts piss people off in general? Bore them to death? Is my irreverent sense of humor an affront to the sensibilities of those who may no longer have one? Does my joking show disrespect for the gravity of the disease? Does my disdain for meds in general make my knowledge and research suspect? Do I just talk too damn much?

Was a whispering campaign against me passing via PM amongst the long-time posters (hmmm, now I'm actually starting to wonder about that...)
But no, the blame apparently lies squarely on CCSVI and not me.

I recently returned to forum posting in general after an extended hiatus, and intentionally migrated to this forum, gamely throwing myself straight into posting rather than lurking, coincidentally at the same time as the CCSVI explosion. I had always thought of this site as one with both intelligence and humor although, in the past, I could never adapt to the complex, multi-forum format enough to do much posting here. I'm still working on that. Hope it's not too late to make some friends, though. Aw hell, that probably won't stop me anyway – I've never been much of a lurker, and I'm too dumb to avoid a good fray.

But I do appreciate that here it's open-minded enough to include many forums - for all types of attitudes and ideas about MS, so thank you for that. And I haven't received a single lecture yet for not doing any drugs. Or for my colorful vocabulary. Please, everyone - keep posting, debating, and smiling.