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This is how I feel about my relapse 2 mos ago, 5 mos postprocedurally:
Since my brain is sooo scarred after 10 years of MS, is it the case that a combination of mental and physical strain (which has always bothered me) just heat up the brain pathways and the network has to burst somewhere???
Just like traffic congestion...
Or my logic is just an attempt to comfort myself and justify CCSVI as plausible condition causing MS...

What you mention is a very real possibility. Did your "relapse" involve ONLY re visitation of past symptoms or were there new symptoms, symptoms in new areas involved?

Nasti wrote:This is how I feel about my relapse 2 mos ago, 5 mos postprocedurally:
Since my brain is sooo scarred after 10 years of MS, is it the case that a combination of mental and physical strain (which has always bothered me) just heat up the brain pathways and the network has to burst somewhere???
Just like traffic congestion...
Or my logic is just an attempt to comfort myself and justify CCSVI as plausible condition causing MS...

Well, it was an exacerbation actually, old symptom, but it was as difficult as before.

Nasti wrote:Well, it was an exacerbation actually, old symptom, but it was as difficult as before.

MedicineNet.com wrote:Exacerbation: A worsening. In medicine, exacerbation may refer to an increase in the severity of a disease or its signs and symptoms. For example, exacerbation of asthma is one of the serious effects of air pollution..

MedicineNet.com wrote:Relapse: The return of signs and symptoms of a disease after a patient has enjoyed a remission.

It's ironic that you make the distinction between "relapse" and "Exacerbation" because I've always considered them different words for the same thing but just today when going through old posts I noticed a forgotten 2006 conversation I had about this very subject.

It "seems" you were right the first time when you said "relapse" and from what I can tell over the years it seems to be generally accepted that sickness, tiredness, stress seems to highlight the reduced neural capacity caused by MS damage does and doesn't seem to denote continued progression....at least not always.

Sadly, pretty unsure like everything involving MS.

Nasti, hope you're feeling better now. I don't know what the explanation is. But if you've established good blood flow, you've done all that can be done for now. I think there will be more answers in the next year or couple years ahead, for what that's worth.

Ive had ms for 10 years now and really just 2 attacks. Both of them were at times of large stress, when family member's died and such. So I think ms is caused by ccsvi, which puts your immune system into a state where it is susceptible to stresses and intangibles that have to be dealt with. Otherwise, if I get flakey in my management I can spiral into a cascade of of negatives, which is stupid and avoidable...
Now if the ccsvi is gone, is your immune system still in an inflamed state? Dunno, there is a lot of damage that's been done that needs immunity to deal with...(or maybe the non-scarred kind)

so if there's still a battle on then stresses can effect it? maybe.