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Hi!

If we dont stick together and fight for ourselves, no-one else will. Its only by talking to eachother, swapping ideas, deliberating and debating as a group we become more powerful than anyone.

There is a whole host of different people on here from cleaners to professors, an ms diagnosis has no prejudices, it affects anyone at anytime. or does it, are certain people exempt, if you are born and bred in the East with Eastern values with no Western intervention at all i.e psychological stress or physical trauma by vehicle accident. could you fall prey to it.

I just want you all to know. I will fight for those answers, I wont shut up, sit down and be quiet. I have the strength to fight while others do not.

I know my own answers and I am fixable. I'm not saying everyone is the same as me, but I do not stand alone. I know I dont.

Fiona

this is a interesting idea, a new thread focused on any previous neck trauma, what happened, and how long ago. good idea?

Hi!



We may not all agree on one subject, but by talking something that we havent thought of before may suddenly make sense.


Sunnee

With Upper Cervical Care, i never thought i would ever lose my heat sensitivity or my lower back pain or have bladder control. UCC and CCSVI surgery is the most hope ever had with MS

civickiller - I found that Low dose Naltrexone (LDN), totally cleared my bladder/bowel problems, heat intolerance, weak posture (ie giving way in the middle when standing at a bench), and most thankfully, the gross fatigue that sent me to sleep all day.

4-Aminopyridine (4-AP) significantly help leg weakness.

Treatment for TOS (I see you have asked about treatment method for that), resolved arm/hand problems, neck tension & remarkably, balance.

Have had angioplasty for CCSVI three times, and the last time was by far the best. The IR did it differently (don't know the technical details), but he said, "I'm getting better at it".
Symptoms relieved - ice cold hands & feet, burning feet at night, bad falls every day, dry skin, extreme fatigue, getting blown over in a breeze (literally), swollen ankles & feet & wooziness when looking down.

In the last couple of months, I have found that I can use just a cane, as opposed to an elbow crutch, can walk without touching walls (but with a Walkaide on my right leg), and feel just so well.

I can't directly attribute this to CCSVI or TOS treatment, maybe it is a bit of both... but I am definitely improving, albeit bit, by bit.

Tracker,

What is TOS?

I come from UK and not familiar with the term.

Thanx

Sunnee

theres TOS(Thoracic Outlet Syndrome) which i believe is bones compressing veins and arteries in the upper chest area
then theres CTOS (Cerebellum Thoracic Outlet Syndrome) same thing as TOS just in the neck

which i believe can be corrected by Upper Cervical Care in majority cases

normally it develops, it has some kind of outside force moving the bones, trauma or shifting of bone as with upper cervical misalignments effects the whole spine

i looked into this as i was thinking of going to cali for TOS and i was consider going to spain for CTOS but then i found UCC which i could do locally and makes more sense

Civickiller

is this it
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Neck and brain transitory vascular compression causing neurological complications. Results of surgical treatment on 1,300 patients.
Fernandez Noda EI, Nuñez-Arguelles J, Perez Fernandez J, Castillo J, Perez Izquierdo M, Rivera Luna H.
Source

Hato Rey Community Hospital, Puerto Rico 00918, USA.
Abstract

In this brief article we describe the role of compression of the vertebral subclavian arteries, internal mammary, internal carotid arteries, brachial plexus and coiling and kinking of the vertebral and basilar arteries, the faulty irrigation of blood supply and oxygen of the cerebellum and basal ganglia of the brain. Among the effects are: a decrease in the secretion of dopamine at the level of the putamen, which produces the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, and chorea due to chronic transitory faulty blood supply and oxygen to the caudate nucleus, ballism by hypoxia at the level of subthalamic nuclei and athetosis in the lenticular nucleus. This compression is caused by the anterior scalene muscles and the cervical ribs at the level of the vertebrae C6-C7; by the sternocleidomastoid at the level of the cervical atlas; and coiling and kinking of the vertebral, basilar and the internal carotid arteries. The decreased blood supply to the cerebellum and basal ganglia is the cause of the Cerebellar Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (CTOS) and its neurological complications, among which are ipsilateral paralysis, Parkinson disease and others. We are presently engaged in several studies to widen our understanding of this phenomenon.


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thanx something else I've learnt today.

Sunnee