Hi Beary,
So you heard it too?!?!? There is no telling what the truth is about getting MS. It may be from many different things affecting people. There are so many illness's that have no explanation.
My best friend's grandson, who had the kidney transplant in April, has a kidney disease that is supposed to be genetic but no one in the family has it.
I have no one in my family that we know of that has MS. My best friend and I were diagnosed within 2 years of each other. She has Lupus and I have MS and we lost touch for those years and couldn't believe it when we spoke to each other. We had gone through the same tests ruling out different diseases. There is no history of Lupus in her family either.
We have been friends for 35 years and partied when we were younger but never dated the same guy. She has been married most of the time we have been friends. She has always lived in the county and I've always lived in the city. We really have nothing in common but laugh all the time about how we can't figure out how we have stayed best friends all these years without one fight.
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Originally Posted by Bearygood
I had never heard of the distemper theory until someone posted on another message board I frequent.
It was pretty uncanny -- the poster and his wife were dxed with MS at just about the same time. They each had different neurologists and the husband's doctor noted when taking his history that the couple had been exposed to an animal with distemper and told him about a link.
Distemper aside, I remember that the couple had been together since their teenage years so it doesn't seem unreasonable that they both encountered SOME external thing that was the same.
Within the next six months another new poster came to the board saying that his wife had been dxed not long after his own dx. He couldn't believe it. No mention of distemper from that couple but it's still sure curious in terms of a potential common external influence.
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