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Old 11-26-2009, 07:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Riverwild View Post
Maybe it has to do with this part of the theory?

"...Zamboni found blockages not only in the veins in the neck directly beneath the brain -- the jugular veins --but in a central drainage vein, the azygos vein, which flushes blood down from the brain along the spine. Blockages here, he found were associated with the most severe form of MS, primary progressive, in which patients rapidly deteriorate. For this form of MS, there currently is no effective treatment..."
Not all of us with spinal lesions have a severe form, are primary progressive or rapidly deteriorating. This just sounds like more of the standard beliefs and impressions that, for some, are not true.

Too many years with this disease and a major skeptic
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