[brmr19]

Here is a link to an article a friend forwarded to my. It is very interesting. https://ucstudies.wordpress.com/2012...ple-sclerosis/

[SallyC]

Originally Posted by brmr19

Here is a link to an article a friend forwarded to my. It is very interesting. https://ucstudies.wordpress.com/2012...ple-sclerosis/

Interesting theory and may indeed cause CFS leakage, but
IMO, is not THE cause of MS.... Otherwise why would MS
be hereditary? And it is!! I have MS and my DD has it too.
Unless we both had the same head trauma, at the same
time, and we didn't, or this theory is wrongo!!

Thanks for posting. All info is welcome.

[Juniebear]

I think this could be one of a few causes. I had a severe injury to the back of my head/neck when I was 15/16. I have kyphosis of my neck. Thinking back many of my symptoms started in my late teens but either I ignored it or it was contributed to other things.

As far as I know there is no history of MS in my family; however, my paternal grandfather's family is a complete unknown so it could be present and we just aren't aware of it.

[clarkstar]

yeah i saw this before. it IS interesting. but i never have had a head injury that i know of...

[TXBatman]

It just sounds like another one of these things where maybe there is a subset of patients Dxed with MS that actually don't have MS, but instead lingering damage from a head injury. The same can be said for the CCSVI theories...maybe the people being helped by it really didn't have MS, but instead a vascular condition with symptoms that mimiced MS? The autoimmune angle is just too well established for there to be some cause that is totally devoid of any autimmune processes.

[Erin524]

That's kind of interesting. I had a head injury when I was a baby (car accident, my car seat got whacked into the windshield of my mom's VW Bug. 1960's era VW Bug front seats weren't actually attached to the floor of the car).

I also had several concussions when I was growing up. One of those concussions also came with a very impressively painful case of whiplash. I wouldn't be surprised if head injuries had something to do with MS developing. But, I also think it's got a genetic component and a viral component too. I've got a 2nd cousin with MS, and I've also had shingles and mononucleosis (both at the same time). I've read that both shingles and mono both have something to do with MS. I just think I had the annoying luck of getting all the weird things that can potentially trigger MS.

[brmr19]

Just thought it was interesting. I had several bad car accident when I was a teen. I also had several concussions playing sports. I have nobody in my family history with MS, but there is another auto immune disease that is in my mothers family. I do want to try a new chiropractor that does the upper cervical adjustment.

[GladysD]

Just read it.

My illness had a strong coincidental timing to a car accident, that I did have. Car accident, summer of '99. First case of psoriasis by fall '99, and it was a pretty strange case of it, all over my legs and arms and then by March '00, my ON.

Strange coincidence. But doesn't explain, how everyone else got their MS.

[Lynn]

I really think it's a cocktail - I tick lots of boxes. I come from a cold climate, with lots of heavy metals in the atmosphere, I have a family history of autoimmune diseases (that is my brother - Bell's Palsy, sister and niece -Lupus/SLE and myself - MS and thrombocytopenia), I have always had lousy circulation and I also had a BAD case of adult chicken pox and teenage mono to boot.

I had lots of annoying, but transient symptoms for a number of years, but when I crashed and burned my way to a very speedy diagnosis I was in the grips of the most stressful event of my life - nursing my beloved mum through the last weeks of end stage cancer and then losing my job on top of that.

I think it's like a perfect storm - when all of the conditions are right BAM it happens.

Just my very humble opinion.