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From: Harry.London@f1000.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Harry London)
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Subject: Re: DOCTORS/MS
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Date: 28 Feb 91 02:07:31 GMT
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 JB> have received by the persons with MS that I know.
 JB> Also as MS can be set off by a traumatic experience, it does seem to
 JB> be it, as I did experience such an occurence in 1982 when my wife
 JB> needed surgery, and one month later my son was in a car accident, and
 JB> sustained a major head injury.
Hello, Jean-Pierre...
 ...interesting that you mention a non-related traumatic experice as a
possible trigger for MS. I know that in my case 1987 started with my
brother's being hit by a pick up truck, and my visiting him in the
hospital every day, and then watching him get in to the nujrsing home
process, and decline and decline and decline. Then in mid 1987 diagnosis
of coronary artery disease treated by a successful angioplasty. The right
leg began dragging in late 87, without a diagnosis, unti early 1989 when
mri showed a marked widening of thel spinal cord at T-10. My wife and I
were both attuned to the impact of other events on health, and often
wondered whether the early stresses set off what has basically been
labeled as an inflammatory process in the spinal cord, not tumor, not
sarcoid, not cyst. Except for the difference in terminology I am as
frustrated about my lack of pinpointed diagnosis as you are, and I can
well understand how you feel. Keep the faith.
Best,
   Harry

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