Dear Friends and Family ( Read more... )

No purple hair, no shaves head, no threats, no begging ( Read more... )

I have not posted in a while so lets just post a dandy little post ( Read more... )

Nearly 700 lab animals die after power outage
Mice, rats, rabbit succumb to 105-degree temps in Ohio State facility


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You're in the doctor's office for a check up. He asks you to read the eye chart, but some letters are a bit blurry to you. You think "no big deal", since your vision has been getting more and more blurry over the years. Your doc recommends you see and optometrist where you get fitted for a pair of glasses. You spend hours trying to figure out which ( Read more... )

Here's another possibility. I was thinking back to my former home in the SF Bay Area and specifically to the time Chloramine was introduced into our drinking water. Feb 2004 was when this happened and I remember my daughter's fish floating in its bowl the next day after a water change. My daughter followed the usual steps in changing water by ( Read more... )

So I posted the alcohol survey in the MS forum of BrainTalk Communities last night. The response was quick and negative as you can see by following this link: http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/showthread.php?t=126063. As you can see I was quickly banned. This is not the first time I have encountered people who seem irrational in their paranoia/ ( Read more... )

Please reply with your answers: (Format your answers as A1, A2, A3, etc)

Q1: Have you been diagnosed with MS
(If you answer NO to this question the only respond to Q2 (ignoring the part about being diagnosed) and Q3))

Q2: Prior to being diagnosed with MS, how many days per week did you consume alcoholic beverages

Q3: On the days that you did consume ( Read more... )

So this community is about one thing and one thing only...understanding what causes MS. I believe that everyone with MS has something in common, and the trick is to figure out what that could be. It may be just one thing or several things, the only way we can ever know what that commonality might be, is through the careful examination of our ( Read more... )

The night before my first and current MS attack, I had been drinking. I had consumed quite a bit of alcohol, prob equivalent to 10 drinks. I did an informal survey in another MS related community about drinking and smoking. I had a number of responses but in two cases, the individuals volunteered additional information...specifically that they had ( Read more... )