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with the symptoms i have from my ms, and then the ones that come and go i’ve often wondered if i would recognise the symptoms of a stroke…. has anyone here had a stroke? has anyone else had this thought? i’ve read the symptoms of a stroke and some of the warning signs sound just like my ms….. just curious about this….. dory There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that its rather hard to discern which of us ought to reform the rest of us…..Alain Fournier

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years ago when i lost the left half of my body, it never occured to me that it could have been a stroke.  my wife thought i was crazy waiting for her to wake up before calling doctor.  it really never occured to me.  now after 2 heart attacks always wonder at the problems still affecting my left side. basically i will only know a stroke by feel and not rational thought.  but who wants life to be predictable.        jude perchance to dream the water free http://www.geocities.com/waher/ <QQ…@webtv.net> wrote in message

news:1344-42433C2B-108@storefull-3133.bay.webtv.net… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> with the symptoms i have from my ms, and then the ones that come and go > i’ve often wondered if i would recognise the symptoms of a stroke…. > has anyone here had a stroke? has anyone else had this thought? i’ve > read the symptoms of a stroke and some of the warning signs sound just > like my ms….. just curious about this….. dory > There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of > us that its rather hard to discern which of us ought to reform the rest > of us…..Alain Fournier

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i guess i wonder about a stroke but don’t worry about one is because i a woke with my right side paralized.. i told my dad, and he said you probably had a minor stroke… i was 18 at the time with two little boys. years later i learned it was ms…. and i thought my relapeses were more minor strokes…… dory ……." There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that its rather hard to discern which of us ought to reform the rest of us"………..                       ………Alain Fournier………

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QQ…@webtv.net wrote: > i guess i wonder about a stroke but don’t worry about one is because i a > woke with my right side paralized..

hi dory, my LAST relapse affected my entire right side, but my first one (‘initial episode’) involved the entre LEFT side. i’d been having symptoms that i’d been ignoring, and other symptoms that i didn’t recognize WERE symptoms until much later. when i started driving funny, i thought it was because the steering on my old beater car was going out. when i was exhausted, i thought i’d slept poorly, and slugged back the coffee. when i started having urinary frequency and urgency, i figured it was because of all the coffee. when i’d reach for a doorknob and miss, i’d shake my head and wonder if i was coming down with somthing. i started making tons of typos while typing, and figured i DEFINITELY must be coming down with something. the numbness started with my left hand and spread all the way up the arm. we’d had a phony bomb threat phoned into the office, and everyone on the floor had to walk down 22 flights of steps — i figured maybe i’d pinched a nerve, or the walking had done something, and went around shaking my left hand and arm around to try to bring the circulation back. then i had a spell of vertigo and actually hit the floor, in front of my boss and co-workers. the boss insisted that one of the guys drive me to the hospital. at the hospital, they gave me a CAT scan and a referral to a neurologist. i kept his card but did’t make the appt., because i figured if the CT scan was clear, nothing serious was wrong. when the left-side numbness continued spreading, from my arm to my leg and then even the left side of my face, THAT’S when i made the appt. with the neuro — because i was afraid i might be HAVING a stroke! nope, turned out tobe M.S. oh well! if the numbness had abated instead of increasing, i’m sure i’d never have made that appointment, not until it got to the point where it couldn’b be ignored or explained away. now my left side is my ‘good’ side, but at the beginning it was the trouble spot! rose

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Based on some report I read a long time ago about doctors detecting blood moving into the area of an active lesion a day or to prior to the lesion actually lighting up with gadolinium I would definitely associate MS with breakdown of the BBB and possibly term the allowing of blood cells into the brain as TIA’s (Transient Eschemic Attacks) basically stokes.  If you are not worried about drug interactions or cancer then you could supplement Folic Acid to prevent strokes.  This should be done anyway if you are taking additional B12. The cautions about Folic Acid are that it causes many many drugs to work much better than they normally would and therefor increases their potency. Many cancers have special cells that require use of folic acid and you can actually feed a cancer tumor by taking additional folic acid.  A lot of cancer chemotherapy drugs such as Methotrexate (Also expermentally tried out for MS)  are specifically Folic acid antagonists (There are many ways to do this but usually they block the receptors on the cells by fillin up the slots so folic acid cannot be used) The great wonderful news about Folic Acid based on the NUNS study.  A health history of all the Nuns in North America in the last half of the 20th century.  Those Nuns with the largest amount of circulating folic acid in their serum blood samples lived the longest lives and had the least number of health or memory or neurological problems. <QQ…@webtv.net> wrote in message

news:1344-42433C2B-108@storefull-3133.bay.webtv.net… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> with the symptoms i have from my ms, and then the ones that come and go > i’ve often wondered if i would recognise the symptoms of a stroke…. > has anyone here had a stroke? has anyone else had this thought? i’ve > read the symptoms of a stroke and some of the warning signs sound just > like my ms….. just curious about this….. dory > There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of > us that its rather hard to discern which of us ought to reform the rest > of us…..Alain Fournier

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