My wife was diagnosed with MS by the foremost MS expert in the intermountain west. She was put on a regimen of expensive MS drugs to little benefit and extensive side effects. At one point, she went to a seminar for MS sufferers and the main speaker was the MS expert. His presentation focused on the benefit of drugs he prescribed for her. A bit of research revealed he was paid a couple hundred $K annually to “consult” for the drug manufacturer.
After a year of the drug regimen and no benefit, her research led her to investigate CCSVI as the cause of her symptoms rather than MS. Against the “expert” physician’s advice and actually hostile reception to treatment for CCSVI, we traveled to another state to get treatment for CCSVI. Her symptoms were completely relieved by the treatment (off-label use of stents in veins as opposed to FDA approved use of stents in arteries).
If she had simply followed the advice and treatment provided by the “expert” physician who limited his practice to treating MS patients, she’d likely be in a wheelchair now, 15 years after he first saw her. Blindly following “experts” of any stripe is a fool’s errand; individual research and personal involvement in medical treatment isn’t just a good idea, it’s mandatory if you’re at all interested in the best possible outcome.
Good for your wife for being relentless and advocating for herself! Glad she's doing well!
Thanks. And by the way, when you mention vitamins and supplements as generating expensive urine, you should differentiate between water-soluble and fat-suluble. Very important differences between the two.
You're welcome. That is almost going too deep into the subject and it isn't as simple as saying water vs fat soluble. For instance, zinc is insoluble, but we don't take zinc, we take zinc citrate. Magnesium becomes water soluble when its combined with oxygen in the bloodstream after absorption. ADEK is the acronym for fat-soluble vitamins which are not the vitamins largely being touted as the "cures" for COVID with the exception of D, which is a whole other topic indeed.
