Blood brain barrier

[Akcowboy]

  After reading some of my old med records, and my old MRI from 94 and reread it and it said that I had damaged my blood brain barrier and there is a close ties to having ms in lab rats and too think I had some prof back then but nothing was done at the time and now things have been getting WAY worst and I'm going down to my pdoc with this info Monday and get a new MRI

  And to think that when I was at the ER on Tuesday for cluster headaches the Er doc was talking to my pdoc about the possibilities of having MS with all the symptoms I had real tic's me off and could of had an MRI done at that time but just had an cat scan instead Errrrrrrrrr. And trust me you do not want cluster headaches /aka the suicide headache and I'm going to start going to a new doc real soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  Cowboy

[Heather3418]

My Neuro, just last week, advised against Tysabri; although it is a drug with promise, because researchers do not know enough about it's long term side effects.  

I had thought about taking this drug myself, but she advised against it.  Jon, what IS the dark side of Tysabri....

Heather

[JonM]

Look at the medicine Tysabri.  It targets at restoring the Blood Brain Barrier and has the best improvement numbers of all treatments.  However it has a dark side and unknown long term effects.

[Akcowboy]

  Just a little info on the blood brain barrier and MS

[Akcowboy]

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is considered an auto-immune disorder in which the immune system attacks the myelin protecting the nerves in the central nervous system. Normally, a person's nervous system would be inaccessible for the white blood cells due to the blood-brain barrier. However, it has been shown using Magnetic Resonance Imaging that, when a person is undergoing an MS "attack," the blood-brain barrier has broken down in a section of his/her brain or spinal cord, allowing white blood cells called T lymphocytes to cross over and destroy the myelin. It has been suggested that, rather than being a disease of the immune system, MS is a disease of the blood-brain barrier. However, current scientific evidence is inconclusive.

There are currently active investigations into treatments for a compromised blood-brain barrier. It is believed that oxidative stress plays an important role into the breakdown of the barrier; anti-oxidants such as lipoic acid may be able to stabilize a weakening blood-brain barrier[8].

[sllowe]

Akcowboy,

I'm glad to see you are pursuing an updated MRI.  I'm not in the know nearly enough about the blood brain barrier, and am not a Dr., but, I do believe that some things just aren't suppose to get through, (certain cells, infections, etc) and gain access to your central nervous system.   I think the word barrier itself says a lot - barrier.

I wish you the best with the new DR, and hopes for a speedy appt. for an MRI.

Be well,
SL

[BondyinOz]

Oh geez, that is just ridiculous - the doc had to GOOGLE your symptoms?!!! Talk about amateur hour!

I get cluster headaches too - they're the worst!!! Like migraine strength pain every day for me, so lucky they're not so bad at the moment.

Mel :-)

[Akcowboy]

  Oh and to think that the ER doc had to goole my symptoms and most of it came up with MS