MS- The Eye - Warning Signs - MS Always Active

[sllowe]

Hi All!

I found this spectacular article while researching an Optha for myself and my family.  

To me, it's basically written by O.D.'s for O.D.'s and it discusses the importance of diagnosing ON among other disorders in a timely fashion and the significance.  What you'll find particularly important, as I did is, how it also describes what Doc Q has been teaching us all along -- That MS is ALWAYS Active!

Please, I provided only an excerpt below, and there is SO much more than what I've copied here.  Please do your best friends to get through the entire article as it validates (not that we ever doubted) our Dear Quixy, her teachings, her guidance, her support, her beliefs, and theories! Thank you for all the time you take to put things in lamens terms, or technical terms when we need it most.

http://www.revoptom.com/index.asp?page=2_820.htm

{Excerpt}     Most MS patients have RR-MS; that is, the patient experiences episodes of symptomatic disease activity followed by a return to normal function. Even during the remission phase of RR-MS, there is progressive disease activity, as evidenced by serial neuroimaging studies.7,8 Over time the level of neurological function may gradually worsen followed by shortened remission periods and ultimately leading to a course of progressive neurological disability without remission (SP-MS).

MS is a continuously active and progressive disease process on a cellular level. Clinicians traditionally have viewed MS as myelin degeneration with preservation of the core axons. However, this does not fully explain the clinical course of MS, particularly the long-term disability of secondary-progressive MS.

Current models of demyelination hold that acute inflammation results in destruction of the myelin sheaths. This is followed by some degree of tissue repair that corresponds to the relapsing-remitting course of MS.9-11

Even during periods of clinical remission, however, there is ongoing disease activity. The eventual result: permanent destruction of individual axons and the clinical presentation of secondary-progressive MS.7 So, early identification of demyelinating activity with timely intervention may significantly delay or prevent the resultant disability of CDMS
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Note: The numbers at the end of the paragraph (i.e. 9-11) are the footnotes.  It's important to look those up too, as you will be able to read an except of the study finding that is related to the sources used in this article.  It's an excellent research tool to narrow down searches to names of articles/studies, etc. for your future readings, studying.

Love you all,
Shelly

[Farrahlicious]

Thanks, girl!
even tho i have been feeling great, when you are already dx, the ghost of the next attack is always lurking. It's like that evil monkey in the closet in Family Guy (yes, i know, but i love the show!) I guess it's time to make a new appointment with the good (and hot!) eye Dr, before my right eye pops out and starts a life of its own. I swear sometimes i feel it trying to make a run for it... that would be a shame, it's the only one that works!
hugs to everyone!
Farrah

[sllowe]

Bump!

[michael1028]

Thank you so much for the post I am off to read it now. I still have terrible eye problems. unfortunately no answers. Surprise, suprise. Take care girl. Thanks again.
Mike

[doni54]

Thanks shell, that was a really good article.  Hope you had a good day.

Love & Hugs
doni

[jensequitur]

See if you can find that post of Heather's.  Basically her neuro told her that axons are being severed, even when you're in remission.  This means that we're all progressing, some slower, some quicker.

[floridamom2]

Thanks so much for sharing this with us all!!  

You are so right, Quix is a godsend to me and this forum!
Hugs!
Kristin