Re: chronic lyme borreliosis at the root of MS?

"Specialsearcher" <specialsearcher@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:20050103081612.06439.00002338@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >What am I missing? Are they saying that a lot of people have it who
never
>>get ticks?
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> Its just that lyme can cause neuralgic symptoms a little like MS I
think.
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Sounds like someone is drawing wrong conclusions, then. There are other 
non-MS related health problems that make people suffer problems that SEEM
to 
be MS but upon investigation are something else entirely. Eg, brother in
law 
was losing the ability in one leg and had been getting pain in it that
would 
come and go. The pain would last days and he would sleep fitfully because
of 
it and thus become tired. It would go away for a bit and he would feel 
better, almost normal and it would come on again eventually. Sounds
familiar 
doesn't it? Well, he was on holidays and woke up early morning with 
incredible pain in the leg, tried to get up and could fight through the
pain 
to sit up in bed but tried to stand up and had no control of EITHER leg.
He 
fell to the floor and that caused massive lower back pain. An ambulance
took 
him to hospital where tests revealed he had bits growing into his spinal 
chord from his spine all stemming from a heavy accident to his back some
25 
years before that had him limping for weeks but seemed to get better with
no 
consequences. They did a "laminectomy" I think it is called, removing the 
spikes and after the spinal chord swelling went down, he had the ability
to 
walk once more though the leg that had been going funny before took years 
before it was OK enough for him to walk normally on and even nowadays
still 
occasionally flips like a fish on dry land for no reason.

Wouldn't it be nice if researchers like that one did a bit more research 
before letting out things like this?