I forgot about that MS stuff! My 'neck story' involves my deciding to do neck stretches because I had so much tightness in my upper back and neck area. After a week or so I started nauseous - VERY nauseous - a couple of hours after each stretch. Then my chemical sensitivities just went through the roof."
Cort---others, I have been revisiting the stenosis link lately as rereading about OI as I was dx with both cerv stenosis and OI in the 90s, but havent had luck with the medications/tx they recommend, just me being super cautious about what I do, lying down proactively intermittently daily and getting cranial sacral conservatively in past helped over time somewhat.
Here is my question----Could Zamboni artery thing tie into CErvical stenosis bone and canal thing? I dont know enough about bio etc to make that leap, it came in my mind when I read about him and CCSVI but I thought perhaps I was mistaken to think it could be all related as I didnt see "specialists" bringing up the question which seemed obvious to me, but I have rudimentary understanding of med anatomy etc I was really curious when I saw the Zamboni research with MS because of my neck issues and I have always felt that my neck is one of the keys in my CFS stuff (am xmrv+ too)
Cheney had told me the one time consulted him that he felt a cfs virus could inflame spine and cause some of the symptoms seen with stenosis, worsen it and that may be why surgery failed in some of those cases when all the bad press around FM and surgery happened like 9 years ago with Heffez and Rosner and scared neurosurgeons away I guess til now perhaps? glad to read that Dr Wood says a re-look at stenosis and FM is happening which is good as I hve never understood why that wouldnt be an obvious place to focus energy if mri-proven with symptoms, geeesh. I can see why some peeps did poorly with surgery tho for that and chiari cus the viral aspect wasnt addressed. Everyone specializes and compartmentalizes and then wonders why treatment fails a lot of the time, they dont always look at how all these symptoms interact....ie spine and virus.