Posted on 10/18/2021 7:22:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
Is there a vaccine for Mono?
Interesting. Have 2 friends with MS.
MS is a terrible disease reserved only for the worst in the world.
Too bad so many good people get it.
I’ve had mono twice as a kid, 5 and 12. So far, no MS.
This is not a new thesis. Multiple Sclerosis is thought by many to be an autoimmune disease. That is to say the individual’s own immune system after some stimulus begins to react against their own tissue, erode it and cause disease. It is speculation with no documented experimental proofs to date. The theory is that an individual with the right predisposing genotype when exposed to a virus or bacteria, develop a destructive auto-immune response. Actually rheumatic fever, which destroys heart tissue is thought to be a autoimmune response to some strains of streptococcus. Many physicians believe that juvenile diabetes is an auto immune disease. A virus, with little or no symptoms, goes through a school or community, almost all get well but six to eight weeks later a genetically susceptible previously healthy child presents with diabetes.
As we now see with the COVID-19 pandemic, the future of Medicine will be centered on understanding genetics and the complexity of immunology.
I have one sister that was diagnosed in her 30’s and a co-worker that was also diagnosed in her 30’s with MS. Neither one has it now. It has mysteriously disappeared.
I am in the middle of this mess right now.
So hear me well.......if you think you might have an autoimmune disease please look into MRI contrast and educate yourself before getting that MRI with contrast
I am not saying don’t get the MRI. I am saying educate yourself well. Read the black box label FDA finally put on the contrast. And read about the wife of Chuck Norris
Also, DirectLabs has the ANA test as well as the one that tests for AMA
Oh and I did have Mono as young teenager.
Duchene’s M.D. is too, it can be early to late onset. My BIL has late, as does his brother who is younger but worse life style. BIL grandson has early onset, his brothers teen son, had it, but died in a car wreck. It is a Genetic disease, fatal too. Skipped his son. Goes down female line.
This sounds like another herpes virus.
Mononucleosis is a herpes virus called Epstein-Barr. If it reappears years later as multiple sclerosis then it is behaving like another herpes virus that uses a 2 part attack that responsible for chicken pox and later shingles, varicella-zoster.
Diagnosis is sketchy especially early in the progression. Plus, there is a remitting form of MS in which a person may become asymptomatic for periods of time. Hopefully your friends had a wrong dx, or at least the relapsing/remitting form, which is more treatable than the straight progressive illness.
Watch for reports of sudden onset of MS in covid vaxxinated people….
Anecdotally being reported
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I had allergic reaction to the contrast dye. They made me take a benadryl before I could leave. I don’t do well on that stuff either. I hope there’s no unseen damage from that one instance.
Hey, if mononucleosis isn’t a global pandemic and existential crisis, I did a lot of kissing for nothing.
I read a study where they did a fecal transplant into 3 MS patients. All three got better and were restored in their ability to walk again. No profit for drug companies, of course, and the FDA won’t allow fecal transplants for MS.
When my sister was diagnosed she was so weak she couldn’t even get out of bed if one of her big dogs was on the bed with her. Now she does anything she wants to do.
The co-worker said her church had a prayer session for her and it went away. When she went for her checkup the doctor couldn’t find any sign of it. I hope it doesn’t come back for either of them.
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