Stem cell therapy with MS

[I_am_not_mafia]

Good for you. How are the sx effecting your quality of life? Had to make any significant changes? 

Keep it to yourself if needed.

Thanks

Only symptoms I really have left is the diminished sensation in my fingers but I can still type quickly. It means that it's too painful to play a stringed instrument like a guitar, or feel where the holes are on a keyless flute. Suddenly losing my ability to type made me realise how my entire career is dependent upon it. I get other symptoms like itching sometimes but that's more of a nuisance really. I don't really suffer fatigue anymore because I walk about 3 miles each way getting to work and back. Vitamins also help with fatigue.

It's incredibly difficult to know whether symptoms are getting better or worse sometimes, because they are affected by temperature, tiredness and how well you are adapting to them.

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They can only give you stem cells that you already have. They extract it from one part of your body (like bone marrow) and inject it where it needs to be. My basic understanding is that cells spawn new differentiated cells over time which are more specialised than them. Stem cells can grow any other more specialised cell. But once you lose all your stem cells you don't have too much longer left to live.

On the other hand, if your body is attacking itself and not ever properly healing again, your quality of life starts to degrade much faster anyway so it's always a compromise.

This may be what you can get in the US.  But they are doing stuff with umbilical cords down in Panama that is not what you are describing.

Interesting thanks. I didn't know that the had started harvesting stem cells from donated umbilical cords. Btw, I live in the UK.