Stem cell therapy with MS

[Catholic_Lady]

So you're not a fan of taking stem cells from embryos?

No, because it destroys them.

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My neurologist thinks I have this horrible condition called trigeminal neuralgia. I'm hoping the MRI says otherwise. Anyway, I talked to another woman who has it, and she had stem cell treatment done in Australia for it. It worked. I have no idea how. Most people who have it have a blood vessel interfering with the main nerve in the face. She must have had some other factor going on. Stem cells are totally the good shit.

Wow Shell, that sounds super stressful. 

Keep us updated if you feel up to it. I'll be hoping for the best for you. Hopefully it's nothing.

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You're about 10 years behind the times, C/L.  In the past, stem cells were extracted from "leftover embryos" from people who underwent fertility treatments.  Such transfer was always done with the consent of the donors.  Far from being young human beings these were embryos that no one had any further use for and which would have been discarded.

Now stem cells are extracted from the hosts themselves.  The primary benefit is that since the cells are part of the body the odds of rejection are substantially reduced.  As I noted above, we did this with a dog and no puppies were harmed in the process.

Yeah, I know they aren't used anymore but figured that's what Ham meant when he asked if I was against stem cell research.