MS polls

05-22-09 I am always curious how my fellow MS patients feel about certain topics. If you frequent my website then you know I wholeheartedly believe that diet can make a huge impact on MS symptoms. The human bloodprint blood test just confirmed my beliefs. Of course we all have to make up our own minds, and consult your health care professional. I first want to get an idea if any of you would be interested in taking future polls by PollDaddy.com. My brain is not nimble enough to figure out how to make a poll by myself that is why I use PollDaddy. The polls are set up so they can only be taken once per computer (IP) address. I will not have access to your email address, I'm just curious what others think about certain topics. The first poll will be to find out if there are others who would like to participate in future polls. My energy level is getting better but I do not want to waste what energy I have on this poll page if there are really not many people who are interested in participating. I will leave this poll up for 2 months. Thanks for letting me know. ~ Lisa

09-10-08 I have tried to figure out how to make a poll on FrontPage from scratch, but I could not quite grasp what I needed to do so I have opted to use PollDaddy.com. I'm sure if you are a regular visitor to my site you are aware that I now fully believe that eating non inflammatory foods has everything to do with keeping MS symptoms at bay. It is a lifestyle change that is for certain, the hardest thing I have ever done including 22 hours of labor. I wish one of my doctors, especially Neurologists would have known about this when I was 13. I now believe after doing some further research about if doctors are required a certain amount of nutrition hours in order to receive their MD license, that Nutrition is not necessarily required, so that now makes sense to me that they may not know about inflammatory foods. How could they suggest something that they do not know about? It just seems to me after reading the books of people who claim cure from MS through dietary measures only, that just seems way too coincidental for it to not have some truth. I've been in contact with many, many MS patients who don't believe diet will make a difference, I also was one of those people for 20+ years. The average recovery time appears to be around 4 years. I'm trying to be realistic though, for instance my balance has been shot since 1984, will that come back with diet alone I have not idea. However I am getting the feeling back in my hands & feet, as well as my brain fog is lifting.

Yes, I have also been fortunate enough be to able to add the Immunosyn Vaccine the one that Alan Osmond has used. My last injection was on June 24th so I have been only using diet to help curb inflammation since then. I've been under enormous personal stress 'another source of inflammation' and my legs are a bit weaker. I'm just taking it easy and not over doing my walking so for now I do use the wheelchair a bit more so I don't fall and hurt myself especially when it is dark. I sure notice the difference now that I am not using the Immunosyn, that stuff is hands down better than prednisone or any ABC drug I have tried! I'm not in the loop but I believe the trials are over and it could possibly be FDA approved sometime in '09. It will be so nice when it is available to all. I'm hoping that between my dietary changes of eating anti inflammatory foods and the vaccine that maybe I can heal up a bit quicker. My hope is that it will so that other MS patents can follow this path and heal a bit quicker. My GP is on board with the dietary changes, he absolutely believes in that. I apologize if some of the things I talk about sound like a broken record, this is my soap box because I am living the results, my friend Scot died very young from this crappy disease. He was a slim man but did eat some highly inflammatory foods, heck so did I, I just know better now. I don't want to see another MS patient die because of this nonfatal disease! If you take this on it could be very difficult, it was for me but I'm getting used to it because I can see subtle changes. That is what you should be looking for, 'that something feels different' feeling. At some point it will become more apparent to you 'what it is that is different'. Here is one of my experiences example. I just had that something feels different feeling, I felt that maybe my balance was a little better. I didn't feel like I was slightly moving left to right as I felt I had been doing since '84 when my mom stopped by that was also her impression. Of course this is just subjective, but I thought I should give an idea of what I'm talking about when I say subtle changes.

So my first poll/survey will be about your thoughts on diet & MS. The other reason I went with PollDaddy is I wanted to try to have the surveys set so that the same computer can't keep taking the poll. I would really like to try to get a feel from different MS patients how they feel about MS & diet changes, and this way at least the results won't be from one person only. I have never done polls before so this will probably be a work in progress.

Definitely a work in progress, I'll try to have one up very soon my brain hurts! :)