Hi all -
I just got off the phone with a woman who lives near me. She has MS and is headed to Stanford Medical Center on Monday to have a vascular surgery with Dr. Michael Dake. He's a professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and the director of the Catherization and Angiography Laboratory there. He's conducting a study of twelve MS patients who have bilateral occlusions of their jugular veins . In these patients collateral veins form creating an alternate pathway through which the blood flows from the brain. It;s called Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI). Doesn't this sound somewhat similar to MM, except that the blood flow is in the opposite direction, out of the brain instead of into the brain?

Here's the link to the MS Support Group's topic where there is a discussion about CCSVI. Note the discussion about headaches.
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What if the cause for these venous blockages is similar to the cause of our arterial blockages? I wonder if Dr. Dake and Dr. Steinberg are communicating?

It's curious too that Seattle tends to have more MS and MM patients than other parts of the country.
Kim

Hmmmm, I dunno... lack of Vitamin D? All those rainy gray days, maybe we're rusting from the inside out  .
I sent an email to Nadia asking if Dr. Dake and Dr. Steinberg are working together. I'll let you know when she writes back.
Kim