CCSVI
The new buzzword among MS-diagnosed and their friends and relatives.
CCSVI is an acronym for Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency - simply put, a stenosis, or narrowing, of one or more of the veins in the neck, causing pressure to build up in the brain, leading to brain barrier leaks. With red blood cells crossing the blood/brain barrier, the immune system goes bananas. Iron deposits (from the haemoglobin) in the brain is NOT a good thing.
An Italian doctor, Paolo Zamboni of Ferrara University, discovered this anomaly and named it. He tested a treatment - a simple balloon angioplasty - that immediately gave impressive results. Symptoms just disappeared.
Now I want to be checked for CCSVI too. Unfortunately, I won't be able to get this checked easily. It's very new (but research is underway) and only a simple Doppler test, but I’ve seen enough of the internal conflicts in the medical profession to know that when a possible treatment for a neurological disease is through a cardiologic procedure, neurologists are going to fight it (don't steal my patients!). I saw an interview with the most negative neurologist on Friday; he was so childish it's rather impressive. Anyway, back to me. I won't get this test soon (even if I go to a private clinic abroad it’s going to take time), and I don't feel like waiting when I could do something, so I tuned in, turning my attention inside, and tapped. I.e. I used EFT while asking myself - if I have CCSVI, then what lies beneath this malfunction? Which energy is it in my system that causes such a thing to happen? Why don’t I allow the blood to flow from my brain? And I got a very clear message on holding back, blocking the flow of divine energy through an energetic squeezing of my neck. Hold back! Don't want this! Or rather, don't want to accept that I have this, that the way I am made for some reason means I have a clear direct channel to the divine. It became very clear to me that this decision was one made in my childhood and adolescence. Life was hard enough, there was severe bullying, and I was not going to add a Jesus-like "I'm talking to God" to it. No way, sir. So Thursday night turned into a long tapping session. Accepting my divinity, choosing to open for the flow. And as I’m doing that, still tapping each day, to work on every aspect of this, everything that comes up, my numbness has started to improve. Not so much in the legs yet, but in my head. I have over the last couple of months begun to notice an increasing numbness in my scalp, ears and cheeks. So. Not. Funny. It is almost gone now.
When I get a neurological check-up I will of course ask about this and say that I really want to get it checked, but I don’t know how long this takes. In the mean time I’ll use the tools I have available. Like EFT and Matrix Reimprinting (an EFT version). At Pentecost I’ll have a four-day course with Donna Eden, and maybe she can do/teach me to do some energy work that will stop this possible reversed flow and stenosis. We’ll see. It's all very energising - a few days of desperate "please, please, PLEASE help me. Give me direct help or get me in touch with the right people so that I can get help, I need to do something with this MS before it ru(i)ns my life." has sent me: 1) Colostrum, which I now drink every night, and which is supposed to balance the immune system; 2) Knowledge about CCSVI, through a fellow souls coach who is having the Doppler test at the end of month; and 3) Another Soul Coach who's giving me an excerpt from a very interesting German book about MS and the spiritual messages to be gleaned from it. Ask and it is given. *smile*
Today I've fixed two jeans that were worn to hole-y-ness, and my fave shirt (handwoven indigo cotton from Guatemala) that has been torn at the edge because something had pulled at it. So now I'm wearing jeans again for the first time in ages. And my shirt. :-) I've totally refused to buy new jeans that fit my too big body, so fitting into these, which I bought two years ago, is rather thrilling. Life is actually quite good. And now I need to go tap. And make this entry fit for a blog about living with MS. Actually, that's something for tomorrow, as not only am I'm tired, but I need to add more about how Zamboni came to be aware of this stenosis and its implications.
CCSVI is an acronym for Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency - simply put, a stenosis, or narrowing, of one or more of the veins in the neck, causing pressure to build up in the brain, leading to brain barrier leaks. With red blood cells crossing the blood/brain barrier, the immune system goes bananas. Iron deposits (from the haemoglobin) in the brain is NOT a good thing.
An Italian doctor, Paolo Zamboni of Ferrara University, discovered this anomaly and named it. He tested a treatment - a simple balloon angioplasty - that immediately gave impressive results. Symptoms just disappeared.
Now I want to be checked for CCSVI too. Unfortunately, I won't be able to get this checked easily. It's very new (but research is underway) and only a simple Doppler test, but I’ve seen enough of the internal conflicts in the medical profession to know that when a possible treatment for a neurological disease is through a cardiologic procedure, neurologists are going to fight it (don't steal my patients!). I saw an interview with the most negative neurologist on Friday; he was so childish it's rather impressive. Anyway, back to me. I won't get this test soon (even if I go to a private clinic abroad it’s going to take time), and I don't feel like waiting when I could do something, so I tuned in, turning my attention inside, and tapped. I.e. I used EFT while asking myself - if I have CCSVI, then what lies beneath this malfunction? Which energy is it in my system that causes such a thing to happen? Why don’t I allow the blood to flow from my brain? And I got a very clear message on holding back, blocking the flow of divine energy through an energetic squeezing of my neck. Hold back! Don't want this! Or rather, don't want to accept that I have this, that the way I am made for some reason means I have a clear direct channel to the divine. It became very clear to me that this decision was one made in my childhood and adolescence. Life was hard enough, there was severe bullying, and I was not going to add a Jesus-like "I'm talking to God" to it. No way, sir. So Thursday night turned into a long tapping session. Accepting my divinity, choosing to open for the flow. And as I’m doing that, still tapping each day, to work on every aspect of this, everything that comes up, my numbness has started to improve. Not so much in the legs yet, but in my head. I have over the last couple of months begun to notice an increasing numbness in my scalp, ears and cheeks. So. Not. Funny. It is almost gone now.
When I get a neurological check-up I will of course ask about this and say that I really want to get it checked, but I don’t know how long this takes. In the mean time I’ll use the tools I have available. Like EFT and Matrix Reimprinting (an EFT version). At Pentecost I’ll have a four-day course with Donna Eden, and maybe she can do/teach me to do some energy work that will stop this possible reversed flow and stenosis. We’ll see. It's all very energising - a few days of desperate "please, please, PLEASE help me. Give me direct help or get me in touch with the right people so that I can get help, I need to do something with this MS before it ru(i)ns my life." has sent me: 1) Colostrum, which I now drink every night, and which is supposed to balance the immune system; 2) Knowledge about CCSVI, through a fellow souls coach who is having the Doppler test at the end of month; and 3) Another Soul Coach who's giving me an excerpt from a very interesting German book about MS and the spiritual messages to be gleaned from it. Ask and it is given. *smile*
Today I've fixed two jeans that were worn to hole-y-ness, and my fave shirt (handwoven indigo cotton from Guatemala) that has been torn at the edge because something had pulled at it. So now I'm wearing jeans again for the first time in ages. And my shirt. :-) I've totally refused to buy new jeans that fit my too big body, so fitting into these, which I bought two years ago, is rather thrilling. Life is actually quite good. And now I need to go tap. And make this entry fit for a blog about living with MS. Actually, that's something for tomorrow, as not only am I'm tired, but I need to add more about how Zamboni came to be aware of this stenosis and its implications.