I really can’t talk for Tim on this subject. I can only speak for me, and how this has affected my life and that of my family. How I’ve taken to the news of Tim’s Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis. Having said that, Tim does have his own profile…so he can write it here if he wants. It’s probably just not his style to put it all out there though.

Multiple Sclerosis, aside from being a hard word to spell correctly every time, is a scary disease. So much of it is unknown. So much of the process for diagnosis is “hurry up and wait.”

You want to do the tests, you want to find the answer’s. You want to do everything you possibly can to be able to take control and start treatment. But you just can’t do it. You have to wait.

You have to wait to find out what kind of MS you have. You have to wait for MRI results, lumbar puncture results, for medication to begin. In the mean time, you don’t know. You just wait.

And while you wait, you read. Everything you can get your hands on. But that sometimes makes things much worse. You get to see the worst case scenario’s. Wheel chairs, suicidal tendencies. Disability. All very frightening, but very real. Even if right now they don’t apply…and may never apply….the possibilities are there and they’re terrifying.

Really, Tim’s Dr’s have been great. They’re supportive and informative. They have made themselves available to him whenever he’s had questions or needed advice about anything he has questions about. But aside from offering advice about what drugs he’ll soon need to start taking and life style changes that he could make (more rest, don’t over do it), no mention of any other successful treatments has been mentioned. No natural therapies, no this or that.

So I’m happy to have found a wonderful site. And perhaps some real hope in all of the unknown quantities that we’re now faced with.

It seems that a very long time ago, a study was taken out over 34 years. A study that investigated the relationship between the amount of fat in the diets of MS sufferer’s. It seems that there is in fact a connection between the amount of fat you eat, and the progression of MS itself. The less fat you eat, the more chance you have of living a normal life with little or no physical disability over time.

Of course, each case is individual. And I’m sure there are plenty of Dr’s who would say this is utter bullshit. But what could be the harm in trying right? What could possibly go wrong if we decided to give a very low fat diet a go?? Which of course, we will be. Once we’ve learned where to start.

If you’d like to do some reading about this research, or even read some of the testimonial’s, research about oil’s and supplements that could or can help with MS…here’s a great place to start.

The Swank Diet (they call themselves Swankers, kinda funny!)

It’s just been nice over the last couple of hours to see so many people with MS who have so much confidence in this special diet. To see that aside from the medications, which can not cure or stop but only slow down the progression of MS symptoms, there is another option. There is something that we can do to take control of this shit we’ve been handed. It’s nice to read stories from real people, who after starting the diet…have had fewer attacks. Less aggressive attacks. And many of them, after 35-40 years of living with MS are still walking. Still functioning like they don’t have MS at all.