CCSVI Treatment Testimonial

Lorraine Probert                                                                                                                                               May 3, 2011

Well, Now that I’m awake and my brain seems to be clearer

LET ME BEGIN…..

My testimonial on my CCSVI Treatment.  I was diagnosed on Feb. 8, 2010.  I had limping and walking, like a drunk you could say, the summer before this – leading me to my Doctors office.  After checking my vitals, my balance and my eyes among other things, I was then sent on a crusade from CT scans, to MRI’s, Ultra sounds and then given the phone call of a possibility of MS!    WHAT?  , I THOUGHT!

The tests from the MRI and CT scan confirmed that I had Primary Progressive MS.  I had the gift of taking my DVD’s home.   NICE!  I didn’t know if I should thank them!   But I guess in the long run they did come in handy!  I was then handed over to McMaster University In Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.   I had an opportunity to do their blind study amongst people who had MS and those that didn’t.   Well it is past Easter and still no results posted!

Anyway, my health was deteriorating quite quickly I might add.  Limping was getting worse and balance required holding on to walls mostly.  Stairs were climbed up with hands holding the first few steps to gathering enough energy to completely stand and walk, always starting with my right foot hanging on to the wall and continuing up the stairs,   not a long flight but 5 stair steps sometimes feels like an eternity. Coming down required leaning and holding the walls since there is and was no banister.   A sad sight indeed!

I could no longer walk around the block for fear of falling over my clumsy gait.   So much for my Mall Shopping career !LOL!  For grocery shopping I managed to do with holding on to a cart – one of the last enjoyable things I could do!

Just getting out of bed was a real chore in the morning, one step at a time hoping that no one was in the washroom because holding my bladder or bowels almost seemed impossible at times.  Being 50 years young this is not how I was planning to deal with my life.  I was very active before this devilish turn of events happened to me!  Even though I am a stay-at-home Mom, with three boys 16, 14 and 12, this is constant activity in itself!  Summers were filled with walking, biking, and my all-time favourite was the old fashioned roller skates up and down the Canal.  I also pulled my 10ft. trailer, to meet up with my sisters for a week of camping at the Provincial Parks for years.  Lately, I just sat and watched others walking past the house.  Amazing what you take for granted!

The jittering eyes and the tingling on the top of my head, is the strangest thing.  When I look at my face it looks drained and my right eye seems to close halfway.  My legs jolt up in weirdest moments and leg spasms; there was no controlling them.  The hospital gave me a prescription for muscle relaxants 2 a day.  But I took it down to 1 a day.   I could have taken the other away too only for fear of, gee, what next?  Will it be worse if I stop?  So, I continued to take one a day.

I have been doing a lot of reading and researching other testimonials, since Dr. Zamboni did his write up in magazines and watched him on news channels of sorts and it just seemed like a NO Brainer to get the iron out of the head by ballooning the veins.  JUST like what they do for people with artery problems on their heart.  Now, why can’t MS’ers have that option in Canada!   Other countries are taking the lead and doing a FANTASTIC JOB giving some relief of symptoms to us MS’ers!  Someday, maybe they will get on board.  But it was now my time to go try as I was getting impatient.

The final straw was when I had to walk a mile home because I broke the van.  Sure I did! And I was left to fend for myself.  So off I went!  I made it home after hugging a few trees, a few post signs, meeting a few neighbours who were extremely concerned for me. But being extremely stubborn I told them I would be OK.   So then I had to step off a curb, and I could feel the situation get even worse. Tripping over my feet several times and having to stand at a full pause and grab anything quick!   I was so lucky that I didn’t fall into traffic!

That was the last straw!  I got in the house and phoned my sister and we got the ball rolling to go for the CCSVI LIBERATION TREATMENT.   After researching several spots, we found Cancun was a good option for me!  So the phone calls started and we hit the Internet.  In a few weeks hotels , flights and the hospital were booked!    So April 17^th2011 was my date.

So here I was, the day of surgery, extremely nervous and meeting with the awesome staff at the AmeriMed hospital  in Cancun, Mexico . WHAT, did I have to lose?

Well, I will tell you what I had to lose….And What I’ve Gained!

• The ability to climb out of bed the net day of surgery with no leg chugging.  WOW!
• Sitting on a chair, the same thing no chugging to stand.   WOW!
• My bladder and bowels seem to work normally again.
• My jittering eyes are gone and my right eye seems to be equally open with the other eye.
• My complexion is back to normal.
• I still have a very little leg buckling and still sore behind the knee after my walks around the block.
• YUP! THAT’S RIGHT my walks around the block NO WALKER! NO CANE!   And no tree and sign hugging!
• I have to learn to pace myself, if I want to regain it all back.
• I have regained my motor skills for picking up coins and tying my hair back in ponytail.
• My leg spasms have almost disappeared as also the waves of tingling in my head.
• I can walk up and down the stairs with hardly an effort.  But cautiously, still holding the walls but not really needing it.  Amazing!  My family is shocked and can’t believe it.  WOW!
• I have since taking myself off the muscle relaxant.  Don’t need  ‘em!

Can’t wait to see what the next few months bring.  I have a new deck of cards to play with and it’s my deal!

For anyone just getting newly diagnosed. Do the research.  Don’t let this disease take you down. Get the CCSVI Liberation Treatment before the damage is done, even if only a few symptoms are relieved it is better than doing NOTHING!   Do it before you can’t reverse the damage!

I’ve got a second chance!

OK!      YOUR    DEAL!

PS. The Doctors said I had one of the most challenging cases to date!

Look at me now!