McArdle's Sign for Multiple Sclerosis Explained
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
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Hi Spencer! A new viewer here, and thanks for your hard work. I am a retired college Prof with a background in microbiology and immunology. You may find the following information useful in order to explain the signs and symptoms of a disease (apologies if you've already addressed these:
Signs and symptoms are abnormalities that can INDICATE (you used that word correctly) a potential medical condition exists. A collection of signs and symptoms can help reach a clinical diagnosis. It's important to distinguish signs from symptoms:
a. A symptom is subjective, that is, apparent only to the patient (for example: back pain, fatigue, palpitations, dizziness)
b. A sign is any OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE of a disease that can be observed or measured by others (for example: a skin rash, lump, increased blood pressure).
Thanks for clarity.
You make such good videos! I mean that you explain things very well! Thank you so much!
Big thanks! nice of you to say
This was much simpler than anything else I’ve seen...thanks so much!
Thanks! Simplicity was my intention ... all best!
your page is great for us with MS
Thanks man
Oh interesting! Possibly related to Lhermitte's phenomenon? Learned something new today. Thanks Spencer.
I thought of that when seeing this too. I always get asked about that one at my Dr. visits.
I was thinking the two would be related, but I guess Lhermitte is more a nerve enervation and McCardles is a degraded signal. Anyway, either way I guess we're screwed :)
Never heard of this. Pug hugs to all! 🧡🐾
Pug hugs are the best! :)
THANK YOU for this explanation! I am in the process of trying to figure out what is going on with me, and maybe this new “sign” will help me get one step closer to a definitive diagnosis 🙏🏻
I look forward to watching more of your videos.
Thanks again.
good luck .... an mri might be in order
Very interesting, I have neck severe issues and hand strength issues.
oh man, sorry to hear. well, hang in and keep riding
Yep! I got that sign. Very noticeable difference when head leaning back vs head down when I walk.
I don't seem to have it myself, so wasn't sure how prevalent it was ... good to know even if that must be a challenge. hang in!
This is crazy I stumbled upon this. Nuerosurgeon sent me to PT for cervical radiculopathy, numbness I'm hands and tingling, weakness. Pain in neck. Everytime we talk he stops me and pushes my chin down and keeps telling me about my head posture. My re eval after 12 he said he's discontinuing therapy, it's not helping. He mentioned 2 things he said causes my issues, central cord compression and MS. Nuero appt is 1/19
That sounds pretty challenging but I'd say keep a positive outlook on it! A lot of different things can be a cause ... hang in! If it does turn out to be MS I'd be surprised. But if so MANY of us are doing incredibly well and living amazing active lives on an anti-inflammatory diet and no drugs. So hang in!
Love your video and subscribed. Did you see this movie about a Canadian guy Matt Embry who has MS but has more or less beat it?
Living Proof is the name of the movie and he has incredible recommendations for MS patients
Oh yeah, I've seen Living Proof and really appreciate Matt Embry (and his folks). I was corresponding with his mother for a while before she passed away -- she made a great cookbook and recipe book for the Best Bet Diet for MS that they advocate. Anyway, great people. Thanks for checking out the channel!
@@SpencersMSStory great!what is the name of this cookbook and is it available on Amazon?
@@EternalDestiny48 Here's some info on it ... I don't endorse all the recipes but it has some good ideas www.direct-ms.org/best-bet-diet-cookbook/
I heard a doctor at Mayo clinic talk about this. When I play guitar. I'm right handed. If my neck is too tight my left hand starts to go numb and I literally can't play the notes. It drives me crazy because five years ago I played guitar like 4 hours every other day. Now I can't since I got COVID and long haulers syndrome for two years weakness and fatigue. So I have a b vitamin deficiency and folate deficiency they did the mthfr test on my genetics and found that so I take my methyl vitamins now. Doing better on the fatigue and weakness but but after COVID Nov 2020 I got tacycardia pretty bad it hasn't gone away but metoprolol helps a lot. So glad they discovered it back in the 80's. It's an adrenaline blocker. Basically whenI got COVID my body to was like... I don't have energy to fight this so we need to speed up your heart rate. And with tacycardia it makes exercise three times harder so ya that sucks but I'm getting stronger all the time and I can walk more now than in the beginning. Couldn't walk at all back then. So I'm glad COVID didn't kill me. I got vaccinated too month six when it finally came out and it didn't hurt me even in my weakened state then so I'd say COVID vaccines are safe. But that's just me. LoL
Wow, that's some wild stuff you went through. Hang in and thanks for sharing the story!
So have you got fybromyalgia or ms
I wonder if it has something to do with lesions on the spinal cord for those patients
That would be my guess. Or possibly that posture just impedes the nerves that are already hindered from brain lesions.
I’ve had pins and needles in both of my hands 24/7 for almost 10 months, sometimes it feels like burning, sometimes it’s just there. But it legitimately never goes away. Does anyone else have this? Had an MRI a couple weeks ago, small lesions, waiting for my spinal tap to confirm MS.
Those sensations are familiar to me for sure, but that doesn't mean it's MS for sure. Other things can cause nerves to act this way. If you're seen a neurologist who is good and experience with MS (there are MS specializing neurologists) you should get some answers. And if you haven't done it look into anti-inflammatory diets for MS. They have helped me sooooo much to live well with the disease
@@SpencersMSStory thank you! I have looked into it, I’m going to start it if I get the diagnosis, maybe even if I don’t. I will not go the drug route.
@@lydiafredericks3099 Yeah, the diet can only help. Hang in there!
What did the doctor say?
@@RCBGMK I have MS.
nice place
thanks man. yeah, we love it
@@metaspencer what state are you in? Beautiful.
@@whattowatchrightnow IL
@@metaspencer nice. Im thinking about moving home to indiana. love to have a place like that. thanks for the videos. stay healthy
How long numbness and tingling last in MS? It last for few seconds or it last for long duration?
usually a long time like days or more
Before i was diagnosed i had numb legs for about 3 months. Thats considered a ‘sensory relapse’, so most doctors wouldn’t actually administer steroids, despite the inconvenience of the numbness :( x
@@emilybarrett464 I have tingling on a daily basis, sometimes bouts of numbness. It's not considered serious in terms of a relapse but is definitely annoying
@@beastywild im actually in hospital for my fifth day of steroids 😭 even after 2 years of mavenclad theres been a new lesion on my cerebellum, double vision like crazzzzy. But, ive been approved for HSCT. Such a great opportunity but so scared. Hope youre doing okay xx
4:12 dammit! I was trying to take a sip of water and listening to this part and automatically put my head down instead of back, ugh. Oops. Lol
oh well, it happens! :)
@@metaspencer at least this time I had a good reason to spill on myself 😊
You know where we fall in health care, don't you? We rank in 37th place. I especially like 2017's study. In that we rank 54th. But, that's 2017; so there's that.
Yeah, always good to keep that in mind
@@SpencersMSStory There's a cure for MS, by the way.
@@jasonc5289 I seem to have found it: anti-inflammatory diet, rest, low stress, and Vit D
@@SpencersMSStory I hear you. I went down the path of Matt Embry, Terry Wahls, George Gelenick (sp?), et al....and have it fine, as well. I'm a big fan Matt Emby's movie about his journey. It came out when I was actually diagnosed. I watched it, liked it and the only thing is that they do have a cure for it. I was like you, I was diagnosed late. Apparently, I've had it for a while as well. Anyways, I found it odd that we don't have a cure for it; so, I went down the rabbit-hole, if you will, and started researching it. Long story short, they found the cure in mid-1987. It was in the Ukraine. Anyways, my best to you and yours; and I do enjoy your posts. It really is a shame that millions of people don't have funds to go or really don't know what their doctors tell them is false; most of them, anyways. It's shocking, actually; but, America is not what I thought it was.
What does it mean "we rank in 37th place"?
McArdle’s sign
thanks for catching that
Question unrelated to this video, which MBTI are you?x)
haha ... I missed this comment originally. I don't think I've ever known my MBTI! What about you?
I wonder if poor cervical lordosis contributes to MS.
I doubt it. Once you have a blood-brain-barrier that is breached and an immune system that eats myelin, you've got MS
@@SpencersMSStory Right. I have both 🥴. My neurologist said the same thing how they don’t affect each other but learning about the McCurdles sign made me curious!
@@s0phian0va Oh I see. Well, just a guess but I'd suspect the M-Sign would kick in more for you, but dunno. Anyway: be well and hang in!
Well it's related to heds just list my mum to severe ms I have fybromyalgia related also to asperger's which comes with heds