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Date Posted: 15:37:50 08/27/07 Mon
Author: Dianna
Subject: Re: Children of Polio survivors
In reply to: Jo 's message, "Re: Children of Polio survivors" on 05:19:50 02/26/07 Mon

> from "cindy larsen"
>"Any answer on children of polio victims having
>disorders? I am 29 years old and have always been
>puny. I currently have muscle weakness and postural
>tremors in my hands and sometimes my neck. Any ideas?
>
>I am having lumbar bone spurs and sciatic nerve pain.
>My mother is a polio survivor who had been diagnosed
>with the same problem."
>
>Hi, Cindy!
>I'm so hoping that someone from the medical community
>will have the answers, too!
>I know a man who is also the sole child of a polio
>surviving mother.
>He's now of middle-age, and has always been very
>thin, as well.
>A few decades ago, he was refused a job, due to a
>dark spot showing-up on his vertebra, during his exam
>x-ray.
>He'd attributed it to some prior accident, however
>minor...yet, he'd not experienced any pain,
>or adverse effects, throughout.
>However, now...within the past two years, he's gone
>through
>one back sugery, and is being scheduled for another --
>this the result of yet more x-rays, and a subsequent
>biopsy of some yet "unidentified infection"...which
>has taken up residency, around his spine!
>And, even though the term has yet to be used by his
>doctors --
>this "infection" still defies a string of antibiotics
>they've administered to him, and so...would be a
>MRSA, in my non-medical opinion.
>Now, since their drugs aren't touching it...
>they've scheduled another surgical "scraping" --
>their primary goal being to "identify" the
>bug...
>now considered to be "viral."
>My thought is this -- if they couldn't identify the
>invading bug from the first biopsy, what makes them
>think they can, this time?
>The only difference now, is that it's spreading!
>They say it's definitely not a malignant
>cancer,
>yet, it certainly is acting as such!
>So, is there a possible "polio" connection?
>His doctors won't even consider that possibility.
>So, I ask -- how scientific is that???
You wouldn't believe how long it has taken me to find anything at all on the 'net regarding the possible link between what I am feeling and my mother's polio symptoms. Any new information would be greatly appreciated. Do you know if anyone from the medical community has or is addressing this? Doing research?

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