Re: mitoldies: MS---Peripheral neuropathy

February 5, 2006

I have peripheral neuropathy but the doc who diagnosed my sister,son and I with

melas says it could be from the high lactic acid I have or high glucose. My

blood sugar is now under control (i have an insulin pump and try to keep bs to

115). I also take qgel and carnitor now.

back in 1997 my lactic acid on a spinal tap was sky high and my blood sugar was

450. My mother was a diabetic and supposedly an epileptic so I should have been

watching my sugar.

My problem is my blood sugar goes up with physical exercise so basically we will

never know if the problems I get in my toes and hands are from the melas and

lactic acid or high glucose.

I can tell you that whenever I walk for a long while like in a super Walmart

that I cannot feel the toes on my left foot. It was the top of my left foot

always feeling like a shoe was on it too tight that led me to get tested for

MELAS in the first place. After I have rested for a while the feeling returns.

Janet Sample

Re: : MS

Hi ,

THere are a number of individuals that were originally diagnosed with MS and

later diagnosed with mito. Retrospectively, I think that Dr. Cohen,

SHoffner ,etc have told many of those individuals that the " diagnostic " MRI

was incorrectly read and the " plaques " were actually lesions typically seen

in patients with mito. If you have such an MRI, I;d consider having Dr.

Cohen or Dr. Shoffer over read it, ie do an formal interpertation of an

outside exam. Send the films with a clinical history and other diagnostic

info.

MitomomX3@... wrote: has anyone been diagnosed with MS and mito?

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