What If...

Meet Anne. She is a spirited woman with MS, who just got her test results back and found evidence of CCSVI but is faced with a healthcare system that won't correct a vein abnormality until there is enough scientific research that doing so will improve her autoimmune disease. Here is the game of What If she plays trying to make sense of the predicament.

"What if Diabetics were told by their endocrinologists they could not have their knee replaced until extensive double blinded studies were done of the impact of the surgery on their diabetes.

What if people with Arthritis were told by their specialists they could not have their kidney stones treated until extensive double blinded studies were done of the impact of kidney stones (and their treatment) on their Arthritis.

Lots of ways you can play this game!! It can get quite ridiculous…


I had my Vascular problem confirmed yesterday. It will not be treated because I have MS.
Whether CCSVI has a relationship to MS is irrelevant. If my vascular problem was identified in a person who did NOT have MS, it would be treated."

What do you think?