I realise the importance of supressing the inflammation through MS.
People know that IV steroids causes osteoporosis.
Where does this bone loss form.
My solid belief is the bone loss caused by IV steroids forms in the arteries.
So people with MS need to have a CT of the aorta with contrast.
This is to confirm how much bone loss has been formed in the aorta and the Entire CVS and will prove why MS sufferes become gradually worse with systemic problems.
Because the aorta and all its branches supplies the Entire CVS rendering patients disabled, especially after 2 large courses of IV steroids.
Now the importance of saving somebodies life through suppressing Inflammation is this greater than severely disabling the Entire CVS.
I am sure its time for smaller less damaging courses of steroids in unison with other treatments to give MS patients a better quality of life!
But I suppose that is the decision of each and every individual person with MS.
There is much I could knowledge people about the professionals we trust.
I am not trying to upset anybody, i am just relaying the facts for the people that wish to listen, thats all.
I am not trying to force anything onto anybody either.
This is to help and help only!
Hi Antbrom. Thanks from me for your interesting post. I might have misunderstood you but so far as I know MS patients are actually given other treatments ( basically for life) and steroids are only given short term to bring down inflammation from any recent relapse. I don’t know how often steroids are used and I’ve never had any in my 17 years since diagnosis . I was in the strange position of having two consultants at my initial diagnosis: one said quite correctly that the symptoms will die down of their own accord but won’t recover fully, the other said a short course of steroids will shorten the recovery period but of course won’t bring full recovery . I opted for no steroids
You say it is your solid belief that calcium lost as a result of steroid use ends up in arteries. I’ve had a quick look for any research on this but can’t find anything. Could you point me in the right direction?
P.S. my MS has got worse without the use of any steroids at all which doesn’t quite fit with your hypothesis
How fascinating. I know that steroids are terrible for bones, and that coronary artery calcification scores as measured on a specialist scan are increasingly recognised as a marker of good or bad coronary artery health, but I have not seen the two put together before.
Please would you share your source material?
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OK, you’ve got me interested now, and I’ve found a paper that suggests that body-builders who have been misusing anabolic steroids for years can do themselves a mischief. But these guys aren’t interested in safety protocols, and are probably taking heroic doses on the basis that the more the merrier, aren’t they? And anyway, these are anabolic steroids they’re using, not the corticosteroids we use.
Anabolic androgenic steroids may be associated with early coronary artery disease - PMC.
I haven’t found anything similar about the kind of corticosteroids that we use in controlled and therapeutic doses for MS and other inflammatory conditions.
Have you?