Heavy headaches (feeling like the head is too heavy for the neck) and a bobble-head feeling. Articles by Jennifer Brea A Girl Behind Dark Glasses (Special Edition) by Jessica Taylor-Bearman | hashtagpress. Dear Cort Hip alluded to that possibility. I highly encourage folks to find physiatrist in their area if they have them. But Im leery of these fixes. What is it that makes people not want to believe recovery is possible? I am improving on electrolytes, high-salt diet, ldn, lauricidin, and several other treatments, but its been a long, exhausting, expensive, and excruciating journey which will probably continue for the rest of my life. She can bend her hand flat on her arm. At one end is simple hypermobility which causes no symptoms, is not a disease and is a trait, like height. Anothers surgery is on tap and one was recently done. Agreed. Jennifers case may be a good example of this hypothetical disease mechanism. Jeff and Jen Brea are leading examples. My daughters illness started with swollen lymph nodes, mouth and nose ulcers, extreme fatigue, low grade fevers, muscle and joint pain, exercise intolerance, POTS. Her office accepts new patients. This model may also apply to Long COVID. From someone on the Cusack protocol FB group: Hypermobility disorder is diagnosed when the symptoms are primarily joint related. I think that cervical spinal stenosis must be much more common than CCI but I dont know for sure. If so, might I ask who performed her surgery? On hisMechanicalbasis website, Jeff provides crucial advice for getting tested and fully diagnosed including how to get your scans into the right hands. I have had ME for almost 14 years but am not bed bound. Angela, I agree with Cort, Nicely said! Is it necessary to have headaches or neck pain to possibly have CCI or AAI? Maybe, he said. With all of us working together who knows what will happen? For me, the recovery stories provide hope and are a sign not to give up, to stay curious, to keep reading and asking questions. That kinda bites. It contains Huperzine A (HupA), Thiamine (B1), L-Carnitine and A-GPC (a form of choline) and is available via Amazon. Be sure to check out Jeffs recommendations on his website. Many people do not fully meet the new diagnostic criteria for hEDS but their hypermobility still causes problems for them. And whether if you have cervical spinal stenosis, are you more likely to have CCI and other instability issues? July 3, 2020. Plus, other less invasive treatment options are available (see below). While she was pursuing her PhD at Harvard, she fell ill and was . amzn_assoc_default_search_category = ""; Has there been any research using Infra red light therapy , it is low cost, non invasive and the target areas are the Gut Microbiota, no medication is required. Oh Brigitte, I am so sorry. Often the drooping brain stem will not be apparent unless a patient is upright. As to but her rapid recovery after 8 years of moderate to severe illness is amazing I wonder: did you not mean moderate to severe ME? That is great to hear! And I do appreciate any new information about anyone recovering or improving a lot and how they got to this point. It could also explain why a certain type of back surgery (i.e. Thank you. It was all about money and about her and her film production career. With that in mind, Ill continue the protocol to find out of CCI is likely to be my way out of illness. I tried a wide range of treatments, from mold avoidance to antivirals, Fludrocortisone (for POTS), and Mestinon. It is very frustratingeven devastatingwhen people outside our community do not accept ME/CFS is a real illness. He didnt consider himself a candidate for the surgery but was living near a center in Germany which could do the tests. Her debut feature, Unrest, premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and received the US Documentary Special Jury Award For Editing. Although its painful to take in, its important for patients to hear and read about patients, like Jen and like me, who have recovered in different ways. In just three days of evaluating me, based on the new imaging . These people fought and triumphed. 1946 - Benjamn Brea, Spanish-Venezuelan saxophonist, clarinet player, and conductor . To think that something like an environmental toxin can (amongst other things) invoke an immune responsethat can (amongst other things) affect the strength of connective tissuethat causes (amongst other things) hyper-mobility in key spinal jointscompression of the brainstemand POTSwhich, in itself, leads to so many other far-reaching symptomsand internal compensatory mechanisms (which cause symptoms of their own, and have many other systemic implications). Lets go back to Naviauxs research and Ron Davis comments on it. If you have a diagnosis of ME or CFS, meet the Canadian Consensus (CCC) or International Consensus (ICC) criteria, and have already been assessed for a mechanical/structural craniocervical or spinal problem by a neurosurgeon, was the result positive or negative? Nor did Mattie the third person with ME/CFS to have recently undergone CCI/AAI surgery. Later on its harder to find them as they hide away in tissues eg brain. Im about to have my first consultation with one of his associates this week. It requires a keen eye, and the ability to think outside the box. I couldnt find any information on that so maybe it doesnt. Wonder if the two are connected. With my improved health, I will continue to fight alongside each of you for equality, dignity and better care; to challenge stigma and advocate for research dollars and medical education. Im so happy for Jen but also Omar and all other caregivers/husbands etc who see reversal or vast improvement in those they care for. So I learned to go back to the basics each time that happened. If one can tackle a dominant ongoing driver of the disease one may have sufficient self healing left IMO. Currently she is practicing Ayurveda and for the first time in 6 years she is getting improvements in many symptoms. Jennifer Brea is a filmmaker who suffered with CFS for a long time, and made an award winning documentary about CFS called Unrest. Everybody said how lucky he was to have such a horse. However, not all neurosurgeons will be familiar with them. It was only then that even started to look for anything and I still dont think they took me seriously until the antibodies were found in 2017 and I still feel like I am told your symptom severity does not match what we are looking at for this patient population. The common thread with all these things is that any form of stress (good or bad) causes reactions in the body which produce toxins as a by-product. Each episode of CFS would start out with cold sores, sore throat, severe fatigue, sleep disruption, achy joints and muscles, etc. So many people have had CCI and tethered cord surgeries and are not cured. Brea also co-created a virtual reality film which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. We do not know what exactly causes it nor what sustains it. Jane Colby of UK ME childrens charity, Tymes Trust tweeted just the other day the UK MRC some years ago dismissed her proposal to build on Dr Betty Dowsetts work (Bryon Hydes too) and that the infecting viruses in ME could be identified, given the will There was no will and they didnt want to know. Finding one or more such core problems necessitating pro-active hibernation and solving it could in such cases yield near full recovery with very few permanent damage left. If theres x amount more symptoms its eds. I am slowly getting improving, but it has been several years now and I am nowhere near 100% It is very discouraging at times as I used to be a highly active person, Encouraging story, but shes not totally recovered. It means we get to debate whether she really was an ME patient, whether she purely and only was an ME patient, or whether she was ME + HSD. . I have much less energy, I have foggy mind, strong memory issues, my batteries last for 3-4 h (in a good day) and after that I just survive doing the mandatory things I need to. I remembered Jennifer Brea recovered from CFS/ME after spinal surgery, so maybe the surgery helped toxins to drain away from Jennifers spine, thus leading to recovery from CFS/ME? I immediately also got a mixed feeling when reading about her recovery. Doctors told Jen Brea that her symptoms were psychosomatic, so she filmed herself and turned to the Internet for guidance. Barnden proposed problems in the brainstem could be inhibiting the flow of signals from the motor cortex in the brain to the muscles. Colby said they could find the suspected neurotropic viruses implicated in ME by this tried and tested method if samples were taken early in the illness but its no longer done. Its a hard thing to swallow, but that remains the current state of our knowledge. People get defensive because we hear these stories and there is never a cure all, plus these things involve a lot of energy and risk emotionally on so many levels including continued exposure to the medical community. I appreciated your your emphasis on the importance of staying curious, given the wide variety of ways out of illness that some people are finding. I have a mild chiari that is not obstructing flow but what happens when I have inflammation? All these things (for some people at least) help the body eliminate toxins. If anything I think this highlights the need to validate a biomedical diagnostic test: nano-needle/intracellular phenylalanine/mitochondrial fragmentation test. Thanks to one neurosurgeon who watched my TED Talk and film, an amazing internist, and an intrepid patient, I found my way to a second surgeon and a diagnosis of craniocervical instability and tethered cord syndrome. I am happy for Jeff and Jan! I am surprised by how angry I feel, not at Jen, but at the quirks of fate and geography that dictate whether we will receive help or no help at all. Sorry Dejeurgen, reading your reply again my question isnt relevant to your theory, so please ignore. Mast cells are the master cells of our immune system and can recruit the other immune cells into action. At the beginning of May, a 26-minute trailer for the movie . It is wonderful to see these kinds of stories, and for so many reasons. Whatever kind of CCI/AAI she had, it was different from what hed seen before. I think the question of just what exactly is ME/CFS is going to come up more and more. Im sure that one day we will all have access to great medical care and the work of yourself and people like Jen sure does go a very long way to this end. Jeff will interview Mattie again in a couple of months. As such, hibernation is a very wasteful process. Different neurosurgeons will employ different scans. One thing that you didnt mention is that chiari and CCI are not all that uncommon in people with Ehlers-Danlos Syndromethough not especially common either. Enteroviruses (the first viruses associated with ME) produce enzymes calledmatrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) that destroy connective tissue proteins like collagen, elastin and gelatin. If he didnt write it up, how many others didnt either? Are a subset of us members of a lost tribe? Once diagnosed with severe pyroluria I started supplementation and had very quick results. They believe our cells go into a sort of hibernation, Dauer after an initial onset of the disease and try and wait the danger out. and many of my autonomic manifestations, including POTS, under control. I was told by a Woman last night to look into a condition called Systemic Nickel Allergy Syndrome I was very surprised she said this to me, a Doctor a few years back told me I was Allergic to Nickle he never said anything to me about foods, vitamins, minerals, medicines that contain NickleI was reacting very badly to belt buckles, wrist & neck chains, watches I would break out in severe itchy hives & itch until I would bleed. It was a bit devastating at the time, but I just carried on thinking my memorisation capabilities would return. I have read many stories on my EDS forum about this problem of a missed diagnosis. If you cant access Mestinon, you might consider trying the nutritional supplement Huperzine A. Thank you, thank you, thank you. In the intervening years, I made Unrest, a film about the experience living with ME and that of my community. (X-rays are not sufficient to test for this condition, however.). 2) Why is there such a prevalence of women in the ME patient population? Two more people on PR, @mattieand@StarChild56 have recently had fusion surgeries to correct CCI. 1981 - Jennifer Tisdale, American actress and singer; 1981 - Kristaps Valters, Latvian basketball player . Maybe the comments I made on https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2019/05/29/spinal-stenosis-chronic-fatigue-fibromyalgia/#comment-874284 can answer your question. She didnt have ME and i found her film attention seeking. So, if you have some of the more exaggerated symptoms that Jennifer had (more on the uncommon side of ME/CFS), be sure to go to a doctor who has access to this specialized imaging! She was in Miami dealing with another project while coordinating and gazing in the film Unrest. My question is why was I constantly told you have CFS and there is nothing we can offer but GET and CBT.. The fact remains, that while there are things we can do to make us feel better, ME/CFS remains a disease whose cause and cure is still unknown. While there are certainly cases of gradual recoveries using supplements, pacing, and mind/body practices, many of the recovery stories involve unusual, out-of-the-box treatments. So, I dont know if its gonna last, I fear Im like Cinderella and its gonna stop working suddenly, I enjoy wile it does work, and keep looking for clues that help me. My insurance is through the Healthcare Marketplace (ACA), and Im very grateful to have it, as I was uninsurable prior to the ACA, being self-employed with pre-existing conditions. Simran Hans @heavier_things . Its a definitely recovery if Jen can get away with 30-90 min of weight exercise, light or otherwise. EDS type 3 is one presentation of MCAD and my daughter has Hereditary Alpha Tryptasemia (as per NIH) and MCAS as per qualifying for activation by strictest diagnostic criteria. But I see no future for me anymore, getting rapidly worse and am alreaddy 99% bedridden. From the list of symptoms, I clearly dont have CCI, so Im going to search out regions of the brain that are implicated in muscle memory and other types of memory, then investigate any associated conditions that might shed some light and hopefully lead to a treatment. That being said it is my hope that you can put your forces behind the search for a biological marker. Most neurosurgeons arent trained to recognize craniocervical instability, and finding an imaging facility that does the right kind of scans can take time. Reason being that NEITHER Jeff nor I had overt neck symptoms before our surgeries. She has a tethered cord but that surgery does not cure CFSME either. It was very insidious and progressed with dysautonomias especially gastrointestinal dysfunction with anorexia. And I also wanted to express how much I love how you write, Cort with this example being particularly resonant (and delightful): When (recovery/remission) occurs, it often occurs using nontraditional approaches found teetering on the skinny branches of the medical system. Brea also co-created a virtual reality film which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. Also in terms of severe, moderate, mild these are relative terms. Way to go Jennifer! Compare it to be used to ride a car and all of a sudden having that car replaced by a truck for mining operations. I had constant vertigo, extreme light and sound sensitivity, sensory processing disorder problems that were so uncomfortable I would beg god to let me die. Browse 72 jennifer brea stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. After some reflection, I dont think its as bad as that. My mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) has improved significantly, too. Everything felt to me to be systemic. Management advice for both hEDS and HSD is the same., I agree, misdiagnosis big time. Maybe, the warrior said. Ill leave Jennifer and others to judge upon how it affects them. Thanks so much Cort. We stopped before looking deeply (pardon the pun) into venous stenosis in brain. I have had M.E since developing Adult on-set Stills Disease in 2011. Its easy to see how a borderline structural problem can become problematic when the muscles cant keep good posture. Sheeze wish Jen Brea would stop messing with ME. Huperzine A caused tummy issues with me, as did mestinon. Tip! It might be best to look for a reputable pain clinic in the area, call them up and ask them about it. They say IIH manifesting as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, rather than going all the way and saying that this might be one of the underlying factors in ME/CFS. I am reminded of the damage that was caused in 2009 when after huge publicity was given to the retrovirus XMRV as the definitive cause of MEFS, many could not admit their mistake even after the retraction in the journal Science. Again happy for someone to elaborate if they know. After other possible conditions are excluded, a diagnosis of generalised hypermobility spectrum disorder may be made here. It shows how variable this all is some people get helped with the opposite practice. It helped with pain and some symptoms. Many of the symptoms I experience seem to point to something the body is trying to resolve. Happiness that someone who has been so ill may no longer be suffering. I think the really compelling thing about mechanical explanations relating to the neck and spinenot just CCI, but mechanical Intracranial pressure, cervical spinal stenosis, etc etc. is that it can potentially speak to two of the biggest puzzle pieces in ME: amzn_assoc_marketplace = "amazon"; I know how you feel its hard not to feel that way after awhile but check this out Dana we didnt know anything about CCI/AAI a year and now Jen Brea is recovering. Dr Perrin explains the back-flow issue in really simply terms making it easy for the layman to understand. Dejuergen, if in theory Jen and Jeffs CCI was caused by inflammation triggered by an virus why would treating the CCI heal all symptoms, surely some illness would still be remaining? Didnt she had thyroid cancer and removed her thyroid? I was recently diagnosed with Pyroluria. Im pretty sure my ME has a biomechanical cause. Directors Jennifer Brea Starring Jennifer Brea, Omar Wasow Genres Birdie, I agree; I do not understand the whole process of doctors reporting things. Prolotherapy involves injecting an irritating glucose/dextrose or other solution at painful ligament attachment sites to produce a mild inflammatory response which, hopefully, initiates a healing cascade which then increases the strength and elasticity of connective tissues. The other big distinguishment between the two paradigms is in Western medicine people identify with their disease. They are their disease. I like bringing these two worlds together because as a medical doctor I have the tools to hunt down every possible thing that could be contributing to fatigue. Hi matthias, Since my accident Ive had very few issues with my neck. It also did a number on my lower back. Im so happy to hear Jen is improving so quickly and doing so well!! I had to write about my feelings for an hour or so yesterday in order to help process it was definitely a case of mixed emotions. Pressure headaches generated by things like yawning, laughing, crying, coughing, sneezing or straining. Jen has said she believes that mold exposure in Beijing may have triggered her MCAS which may have caused collagen degradation which may have led to the CCI the CCI can also trigger mast cells and immune dysregulation as well as POTS, hEDS, etc. It could be argued there has been insufficient research to build on Ramsey and Dowsetts hypothesis of ME being atypical polymyelitis. Even though its a spinal condition you dont need to have either I dont believe. What an unbelievable relief that must be. I and others had surgery, some at CINN in Chicago, but I saw E Neurosurgeons to confirm. ), Your email address will not be published. If anyone is curious, there's a new short documentary series following people with "chronic illness".I thought it would feature people with real Press J to jump to the feed. Omar Wasow, Jennifer Brea and Anna Deavere Smith attend the HBO "Notes from the Field" Sundance Dinner at The St. Regis Deer Valley on January 20,. If you have a diagnosis of ME or CFS, meet the Canadian Consensus (CCC) or International Consensus (ICC) criteria, and have already been assessed for a mechanical/structural craniocervical or spinal problem by a neurosurgeon, was the result positive or negative? So this makes me wonder if Jeff or Jen showed signs of MCD from the beginning. Jennifer Brea is an American documentary filmmaker and activist. However, and I state again, she was not an HEDS patient. Sorry for the delay I changed this: Jeff reported that, for most of his ME/CFS, his vague headaches and neck symptoms provided no clues that his head and neck. I also wonder if the long term bed rest could contribute to ligament laxity (?). Our disease is very diverse. (A patient of Dr. Kaufmans reports that the extremely strong 3Tesla MRIsmay be the best and are more readily available. At the same time I learned that I still could do very simple basic movements well. I am absolutely thrilled to hear such wonderful news! I just want to put out there that as a physiatrist CCI is a diagnosis that were extensively trained in and we dont miss. Hi Cort- I cant keep up with all the reading around this issue so I might have missed this, but will their case reports be published? Moderate to severe ME equals to severe to devastatingly severe illness IMO. Julia brings to us 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector. I really dont know what to sayIt must be hard, indeed, to read some of these blogs. Its a slow process but it was and still is to some extend an essential step in increasing my capabilities again after each crash. My suspicion is that its such a small dose (at 10mg twice per day am and pm) that any sleepiness is negligible. ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, and long COVID blogs here. Hope Jeff & Jen & other cases do get documented. Re Jen and Jeffs CCI surgery, if in theory their CCI was caused by inflammation triggered by an enterovirus that caused Classic ME in others, why would treating the CCI heal all symptoms, surely some illness would still be remaining? Hopefully we will get much more brainstem research. Hope the ideas may help you in your recovery. EDS does run in his family. As an Ayurvedic physician I can help people unhook their identities from their suffering and heal. Her symptoms caused by the brain stem compression & tethered spinal cord were just very similar to the symptoms of ME/CFS, she has surgery to correct the spinal & vertebrae/brain stem deformity & all the symptoms have gone!! A Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Inquiry. https://www.healthrising.org/forums/threads/how-bad-can-ehlors-danlos-syndrome-get-really-really-bad.2205/. Could Craniocervical Instability Be Causing ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia & POTS? Lets instead spread realistic hope that there are answers, varied as they are, to our collective suffering. Not to mention the ability to take off of work. It is not intended as medical advice and should be used for informational purposes only. Yes we more than ever need a good diagnostic test think, though, about how much controversy THAT will raise when some people with clear ME/cFS symptoms, onset and other tests, dont test positive which Im sure will happen! When the fever lifted, she was left bedridden, dizzy, and despondent. Doctors are still in the mode of one-cause-one-disease. Speaking of that I emailed Avindra Nath Jeffs story and today your story and asked him if he was looking at this in the NIH Intramural study and I gathered from his answer that he is. Using the old trained skill wont help you much and just confuses you. [-] jenniferbrea 2 points 11 months ago* Mestinon helped me a lot. Now that I am walking down this pathway myself, Im experiencing some very contrary feelings, as you discuss. This is such an obstacle that it almost makes me wish Id never heard of CCI! It seems to bring balance back to the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. We may have weird neurological symptoms that do not squarely fit onto any list, and a growing number of us (not without some controversy!) That will alert other doctors to this issue and provide the basis for grants to study this more. Im sure Ron and Janet have thought a lot about this. There are still the vagal sympathetic synptoms and the neck pain. 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