Do you have Relatives with MS?

[Recovery Soon]

Does anyone have relatives with MS?

My brother was diagnosed with MS about a year and a half before I came down with CFS. My sister also has been diagnosed with MS. (No other siblings)

With all of the XMRV/gene research I am reading, it appears there is a strong connection btw these disorders and XMRV.

The connection in my family seems too uncanny to be coincidence.

Does anyone else have this pattern?

(Incidentally my paternal grandmother had epilepsy, which is also being implicated)

[niaholt]

Recovery soon,
You might find the article in this newsletter of new MS research in Italy about their being too much iron in the arteries in the brains of MS people...perhaps born with the defect. When they draiend it away so many MS sufferers were so much better. http://www.letterfromserendipity.com/serendipity28.htm

[neil25]

no people in my family with MS, but me and my mum both have cfs. which i know is not a conicidence. im pretty sure i was born with this defect.