Diagnosing and treating MS as an Allergy

Rather than make any interested reader read 3 pages of my experience and research, I will start by stating my conclusions.  If they interest you, feel free to read more!
​Conclusions:

1. MS is an allergy and should be treated as such.
2. Antihistamines do not make myelin.  They stop the autoimmune response aka allergy. Antihistamines allow the body to continue remyelination without the myelin being attacked.
   1. Flaxseed and other omega 3 fatty acid sources regulate cells associated with allergies, inflammation, & autoimmune cells.
   2. Humans best absorb animal sources of omega 3 fatty acids
3. Allergy tests to myelin can help guide us in diagnosing MS
4. Rather than looking at the here and now, we need to turn our attention to the cellular level of MS. We need to view ALL allergy signaling cells as at a potential root cause beyond just histamines
   1. Figuring which type of inflammation or allergy cell is attacking the patient would allow us to better target and fix the cause for each individual
5. Research into giving patients a synthetic myelin could distract the body’s immune system from attacking the body’s myelin. Current rheumatoid arthritis treatment successfully mimics this procedure.

Prior to being diagnosed with Arnold Chiari Malformation in April 2013 I was trying to figure out what was wrong with me.  Due to severe ongoing pain, being diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome in 2015, and also not knowing who to trust or where to go with this information, I did not know what more I could do. I had this crazy idea that I could use my standup comedy as a platform to bring awareness to invisible diseases and eventually the right person, doctor, or scientist would hear me.  Two days ago, that changed.
I was sent an article about a UCSF study on antihistamines and MS.  I was not surprised by the results, though the hypothesis as to why it worked seems improbable.  According to the article’s author, Devika Bansal, “In light of previous laboratory studies of the antihistamine compound at UCSF, the researchers said, the drug most likely exerted its effect by repairing damage MS had inflicted on myelin.” http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2017/10/408646/allergy-drug-improves-function-patients-chronic-injury-multiple-sclerosis

​My thought on the matter is as follows:

*** Antihistamine itself does not repair myelin, but rather antihistamine stops the body’s immune system from attacking the myelin. This allows the body’s natural remyelination process to continue without it being destroyed by the body as it is no longer mistaking myelin is being a foreign object that needs to be attacked – the latter being the very exact definition of what an allergy is. ***

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