My first post on this page was about the stem cells I got for my MS. It’s a very expensive process and a personal choice because as of right now it still is not approved in the US so insurance does not cover it.

Ideally you have this procedure, you see improvement and you don’t have to do it again. Looking back I realize that the stem cells probably gave me a boost in energy during the first few months in addition to the other pleasant changes.

15 months later though I am seeing decline in the changes I originally saw. Whether this is due to my MS re-damaging the areas or what I am not sure. I am not a scientist, though I do love my research.

Originally, before my stem cells I hadn’t been able to feel my feet for nearly three years and then less than a week after the stem cells my feet magically reappeared, at least that’s how it felt. I also had moderate back pain in my spine since 1999 or 1998, honestly it was 20 years ago so I am not sure anymore, that was gone as well.

I thought this back pain was from the first car accident I was in but now that the pain is coming back after being gone for almost a year I am wondering if it is actually from the lesion on my spinal cord in the same area. I know I have an old lesion there because they told me that’s probably the reason I had severe MS “hugs” for several months in 2011.

That’s the kicker, so much money spent, so much hope put in because the pain was gone for the first time in 20 years and now, after a little more than a year it’s coming back. The feeling in my feet is slowly going away too. There is still enough there at the moment that I can sense them, but enough lost that I know what’s coming.

Would I do it all over again knowing? Probably, if I had to do it all over, it was a nice break from pain while I had it. Though I feel terrible that support I received to pay for the procedure ended up not being long term.