Minutus

Re: Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT)

It is also called peroneal muscular atrophy (PMA) because the peroneal
muscle down the front of the shin that enables you to pull your foot up
is usually the first muscle to be affected. A weakened peroneal muscle
can cause sloppy walking, drop foot which causes tripping and you must
lift your leg from the thigh so that your toes clear the ground and your
foot slaps onto the ground, hopefully heel first.

CMT also has a third and more recent name, hereditary motor and sensory
neuropathy (HMSN). This name more accurately describes the syndrome
because it is hereditary, can affect both or either the ability to move
(motor) or the ability to feel (sensory). I have seen many people who
cannot feel their feet or legs in a stocking pattern and many who cannot
move their ankles, feet and toes and some who cannot feel or move
anything from the knees down. Most people experience some loss of movement.

Lynn
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At what age do symptoms of CMT typically appear?

People with CMT disease can begin to experience symptoms in adolescence
or early adulthood.

Lynn
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I know a woman who has managed to address and reverse symptoms of
Duchenne's dystrophy in family members. She was able to do a family tree
which showed the inheritance pattern, but by withdrawing certain foods,
(I think probably wheat and dairy, but she also used blood type diet
information) and addressing the major vitamin deficiencies that these
foods can cause in susceptible people (often B1, B3, B12), the dystrophy
reversed. B1, B3 and B12 are invovled in neurological issues which
include the footdrop caused by peroneal atrophy. Even in MS you can read
of people being helped by a program of large doses of these vitamins.

Now, I'm not saying the disease was cured, because they still need large
doses of the vitamins and to stay away from the problem foods, but there
is a definite improvement in quality of life (still alive and active
compared to progressive paralysis). The susceptibility to develop the
disease picture is the underlying miasmatic inheritance which needs to
be addressed. Other family members showed different symptom patterns,
including major depression. I learnt about all this stuff before I
found homoeopathy, and the more I learn about addressing miasmatic
inheritance as a priority, the more it makes sense.

Gail
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