<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cEN5KGwNGeo&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cEN5KGwNGeo&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> This is crazy. I wonder if something like this can really be attributed to the H1N1 vaccine.
Yeah I was skimming through youtube and found this in the Music section.. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/b4gj5_PFbVo&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/b4gj5_PFbVo&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> I feel so bad for her and I tried not to laugh but only lasted til :52. It's weird because when she runs she's totally normal.
It's sad, I'm not laughing, and her looks have nothing to do with how we should feel about someone's situation.
I laughed lol. I feel bad for the woman too and I wouldn't even know what to do if I were her. Hopefully they'll be able to find a treatment.
What do scientists know about the dystonias? Investigators believe that the dystonias result from an abnormality in an area of the brain called the basal ganglia where some of the messages that initiate muscle contractions are processed. Scientists suspect a defect in the body's ability to process a group of chemicals called neurotransmitters that help cells in the brain communicate with each other. Some of these neurotransmitters include: * GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid), an inhibitory substance that helps the brain maintain muscle control. * Dopamine, an inhibitory chemical that influences the brain's control of movement. * Acetylcholine, an excitatory chemical that helps regulate dopamine in the brain. In the body, acetylcholine released at nerve endings causes muscle contraction. * Norepinephrine and serotonin, inhibitory chemicals that help the brain regulate acetylcholine. Acquired dystonia, also called secondary dystonia, results from environmental or disease-related damage to the basal ganglia. Birth injury (particularly due to lack of oxygen), certain infections, reactions to certain drugs, heavy-metal or carbon monoxide poisoning, trauma, or stroke can cause dystonic symptoms. Dystonias can also be symptoms of other diseases, some of which may be hereditary. About half the cases of dystonia have no connection to disease or injury and are called primary or idiopathic dystonia. Of the primary dystonias, many cases appear to be inherited in a dominant manner; i.e., only one carrier parent need contribute the dystonia gene for the disease to occur, each child having a 50/50 chance of being a carrier. In dystonia, however, a carrier may or may not develop a dystonia and the symptoms may vary widely even among members of the same family. The product of one defective gene appears to be sufficient to cause the chemical imbalances that may lead to dystonia; but the possibility exists that another gene or genes and environmental factors may play a role. Some cases of primary dystonia may have different types of hereditary patterns. Knowing the pattern of inheritance can help families understand the risk of passing dystonia along to future generations. http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/dystonias/detail_dystonias.htm Probably wasn't a flu shot ..... maybe Lupus.
This makes no sense whatsoever. I Googled quite a bit looking for some coherent explanation. Nobody seems to be able to articulate what exactly it is in the flu shot that caused the problem. Most of the things that I can think of that cause these types of problems require a genetic problem or are precipitated by a stroke or some other type of severe trauma. I know that there are some types of injuries to the cerebellum that can cause slow movement effects but not fast movement ones, so I don't know that that part of it seems as far fetched as how exactly it occurred.
Extrapolating the flu shot angle makes her sad sad story so much more topical and newsworthy in the Glen Beck School of Paranoid Journalism. Without it, it would never rank airtime. Deborah Norville should just go Erin Andrews is she needs some pub.
There isn't enough volume in the shot to contain enough of either to cause these symptoms. They used to shoot people up with large amounts of mercury to treat syphilis and dystonia was not one of the outcomes. Smokers inhale tons of formaldehyde which is then metabolized by the body everyday. Nobody has ever linked cigarettes to dystonia.
It was weird seeing Bill Maher go all Beck about flu shots on his show this week. He normally is a bastion of reasonableness, but he was tripping on flu shots. All the guests went WTF?
Great points. But most people hear the name of the chemical without thinking of the type of examples you just gave. I wonder if this will cause people to bypass the H1N1 shot.
For some reason it hits closer to home with me when they are younger and good looking. Maybe it's the whole, "They had their whole life ahead of them" type of thing. A local kid who was 24 was buried here a couple weeks ago after they flew his body in from Iraq. While reading his obituary, it resonated with me how this guy was younger than me. I don't really know where I'm going with saying all of that; I just felt like letting it out.
I googled dystonia and smoking. There is an relationship with smoking, but it's the opposite effect. Smoking exhibits a protective effect. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2169915/ Smoking can be good, after all. It's quite a surprise.
