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My wife has MS and believe me if there was treatment for myelin damage 1) I'd tell you right now and 2) MS wouldn't be nearly the awful disease it is But no, i

• monoideism 6y ago
  > But no, if you can stop the thing that's destroying the myelin while it's happening, sure, but as far as I'm aware once the damage is done it's done Yes, as you allude to, once the original cause is removed, peripheral nerves do typically heal in most people, however slowly. There's emerging evidence that central nerves heal as well. I can attest to this personally, since I've have a neurological condition that causes axonal damage. Each "attack" I've had (a decade apart), it's left me with foot drop, hand drop, loss of sensation in my feet and hands, and severe nerve pain. The second time, I've also developed facial and pelvic neuralgia, including trigeminal neuralgia. But I did slowly heal after the first attack. I regained full motor functions within 2 years, and slowly regained sensation in the years after that. Even the nerve pain got better until the second attack. Now starting to slowly heal once again. According to my neurologist, and also a specialist neurologist he sent me to, people typically do slowly heal to some extent if they have proper nutrition unless the original cause is still present (which it would be in RR MS).