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The
Faces and Stories of MdDS
BILL SMITH'S MdDS STORY
Thought
I would send you this note just for your records. A little
history
first. I am one of the "blessed" one's who got mdds and it
went away. I got it the first time on a 40' yacht I spent a week
on in
Alaska. It lasted about a week or so. Then about 3 years
later I
went to Alaska again and spent another week on a like yacht. When
I got
off that time it lasted for 3-4 months and slowly decreased to just
afternoons
and evenings and finally was went away, at least that is the time
frame as
I remember it. I never went to a doctor. That was many
years ago,
at least 15 and maybe more.
I
knew it had something to do with the water and being on it
constantly and
overnight. I never got it when out on a boat on a lake or
floating for
hours down a river.
I
told several people about it and they said, oh take this or that before
and
during and you won't have that "motion sickness". But it was
not motion sickness and I knew that. Anyway, I had the
opportunity to go
on another one of those trips about 2 years ago and I was worried about
having
the same problem again, (something, as you know, I would not wish on
anyone) so
I got on the internet to find out what to take to stop it.
And
that is when I found the mdds site and realized that is what I
had. I joined,
but have not been active, so I wanted to share this with you. Of
course I
did not go on the trip.
This
past winter I had a horrible sinus infection. It lasted
about 4
weeks from start to finish and I was on antibiotics for two
weeks. And
guess what, I had the same symptoms after the sinus infection.
I
went to the mdds site and saw that "upper respiratory" (I am
recalling this from memory and maybe it said sinus) infections have
been known
to reinstate symptoms.
They
lasted about a month, were full time some days and part time others and
then
gradually went away.
That's
it. Got your email and read it today and decided I would share
this with
you. If you wish to put it somewhere on the site you have my
permission.
Hopefully
someday they will find a cure. I hope the lady working on it
comes up
with something. It certainly is a horrible thing to suffer
from. I
feel so very lucky that mine went away all three times.
William
H. "Bill" Smith
Cody, Wyoming
June 22, 2010
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