Dear Tessa (at Post Polio Clinic in Western Australia) I have been taking the supplements that you suggested and I do feel better. I have more energy during...
My mother contracted polio when she was pregnant with me and now close to 50, I am experiencing PPS. I have read your article on carnitine with great...
My mother had polio in 1934. At age 39 I began having extreme weakness, SEVERE fatigue, SEVERE nausea, tremors, muscle twitches, muscle pain in shoulders,...
There are international cautions that have been out for at least 15 years on use of valium by post polios. We have had several here in Western Australia who...
I read your letter in the PPS Manager and I have some questions for you. Do you have any siblings younger than you who have had problems possibly related to...
Joan, One of the reasons that the doctors do not believe us is because when the children of polio mothers were born they did not have the problems that they...
Thanks to IPPSO and wonderful people like you, my life has turned around. I'm off all arthritis medicine and other pain killers and I'm doing better than...
Hi, My name is Mary. I am 48 years old and was born with a birth defect due to polio in the womb. My mother was diagnosed with polio and told she was 6 weeks...
My mother was diagnosed with polio, head drawn back, not sure which one she had. She was told that she was 6 weeks pregnant with me at that time. She lived...
"Will the baby be alright?" This was the first question my parents asked the doctors when, three months pregnant with me, my mother contracted polio. That...
Hello David I saw your article in my parents Post Polio newsletter (June 2005 Perth Western Australia) and my Mum suggested I contact you. My Mum contracted...
Hi David, My mother had polio, too. I remember being a child complaining of knee pain and my mother telling me it was "growing pains" also. I stopped growing...
Dear Gigi, Thank you for your e-mail. There seem to be more of us out there than any one expected. I encourage you to follow up on this. It's a frustrating...
Hello David my mother has passed on to me a copy of your article "To the children of polio mothers". I'm making contact with you in the hope that your...
Hello David My mum recives the post polio newsletter vol 16 june 2005, your article on page 6 gained my interest, my mum contacted polio when she was 4 yrs...
My name is Sonya. My mother had polio as a child. She was diagnosed with post polio syndrome about 10 years ago. I have been experiencing very extreme...
Hi David. I was so happy to hear from you. It's like meeting someone for the first time that might know what I am going through. My father died last August and...
Hi My mother had Polio when she was 9 and has suffered ever since, it is now coming to our attention because my siblings and myself have many problems, My...
I just read an article from Post Polio Group's March newsletter in Volusia/Flagler. I contracted polio when I was 5 weeks of age in New York (1953), and am...
Let's be clear that in the case of children born after the parent had polio that it is NOT a case of passing on the polio virus in any form. It's the health of...
MY NAME IS JESSICA AND I'M RESPONDING TO YOUR ARTICLE THAT WAS POSTED ON OUR LOCAL POST POLIO SUPPORT GROUP WEB PAGE. MY MOM HAD POLIO WHEN SHE WAS A LIITLE...
Hello I am glad to find your site; it has been hard to find anything on children born to mothers who had Polio. My mother had polio when she was 13 and was...
Hi Debbie Thanks for the new board; I am still trying to get on there; I feel challenged in this sometimes-those first steps. haha!! ... the one thing I know...
Hi Glennda, I hope you have finally got through to see the messages. To answer some of your questions: Overdoing it - it used to be that if I got tired, I...
In answer to the question on Yahoo Questions: Can Polio be passed from the father to the baby... even though the virus is no longer in his body and was not...
ALERT - The health of your children and grand-children may also be at risk because you had Polio We have always been told that polio, as an infectious disease,...
Tessa Thanks for posting this article; the carnitine is helping me quite a bit and magnesium is also a big part of my better health. All because you cared...
Polio literature has for many years, mentioned polio survivors experiencing fibromyalgia. In Western Australia we have been successfully treating this with...
Dear Debbie/Tessa, thanks for taking the trouble to send me your magazine, I find it really interesting. I cannot find any useful information on carnitine...
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