--- In wernicke_korsakoff_syndrome@yahoogroups.com, birdshawn@...
wrote:
>
WKS has been definetly
> ruled out.

I'm glad of that for you!

During the last 10 years though i have researched WKS to the
> max,what i have learned is that once you have it, you have it for
life, abstaining
> from alcohol will stop it from progressing any further but WKS
does not
> improve.

Wow, Shawn, this is exactly what I wanted to know. Thank you so
much. The thing with me is, I want to know all the little details
about whatever I've been diagnosed with. I have researched it on the
web, but there hasn't been much that I already didn't know: caused
by lack of thiamine, usually seen in alcoholics, blah blah blah. I
want to know more about it. My recovery has been, basically, a
miracle. My neurologist was so stunned when he saw me he was
laughing out loud. This was after I had been in rehab and then home
for a while. I realize I am not the norm in my good fortune.

I wonder, is there any "WKS charity" out there? Probably wouldn't be
called that! LOL I know I can do support work through AA or
something like that, but I am really too new to being better to do
anything like that yet. Does anyone know how widespread cases of WKS
is? I don't even know that. Am I one in a million? A thousand?
Duh, I don't know.

Enough silliness. Thanks so much for the info.

Sherry