Has anybody looked into the emotional/conflicted theory of MS and other auto-immune issues, lyme, CFS, FIBRO, etc, cancers.  German New Medicine Dr. Hamer almost always found a "conflict-shock" in patients with cancers or other serious illness.  These could be traumas (adoptions, attempted abortion, rape, abuse, divorce, fear, etc.)  He worked with the people to resolve their conflicts and most of the time the "illness" went away.  Personally i believe it is all big.  Good nutrition, lifestyle factors, environment go a long way, but your just fighting uphill all the way unless you resolve the emotional factors as well.  Personally, i think that's why so many people struggle for years and years only to have problems linger around.  Everyone is different.  Always find your own "Nails in your feet," and remove them to achieve lasting health/wellness.

joej627 fantastic point. I think he is the same doctor that has cured thousands of cancer and other terrible diseases through the "emotional" side and which is over looked. Good post and point. Stress , underlying conflicts, guilt, anger, insecurity , the list goes on, whether someone had it recently or something engraved in the grey matter of their brain from a very young age that they never got over and its built over time. I think we should absolutely start looking and the emotional side. Ill be the first one to say this, without going into depth and writing a book and boring you all, mentally I'm a pretty tough person at same time caring and i have my emotions. When i went down this past couple months HARD .. i mean, nervous breakdown at it worst, i can see how "emotions" come up or start to surface. I thought I was dieing, doctors are no help, all tests so far have been normal and will do a few more just so i feel better but i took all those tests straight to my functional medicine doctor. She put me through some tests and i was a basket case to that point when i walked in (shaking, barely breath, heart was NOT racing but so tired is was beating slow when sitting then really fast when i moved) Besides allergies , which is critical to know about food which she can relieve me of, she didn't even treat me for that. From today and the next couple weeks, her acupuncture and her NAET and other training was all focused on guilt, stress, failure, sadness, depression .. etc.. i had been a mess and after the treatment, i was a new man, at least start off.

Lance Armstrong though he went the mainstream medicine way mostly to beat his cancer, his attitude (and he had obviously support of tonsss of people which many of us might not have) but his attitude if you've watched the videos was top notch, spot on, positive  and stating I'm going to be biking again.

If you don't have either admitted , worked with someone or released any conflicting built up emotions, it would be tough to beat anything. I agree joej627 and we need to get more information.. sorry for the book

JP