False hope for autism in the stem-cell underground
There is a lot of misinformation related to stem cells, and a lot of uneducated and desperate people being taken advantage of by doctors - whether there&#x27;s malice or not is another question.<p>I have been struggling with and problem solving chronic pain for many years now. Stem cells have been the only thing to help heal the sources of injury, and so I have done plenty of research over the years, followed and understood where research is at, what treatments are available, and how limited the availability for best treatments actually are. It has been very difficult to find a clinic willing to treat my fairly unique case, as for me, aside from severe post-LASIK eye pain from corrective eye surgeries 5 years ago that seems to have triggered the cascade of chronic pain-related problems I&#x27;ve had, I have many minor but significant pains throughout my body. Injuries from high school football, I dislocated jaw 2 years ago, whiplash from a bicycle collision around 2 years ago, and so on. In total the amount of pain leads to something called Central Sensitization - and that disrupts my executive function, decision making, and emotional processing. The protocol I had started doing was from bone marrow aspiration (pulling out your own bone marrow as stem cell source), doing post-processing, and then re-injecting at sources of pain for healing. It was working, however each treatment they have limited fluid and could only treat so many of the injuries - and there&#x27;s no treatment or cure for post-LASIK neuropathic known yet, which seems to be the largest offender&#x2F;contributor to my nervous system being overwhelmed. The problem with this route is the clinic requires 4 to 6 months between treatments, so at that rate it would take 3+ years to try to target all of the sources of injuries with injections, and once again not being able to attempt to heal the post-LASIK surgery corneal pain.<p>I had been trying to find a holistic option or better protocol that would initiate healing throughout my body or provide more bone marrow, my own stem cells, via culturing them outside the body - or an IV or &quot;zero day&quot;&#x2F;day-old MSC cells taken and cultured from umbilical cord waste tissue of births - however the two clinics I asked about it denied me as being a candidate. I&#x27;ve been desperate, was desperate and out of options and out hope until a few weeks ago.<p>I flew to the Europe a few days ago. Yesterday I did my first fetal stem cell treatment at the clinic here that I only found out existed 2.5 weeks ago - randomly through a regular patron at a cafe I would frequent and shared my story with - to which he told me about a documentary on the clinic that his friend went to and raved about.<p>The word fetal stem cells isn&#x27;t uttered at any clinics in the US due to the political and religious backlash - and they aren&#x27;t legal or available to use in the US, however they are the most multi-potent stem cells there are. The age and potency (multi-potency capability) of the stem cells used matter. Your own stem cells being the age you are with their slower duplication rate and limited as to what cells they can differentiate into, and the fetal tissue being used being 7 to 12 weeks of age - after 9 months these fetal stem cells would otherwise form a whole human, a baby, and with their multi-potent capability differentiate into every cell possible - with extremely fast cell duplication time.<p>The clinic uses legally aborted fetuses (donated and tested). The healing, autoimmune regulation, tissue regeneration, etc take different amounts of time depending on what&#x27;s going on and how progressed a dis-ease state is.<p>Later today I go back to the clinic for the second round of treatment. The first was liver fetal stem cell tissue injected through IV, and today they will inject into tummy adipose (fat) a variety of other specific fetal tissues to allow them to culture there; the most stable body temperature is there, and is best for growth. This clinic has been using and doing research with fetal stem cells for 25+ years now.<p>Autism isn&#x27;t one-solution-fits-all, the right stem cells seem to be able to greatly reverse symptoms - at least it seems if the autism is autoimmune related. A common problem that exists is the phrase &quot;stem cells&quot; is used in a non-specific way all the time, likewise the &quot;wow&quot; factor and language used to describe benefits seems to overlay a lot - whether that is malicious, greed, carelessness or a combination - I&#x27;m sure it varies based on each person&#x27;s integrity who&#x27;s able or looking to earn revenue or make profit. It does however take pioneers, likely people who are desperate who are willing to try different treatment options - who then will create the positive stories and trustworthy referrals. Regulation and educating the population about the differences, along with research to evolve our understanding, knowledge, and treatments further are needed. There is also the status quo medical industrial complex that has their eggs in some baskets that aren&#x27;t required anymore with how stem cells can heal.<p>It&#x27;s too early for me to feel comfortable giving an update of how I feel after the first IV treatment, and I&#x27;ll want to wait and see after the treatment today goes today before commenting publicly. In paraphrasing, I was told whatever healing would happen would happen by 3 months - specific for how I described the pain. The doctor believed it should help as well, seeing as I had previously done bone marrow derived stem cell treatments that were healing the sources of pain that were injected. If or once the pain is low enough then I will have to go through physical rehabilitation to get proper realignment again, strengthen muscles properly. It will take time for my brain and reactions to adjust too to the pain, and with reduced impact my executive function will be less impacted - and so there should be a cascade of shifts there as well in how capable I feel and my overall quality of life. It&#x27;s too soon to say, however the fetal stem cells are the absolute best chance I have for quickly healing - based on my previous experiences with stem cell and my research. The logic of it has me hopeful.