Hi Patty, we live in the UK. Ella has seen a Geneticist and a Neurologist. The Neurologist diagnosed her from all tests including the MRI scans which clearly showed atrophy of the cerebellum etc between the MRI's. There are not tests here for most of the SCA types. Freidrichs was apparently ruled out although they then said it still could be if it ... more

Hi Patty, I am so pleased to get your reply thankyou. The doctors have not diagnosed which type my daughter has. Ella seems to be confusing the docs a bit. She has alot of the symptoms of Freidrichs (bad spelling sorry!) but she has been tested for that and it was negative. But, they then said that the test might be incorrect as it only tests part ... more

Hi, I was raped in the past and i have now had a borderline result smear test and am waiting for the result of the repeat smear a few months later. I am worried sick about the symptoms i am having of pain and intermittent bleeding and discharge and wonder if i have cervical cancer could it have been caused by the rape. It was a particularly violent... more