Tag: disease modifying drugs
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43 hours without electricity
Not anything like what other people have gone through, but disturbing nonetheless.
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Too old for Gilenya?
This article concludes that all DMT drugs that work on MS begin to decrease in efficacy after the age of 53.
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Isn’t investing gambling?
Well OK, yes and no.
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Genial Gilenya®️
I am now taking the oral medication Gilenya (fingolimod). I call it genial because compared to giving myself daily shots, it is just a daily pill. But “genial” by no means suggests benign.
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Troublesome Tysabri®️
In 2004, a new MS drug was approved by the FDA. As opposed to an interferon, Tysabri (natalizumab) is “a monoclonal antibody.” Then PML starts.
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Caustic Copaxone®️
My liver toxicity from Avonex meant that I couldn’t take anything else with interferon, ruling out all other MS drugs at the time, except for one: Copaxone.
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Anxious Avonex®️
In December 2000 my doctor and I decided to start me on Avonex. The injections begin!
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Before Betaseron®️
In April 1991, the doctor told me I had probable MS. Even with the confirmation of the MRI, which could show multiple brain lesions in a live person as opposed to autopsy after death, the presence of multiple lesions only mostly confirms it.
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Lorna’s brief history of the ADA
As an MSer, I feel like I’m kinda late to the party with regards to understanding how important the ADA is. I was diagnosed in 1991 but didn’t really experience physical disability until later in my life. Why I care The NMSS says “The ADA covers almost everyone with MS — not only people…
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MS and the DMTs
There still is no way to definitively diagnose and no cure but there are now more than 15 drugs to try to halt progression, sometimes called disease-modifying therapies or treatments, DMTs.