Tag: MS research
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My favorite tales (as inspiration)
I sometimes forget that multiple sclerosis is a serious disease.
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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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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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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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MS or gout
Obviously I’m not a scientist. But clearly, I think the relationship between uric acid and brain inflammation should continue to interest scientists.
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1M U.S. MSers
When I got the same answer that they had been giving for years: that there were approx. 400,000 people in the US living with it, I knew that wasn’t correct. Does’t everybody know at least someone afflicted with this disease?
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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.
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Hello? MS is still here
It’s March 2018. MS is still here. So I’m introducing it again in case you all forgot.
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The biotin protocol
The protocol, created by the company MedDay Pharmaceuticals in France, tests high-doses of the vitamin Biotin. The trial aims to prove that high-dose biotin can reverse disability in non-active progressive MS.