Minocycline is an oral antibiotic that is now showing great promise as a possible MS therapy that is easy to administer, affordable, and most important-- potentially effective. Along with the below article, there are a number of posts about minocycline in the Forums section of our site; do your research and while this research is very early, have hope that a readily-available drug could be very useful for MS.

"What makes minocycline even more exciting is that it is taken orally, eliminating the need for injections. And it costs only $80 a month, instead of thousands of dollars a month for other MS drugs.

The Calgary researchers made their findings after following 10 patients with the most common type of MS, called "relapsing-remitting." The disease brings on attacks in patients through lesions in the brain or spinal tissues.

The researchers found that minocycline substantially reduced the activity of the lesions by blocking the tissue from developing."

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