Greetings!! I hope this is does not come across as me being rude or anything. I am A 35 beteseron guy! The wife and I are trying to conceive. I have been reading that beteseron may affect the mans sperm count. A lot of what I see is all positive women related items with some mixed in woman problems via google. I am freaking out, because I want to give us the best chance possible. ...

Our household income exceeds the income requirements for the patient assistance programs. Are there any other options besides paying the full amount out of pocket? The meds would still cost more than a 1/3 of what we make!

I have 3 months/boxes of 15 injections of Betaferon 250microgram/ml due to change of treatment. Exp date 10.2013 Reply if interested, thx

Has anyone else on here experienced joint pain with Betasaron. After a few injections I started hurting on the same leg my foot drop had previously been on. My ankle and knee....and then my elbow started having pains. Got checked for a UTI and did not have one.

Patients with primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS) who took interferon-beta-1b for two years in a randomized trial continued to show improvement relative five years later, Spanish researchers said.

Although the patients received no further interferon treatment after the randomized trial ended, those who had taken the drug during the study had both better scores for functional outcomes and better MRI evaluations at follow-up than those who had been treated with placebo, according to Xavier ...

I get a lot of "knots" after I inject. I take Ibuprofen an hour before I inject, I use the Betaject and I massage the area right after, but I get these knots that last sometimes for many days. And they can be quite painful as well. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks.

Has anyone living in the US ever had to order Betaseron while traveling overseas? If so, how did you get it in another country? Is it cheaper in Europe? I called Betaseron and they said they only thing to do would be to have it shipped to someone in the US and they can personally ship it to wherever I am overseas, but I don't want to ask someone to take the responsibility for $4K ...

I was diagnosed with MS May 13, 2011 and started Betaseron treatment on Monday June 27, 2011.

The BetaNurse was amazing and made the whole process simple. I used the Betaject device for my first shot on my upper right arm and it worked just fine. Tonight is shot #2 and I plan to try a manual injection in the right thigh.

I didn't not experience any obvious side effects. The injection site was slightly ...

I have been placed on Copaxone from Betaseron. I have 2 auto injectors if anyone is interested.

Please send me a PM with address and I will be happy to send them to you.

Jimmy

Tracking down nearly all 372 multiple sclerosis patients involved in a pivotal clinical trial of a drug decades ago has allowed a group of researchers from several institutions, led by professors at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the University of Chicago, to a surprising discovery.

The clinical trial, conducted in the late 1980s, involved the biotech drug interferon beta-1b – an injectable protein that in 1993 became the first pharmaceutical approved ...