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A doctor with MS balks at using DMD's

Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 5:13 pm
by stazmatic
Here's another article to check out about a doctor with MS that balks at using the DMD's her neuro has pushed at her.

http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2012/08/pa ... the-doctor

Re: A doctor with MS balks at using DMD's

Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 11:50 am
by HarryZ
stazmatic wrote:Here's another article to check out about a doctor with MS that balks at using the DMD's her neuro has pushed at her.

http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2012/08/pa ... the-doctor
While it's a choice each and every MS patient has to make about medications, the DMDs have been greatly over rated on their effect on the patients who use them. Their efficacy is low, the side effects high and the cost far too much for drugs that have been around for a long time.

Re: A doctor with MS balks at using DMD's

Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 12:21 pm
by stazmatic
I agree with you Harry. I don't discredit MSers for wanting to take these medicines if it is their choice but no doctor has the right to guilt/coerce a patient into using one of the DMD's if the patient does not want to use one.