Hormone link - wish I would have known.
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 12:23 pm
I am writing this note because 20/20 is hindsight, and if what my experience is teachng me might help someone - I would be grateful.
I was diagnosed n 2005. My husband and I had two healty children. My Ms came on quickly and strong, but settled down and was responding well enough to copaxone when we decided to have our third child. I stopped all meds in mid 2007, and we concieved our baby quickly. Our pregnancy was perfect. I was so strong. All of my symptoms resolved themselves. I lived for 18 months, a life before this crazy awful journey with MS began. The time including the pregnancy and the entire time that I was nursing my baby I was completly symptom free. After he was born, and while I was nursing, I was being treated with monthly infusions of IVIG. However, I was sure that it was just a precaution and somehow I was in a deep remission. When my son started to self-ween himself at 9 months, I just let him. I did not immediatly begin any other therapy.
Within two weeks of not producing milk I had my first major flair. That was in October 2008. Since then there have been at least two more, which did not responding to steroids. I am grateful that I came home from the hospital before Christmas to be with my three beautiful and healthy children. We did plasma exchange that seems to have been somewhat helpful - but not without complications.
I guess I am sharing this story because I wish that I would have had the foresight to have kept my own horemone levels up, by expressing milk, while I began therapy sooner. Something, anything to have prevented, or minimised the current situation that I am in now.
Warmly,
Kathy
I was diagnosed n 2005. My husband and I had two healty children. My Ms came on quickly and strong, but settled down and was responding well enough to copaxone when we decided to have our third child. I stopped all meds in mid 2007, and we concieved our baby quickly. Our pregnancy was perfect. I was so strong. All of my symptoms resolved themselves. I lived for 18 months, a life before this crazy awful journey with MS began. The time including the pregnancy and the entire time that I was nursing my baby I was completly symptom free. After he was born, and while I was nursing, I was being treated with monthly infusions of IVIG. However, I was sure that it was just a precaution and somehow I was in a deep remission. When my son started to self-ween himself at 9 months, I just let him. I did not immediatly begin any other therapy.
Within two weeks of not producing milk I had my first major flair. That was in October 2008. Since then there have been at least two more, which did not responding to steroids. I am grateful that I came home from the hospital before Christmas to be with my three beautiful and healthy children. We did plasma exchange that seems to have been somewhat helpful - but not without complications.
I guess I am sharing this story because I wish that I would have had the foresight to have kept my own horemone levels up, by expressing milk, while I began therapy sooner. Something, anything to have prevented, or minimised the current situation that I am in now.
Warmly,
Kathy