New from Dayton, Ohio
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:56 am
Hello All,
I'm Lew Chapman from Dayton, Ohio. I am a 40 year old, white male that has had MS for 5 years now. I'm very high functioning in that none of my symptoms affect my motor ability now. I have horrible Optic Neuritis, bladder and bowel issues and lots of tingling and numbness. The only thing that approaches debilitating is when my bladder makes me pee every ten minutes. And truthfully I would call that more of a nuisance since I still can do it on my own. The bad part is that it keeps me up all night and I suffer from sleep deprivation.
I am entering the Phase IIb of a trial on a drug called Tovaxin. This is the MS vaccine from PharmaFrontiers. I am very excited about being in this trial as even if you get placebo, you still get the real thing when it is over since it is only good for you (it is made from you own stem cells and does no one else any good). Very promising outlook for this drug and I plan to update on here as it goes by.
I just wanted to introduce myself!
I'm Lew Chapman from Dayton, Ohio. I am a 40 year old, white male that has had MS for 5 years now. I'm very high functioning in that none of my symptoms affect my motor ability now. I have horrible Optic Neuritis, bladder and bowel issues and lots of tingling and numbness. The only thing that approaches debilitating is when my bladder makes me pee every ten minutes. And truthfully I would call that more of a nuisance since I still can do it on my own. The bad part is that it keeps me up all night and I suffer from sleep deprivation.
I am entering the Phase IIb of a trial on a drug called Tovaxin. This is the MS vaccine from PharmaFrontiers. I am very excited about being in this trial as even if you get placebo, you still get the real thing when it is over since it is only good for you (it is made from you own stem cells and does no one else any good). Very promising outlook for this drug and I plan to update on here as it goes by.
I just wanted to introduce myself!
