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HarryZ,

I'm sorry to hear of Marg's passing.
I've been so impressed with your devotion to her, your unending search for answers, and your willingness to share your knowledge with us .

I will ...

Sorry to be so slow with a reply - I just saw this post.

There is a seperate forum for Novantrone here on ThisIsMS
It does not appear to be very active, but if you post there hopefully you will ge ...

Yes I think it's pretty universally accepted that if a patient develops NABs to interferon treatment then that treatment will be less effective and other options may need to be explored (from Teva's p ...

Remyelination is extensive in a subset of multiple sclerosis patients.

In 20% of the patients, the extent of remyelination was extensive with 60-96% of the global lesion area remyelinated. Extens ...

Does anyone know if there is any correlation between Lesion patterns and types of MS? or severities of MS?

My MRI, as of almost a year ago had many lesions, it looked like buck-shot scattered ove ...

I saw this as well.

I held out some glimmer of hope when I came across an Argyll Medical Group, but then Argyll Financial group popped up... Rolling Eyes

The first thing that jumped out at me was th ...

“Dr. Swank’s study was long-lasting, but poorly designed by today’s standards,” Dr. Bowling comments. As of yet, he adds, “no well-designed clinical trial has considered whether decreasing dietary sou ...

I'm glad you posted this question. I'm interested in what others are doing as well.

You're right about there being many, many studies on one supplement or another floating around. Enough to make yo ...

Axion, you mentionned that lesions in optic nerve and spinal cord mean something in terms of prognosis, I didn't know that, Can you explain please, thanks Carole

Sorry to be so slow responding - ju ...

Good point

I don't know that I've seen any MS research address that, though it certainly makes sense.

Look at children who have had a hemispherectomy. I'm amazed at how plastic their brains are ...

Wesley,

Other than the fact that spinal chord and optic nerve involvement seem to predict type of disability with fairly good correlation, I do seem to remember reading at least one study on lesion ...

Bromley,
I watched all the MRI clips.

Pretty much same old same old:

initial lesion load is strongly predictive of progression both clinically and pathologically as a whole; however, correlati ...

Theresa,

I am so sorry.
It seems like more and more kids are being DX and at younger ages.
So very difficult for all involved.

I'm fairly new to the MS world and am still trying to find out ...

Has anybody read the Gold Coast Cure?

I just got a copy.

Seems it's based on the Swank diet but incorporates a bit of newer research.

A lot of the information looks to me to be fairly com ...

Have you had school/medical issues with your teen (or younger child) who has an MS Dx, and if so how have you handled them?

Edited to take out all the personal "stuff" since this was getting lots o ...