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The "A" drug your docs talked about is Avonex. Its a once per week interferon IM injection.

I've been on copaxone for 14 months, other than having 3 IPIRs its gone fine fo ...

This is a tough one, at first glance most of us would far rather have lipoatrophy than be at an EDSS of 9. But lipoatrophy to the degree you're describing (severely disfiguring) is very damaging to ...

Dexamethasone, like prednisone - is an anti inflammatory.

My Dr prefers to use dexamethasaone to treat MS relapses because he believes it is as effective if not more effective than prednisone with ...

My neuro strongly believes that dexamethasone is preferable to oral or even IV prednisone in treating relapses. Protocol that he has used is similar to what the paper talks about - 4 mg qds for 5 day ...

Thanks for the replies. To me, the IPIRs are much worse than any site reactions I have.

I'd like to ask the collective wisdom of the group as to what causes IPIRs. The leading theories are a vasc ...

I will make one last comment to dreddk, and that is some thoughts about the planning time horizon.

Take a look at the site http://mspipeline.wordpress.com and notice that there are ~20 drugs in pha ...

I have mostly been a lurker on this board, but I do post now and then. I have been on copaxone for 13 months now, and just got the results of my 1 year brain MRI. The results are favorable (some imp ...

I had to make the same decision that you are going through, in my case I was fortunate to not have the financial implications as I'm in the USA and I have good private insurance.

I read the Cochran ...

Thanks for posting that. Double dose copaxone has been in the literature before, from what I recall the skin reactions were greater than those experienced by the 20 mg cohort.

If I am not mistaken ...

At the risk of whistling on the way past the graveyard, I'll mention that
the studies I've read have only found lipoatrophy to occur in females.

One example of this is in the link below (take a ...

Actually I wouldn't be so cynical. I think that this is a fairly significant data point showing copaxone really does slow the disease down even over the long haul. The reduction in relapses to 0.1 ( ...

I would call Shared Solutions and ask them this question.

I'd also be concerned about finding a neurologist there that is familiar with treating MS. Assuming you had a valid prescription, I cannot ...

Another important factor is to make sure that your pharmacy chooses an appropriate filler. I do not know the details but I am pretty sure that delayed release is not appropriate. You might contact S ...

I am not aware of reimported copaxone being a factor in the US.

With a generic copaxone allegedly coming (from India) in the next few years perhaps we'll see more of this.

I know that the study has finished. Does anybody know when they will publish? Any inside word on the trial findings?