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Have you talked to your neuro about Gilenya? I know many doctors are hesitant about prescribing due to safety concerns but if you are unable to do shots and have been on two DMTs, he or she may be persuaded? Also BG12 will probably be approved at the end of 2012 but that is a year away.

Correction, they did use 12,000iu total. And they did measure blood levels. The main criticism of study length and sample size still stands, but a little disappointing. I do know that there is a properly powered trial with vitamin D as an add on to interferon treatment, but because they are doing it...

Yeah, it probably takes at least a month to start to raise your blood levels if not more. And it may probably take 3 months at target blood levels to begin to have an impact. Also the 6,000 iu compared 1,000 iu is not as big of a difference compared to other small trials which averaged between 10k a...

I have been on Rebif for about a year. I realize relapse can be pretty random but chances are one is going to happen relatively soon. If I feel I am having a relapse, should i inject the medication during the exacerbation?

I am a bit of lurker here but my main question w/ vitamin d is whether or not it impact men and women equally. I don't have any paper reference handy, but that it doesn't "work" in men or at least not as well.

Does anyone here have any information?

Hi, I am new to the forums and have question that maybe someone here can help me out. I have been on Rebif since September of 2010 and my first MS attack was relatively severe in May-July of 2010. My recent blood work showed normal liver enzymes and slighly below normal white blood cell count (espec...