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Hello. Been awhile since I've been here but wanted to see if anyone on this forum is on Kaiser. My husband (who has psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis) and I (MS) run our own business and have been paying our own premiums for Blue Shield, which (at over $1,200/month), have become burdensome. The only...

Someone may have posted this already but I missed it: ANA: Impaired Gene Cluster Singled Out in Multiple Sclerosis By Paula Moyer, MedPage Today Staff Writer Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. September 27, 2005 MedPage Today Acti...

Thanks to all who have posted... and those who will! Please, keep up the good work.

I spoke to my friend and he's very impressed with the fast response. I told him we MSers are an active and participative group!

By the way, if you want to hear one of the MS-oriented shows they've done, it's here:

http://lifeloveandhealth.com/archives-05-dec.htm

Fourth from the top.

I have a friend who does a radio show called Life Love & Health. It's on XM and a few NPR affiliates, as well as internationally on Voice of America and American Forces Network. He's done a show or two about MS and I've been coaxing him to do more, so he agreed to put a poll on the show's website ab...

I had a bout of hives a year into starting Copaxone... Well, it didn't make a lot of sense as to why after a year I would start to get hives... Dunmann. Interesting how many of us have had hives. Hives, also known as urticaria, are, as folks have said, a systemic reaction to... something. Histamine...

Hi Thomas, Did you see my earlier post about what my neuro said regarding steroids vs. hospital stays? http://thisisms.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1992 Stress definitely contributes. There is no question. My first symptoms came on during a VERY stressful period. I also believe I wen...

Thanks, Ian. That was very encouraging. It helps to know how truly committed they are to have responded to you in such detail. It's also important to note that research is not just ongoing into MS, but into all the immune-related diseases and, as we've probably all heard, advances in one area lead t...

Thanks, Dignan. Sounds like an interesting study.

Can anyone lead me to the latest on what, if anything, can be done to lessen the likelihood of an exacerbation after giving birth? I found this article about a trial of intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) given at time of delivery, but it's from 2001: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/413713 And th...

I've been having dizzy spells for years. Used to be, they'd come on for a few seconds, then pass, so I didn't worry about them. I assumed everyone had them. In the past year (since my diagnosis) they became worse, almost to the point that I couldn't function. I'd wake up feeling fine for a few minut...

I send my love to you, Ian. And to everyone else on this site. We are here for each other, when we need each other.

If both got the same immediate symptom relief that is really interesting, if it was that they both were the same at 6 months then seemingly it means that both are equally ineffective essentially. I wish I could see it...marie In my best interpretation of what we discussed, I believe she was referri...

Fascinating theories on the emerging belief that our hyper-sterile world may be making us sick--and that we need worms in our GI tracts to help us stay healthy.

Focuses on Crohn's disease but multiple sclerosis is mentioned.

http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_chann ... oryid=3573

The uncertainty kills me. The usual response from people is that no-body knows their future 'you could be knocked down by a bus tomorrow'. I hate that response. Simply, it's crap. Here's what I tell people. No, nobody knows exactly what their future will be. But I now know that I have a statistical...