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Just wondering if this was common...if this fits into the chronic infection theory...I never had given it much thought..but thinking back...I had horrible cough that wouldn't go away years ago..went to the doctor and she suspected Mycoplasma pneumonia...treated with antibiotics...got better. It was ...

Cure or Bust, What kind of reaction did you have to Rebif?

Wendy

To make things more complicated...he says that the Steroid treatments that I have taken intermittently may have also been treating my arthritis and who knows how long I have had it....don't know how much of the aches/pains/fatigue have been from the MS and what has been the other. May take a while t...

I was diagnosed with RRMS in 9/02...have been on Betaseron (stopped working) then Copaxone and now Rebif....after 3 months of Rebif now I apparently have some sort of arthritis (still getting workup to see what) My rheumatologist says that the interferons can induce autoimmune processes...he didn't ...

I had heard of the theories of mycoplasma, Cpn, etc being a cause for MS. but to be honest I had kind of blown it off because I figured it it was true there would be more talk about it...internet searches (Google) have only led me to info from way back in 1999 with the doc at Vanderbilt (siriam?). I...

Sharon, thanks for the link....I was wondering if it could be linked to the Rebif..I switched from Copaxone to Rebif 3 months ago and these symptoms started about 5-6 weeks after starting it. I did some internet searching to see if there had been any reports of such things and didn't come up with an...

I have RRMS...diagnosed 9/02. Now it appears I have a new disease to add to my list...Polymyalgia Rheumatica...anybody else have the pleasure of this wonderful disease or even heard of it. Seems to be another autoimmune disease...pain in the shoulders/chest/back...went to the doctor because these we...

Hello Eyedoc, I also wanted to say welcome...and I'm sorry. You are the first physician I have seen here with MS...I am a pediatrician and was diagnosed with MS in September of '02 and had to retire due to fatigue and concentration problems in March of '03...I had only been out of residency for 3 ye...

THANKS GUYS...I GO SEE MY NEURO ON WEDNESDAY AND MAYBE HE WILL ARRANGE FOR THE GLASSES.

RIGHT NOW IT DOESN'T GET BETTER OR WORSE...IT'S CONSTANT.

WENDY

I'M HAVING DOUBLE VISION FOR THE FIRST TIME. IT'S LASTED 2 WEEKS SO FAR. I KNOW PATCHING HELPS FOR SHORT PERIODS OF TIME. JUST WONDERING HOW LONG OTHER'S BOUTS WITH IT HAVE LASTED...I KNOW EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT...ANY INFO ON EXERCISES FOR MY EYES TO HELP GET THE MUSCLE STRENGTH BACK QUICKER? I THINK...

Heat didn't really bother me much until the last few months. I actually went to DisneyWorld during the fourth of July last year with near 100 degree heat and was no more miserable than everybody else. but now it totally drains me. I wasn't really experiencing muscle weakness last summer but now that...