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I Googled "Avonex cold" and ended up here. I read through these posts and even saw my own from November 2010. I have a bad cold: aches and pains, sore throat, some sinus goop. My 5 mo. old babies had it first: the girl kicked it right away, and the boy got a very bad case of congestion, wh...

I have been doing a modified/updated version of Dr. Swank's diet since I was diagnosed in 2007, and I highly recommend giving it a serious look. By "updated" I mean that the recipes that form the 2nd half of Dr. Swank's book are very dated (think 1950s cooking...1980s at best), and I prefe...

NHE, you are such a prolific and well-informed member of ThisIsMS -- kudos. I have a cold, and I was wondering if it was a bad idea -- or a really really good idea --- to take Avonex while fighting off a cold. I Googled and I poked all round the Avonex (Biogen Idec) site, coming up with nothing usef...

Thank you for telling us about your experience with Rituxan. I hope you will keep reporting on your condition here, whether you have any or no side effects, improvement (or not) in your symptoms, etc.

Keep moving,
Longing4Cheese (Jack Sprat)

Especially if one does not have dramatic symptoms, it's hard to determine a direct cause and effect relationship between treatment and symptoms, whether it's drugs or "lifestyle," or that in-between area (in my opinion), what one puts in one's body every day, aka FOOD. I have not shown any...

I think it's a good thing to post on a good forum to whatever extent you feel like. I am a pro-active patient compared to most people, and I have been searching hither and yon for information. Of the several sites where I have "joined," I find that ThisIsMS has the most informed and intell...

Well, it turns out that, after 6 months almost to the day on Copaxone, I seem to have developed an allergy to it. On June 4 I had a reaction to Copaxone that lasted almost an hour, and included features like a swelling face and mouth, stiff eye muscles (the ones that move the eyeballs), and a tickle...

I read his book Climbing Higher ... what an embarrassing display of self-absorption, even for a "memoir"-genre publication. I really didn't need to know all the ins and outs (ahem...) of his sex life with various "ladies" he was involved with... it wasn't so much the graphicness ...

I read this now, in January 2009, and, as a new Copaxone user (5th injection tonight...not fun...maybe a 4.5 sting rating?), I'm looking for anything I can do to make the "hey, that wasn't so bad" experiences more reliably frequent. So I'll try it out. At the very least, I'll get a massage...

If you haven't had any identifiable "attacks" or spells or symptoms that occurred, lasted days to weeks, then got better (or mostly better), then you don't neatly fit into the description of RRMS, which 85% of MSers are. If you have very gradually declining ability to walk, weakness in a l...

I have had an interesting turn in my MS journey: I was Dx in June 2007, and have seen a total of three different neuros, at least one of whom is a well-known MS researcher and professor at UCLA. Everyone said I had PPMS. However, a few weeks ago I saw a top MS specialist at USC, and he questioned me...

Forgive me if this is already covered -- I did search for "autism" in the Antibiotics forum and got zero results. So, this may be very interesting news... UCR Researchers Propose Minocycline as a Promising Drug for Patients with Fragile X Syndrome RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A UC Riverside-led tea...

I got a POUND of N-Acetyl L-Carnitine for about $32 (incl. shipping) from www.trueprotein.com, a body-building supplements site. It was hard to find the supplements area at first; click on Formulas and then pull down to Custom Solutions. You can dial in custom blends of supplements by percentages; y...

Yes, I've read Howard Weiner's book, Curing MS, and heard him speak at the same event where I heard Leslie P. Weiner (it was at the Nancy Davis Foundation "Roundtable" (actually several tiers of tables, facing a conference room with several hundred chairs set up; about 2/3 filled with audi...

Thanks for the clarification. I actually thought that was a very common reaction. I have a friend on Avonex, and of course have read many accounts online about people's struggles with the once weekly "shot night" phenomenon. I have been imagining that the reaction you describe is fairly ty...