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Great topic! I suffer bouts of guilt over feeling sexually "demanding" - I hate to add to fatigue. I have been running my own experiment and I think the emotional positives must out weight the physical stuff. Robbin has ED (cialis works for 3 - 4 days on him!) and he has diminished sensiti...

so your feeling isn't that it is more prevalent today..... just better diagnostics. From my observation I have worked in a Dr.'s office for the last 20 years in a small town. For many years we didn't have 1 patient with MS, then we had 1, a woman. Now we have 6 all diagnosed in the last few months! ...

Robbin's neuro at OHSU has done MRI's of the brain, c-spine, and the rest of the spine twice since FEB '08. On it you could see the old original lesions plus several new ones that were lighting up. On the spine he seems to have 3 lesions and that seemed to be the most disturbing part to the neuro. W...

I like what you said Harry.... I just can't wrap my mind around all these drugs that basically destroy the immune system. It seems counter intuitive to the way we are designed. Also is it me or does it seem like MS diagnosis is on the up swing. Everyone I run into seems to have MS somewhere in their...

For a heavy beer drinker I think this would be a good place to start. I feel like this makes a lot of sense - if not an answer for MS benificial for most everyone! Have to "sell" the idea to Robbin tho - Was it really hard to adhere to? And it sounds like your looking at a couple months - ...

Why do y'all think about the theory that it's an weak immune system going wacky that is the culprit in this and other auto immune disease?

Robbin goes through these dark periods where he says I should find someone else that's not so f-ed up, that I should move on, that he won't be around long.....etc. Then he gets like he doesn't even want to take his meds or do things for his health. Angry, upset, rebellious..... I assume this is part...

What a great, supportive group! I hope in time I can get him to post.... right now I am the information gatherer/digester/buffer. I get the physical aspects of this thing..... it's his emotional ones that are hard for me. He's angry life is changing.... he's angry, frustrated, sad - I'll check out t...

I'm new to all of this since my boyfriends diagnosis on Valentines day '08. We were high school sweeties that went separate ways - only to reunite (after 23 years) and discover this demon is in our future. The phrase "this isn't fair" comes to mind often. He is 41 and has always been healt...