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My husband was recently diagnosed with MS and his doctor prescribed Avonex for him. I received a phone call yesterday stating that our copay is $750. OMG, there's no way in hell we can pay that. That's injections for only one month. How do they expect people to be able to do that? They told me that ...

My husband was recently diagnosed with MS and his doctor prescribed Avonex for him. I received a phone call yesterday stating that our copay is $750. OMG, there's no way in hell we can pay that. That's injections for only one month. How do they expect people to be able to do that? They told me that ...

Thanks so much for all of the wonderful advice. My husband and I have been communicating with each other over the past week (probably better than we did before he was diagnosed with MS). I am trying to make sure that he understands that he's not in this alone. This affects both of us as well as our ...

Thanks for the responses. Ken, I don't know what type of MS he has yet. We didn't know that there were different types of MS until after his visit with the doctor. That's on the list of questions to ask her at our next visit next month. She has him scheduled to begin taking Avonex, he hasn't started...

My husband was recently diagnosed with MS last week. He was hospitalized right before Christmas because he lost complete balance and coordination on his left side (arm and leg). Since we received his diagnosis and he returned to work I won't let him do much at home because I'm afraid that he will ha...