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Anyone on plegridy? I am considering switching from Rebif (6 years). I was on Avonex 8 years and it made me horribly depressed. Rebif doesn't for some reason. Maybe because I am on 22 mg.

Any info would be appreciated.

Took Avonex for 10 years. Flu-like symptoms, fake fever with horrific chills, massive full-body cramps, intolerable pain, and unacceptable suicidal depression 24 hours after the shot. Finally quit cold turkey after complaining to my neuro for 2 years and him not listening. Why is it that doctors don...

The raging depression always comes a few days after the injection. I can't stop crying. I feel like I am burning up with fever, but my temp is normal. My skin hurts. My eyes feel like they are going to pop out of my head. I hate myself. I think about ways I can end it all and it scares me even more....

LR1234, I had not heard of spirulina. I will try it. I am very healthy and completely mobile. I follow the Swank MS diet, which is really healthy. I twitch allot, and sometimes if I get too hot I loose my vision for a while, but that is it. I know I am lucky on the MS spectrum, I don't want to compl...

I have been on Avonex for 8 years. I started with the powdered form, and had bad side effects. Then they switched us all to the pre-filled form and the side effects were horrible. Chills and shaking that rocked the pictures off the wall, headache, muscle cramps and worst of all - depression. I was a...

I use 27G 1 1/4 needles. You have to get a prescription from your neuro. They decide based on how small you are. I had read somewhere that if you were under 110 pounds you were approved, but the limit might be higher.