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hi millie, welcome. i also have had ms for over 30 years. i have never been on medication. i want to tell you that a friend who had been using avonex, satisfactorily, for many years, was urged to change to rebif by a new doctor. she resisted but she switched. she ended up losing her law practice and...

dania,
it is always good to have information, but, sister, this news is rough! i'm sorry it is this way for you. i hope that a way to help you can be figured out.
wishing you a solution.
elyse

and it tastes great on baked potatoes!

Vesta, i'd like to add my thanks to you for this conversation. i have considered the procedure since i learned of it in 2009. i am glad i did not take dr. zamboni's advice to do it "sooner rather than later", in the case of aging and worsening illness. i have put the whole subject on the back burner...

HappyPoet-
nice alliteration.
elyse

hi blossom,
maybe these sites are of interest:
http://www.safeaccessnow.org
http://www.safeaccessnow.net
http://www.veteransformedicalmarijuana.org
sorry i forgot to include them. of course, it is still illegal.
elyse

hi blossom,
maybe these sites are of interest. of course, it is still illegal.
elyse

blossom,
i sure do get your point.
i was unable to use the link.
elyse

acupuncture solved my difficulty of feeling as though my legs were bags of cement.
i have not had treatment in several years, but am still doing better than i was when i first sought that help.

i have a problem with the term, "autoimmune theory"
until it has been proven, i believe it is simply a hypothesis.
elyse

ATTITUDE The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failure, than success, than what other people think or say or do. It is more importan...

i was told by a neurologist that ms stops being active at around 60. his explanation was, "there may be pwms in their sixties, but i don't see them in my practice. at that age, you'll be dealing with aging issues. when i saw my next neurologist, i asked him if this is so. he agreed that it is. well,...

ray, thank you for sharing your sister's story. i'm sorry for the difficult situation. i very much disagree with BelBee. where else would you find folks who can understand. i think it is a conceit to believe that one who watches someone else suffering is not suffering also. we each find a way to dea...

i took ginkgo for more than year, and did not notice benefits. elyse

gymbuff, i think that if you're breathing, there is still time to improve your situation. (i will turn 62 in december). there are no guarantees about preventing decline, there is simply the reality that ms is a progressing situation. it seems to me that the best thing any of us can do is be as healt...