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I was always told that the steroids can take upto six weeks to have their effect, in my experience i normally start to see some improvement albeit slowly within a couple of weeks, and unfortunatley it can take months to recover from a relaspe, but hopefully the steroids should take away the worst of...

you know the best piece of advice I was ever given by my neurologist is to never assume a symptom is a result of MS... always get symptoms checked out, as otherwise you run the risk of ignoring a serious underlying problem, or suffering long term from something you neednt. So my advice for non typic...

I wonder whether this is the reason behind man flu??

(he he he sorry boys I couldnt help myself)

Copaxone is not supposed to make you feel unwell when you start treatment however when i started copaxone i had some strange side effects, and the MS nurses agreed they were strange but to hang on in there to see if they diminished. Thankfully 3-4 weeks later they slowly dissapeared and I continued ...

I also get an idea that I am about to relapse. Normally in the two weeks before i get a relapse i start to get tired, pins and needles, patches of excema (sp?) show up on my arms and legs, and i also get a very strange tummy ache. If i get the tiredness and excema then if i get lots of sleep and gen...

well winter is fast appproaching, and that means all i want to do is go to sleep in my lovely comfy bed... my hubby drags me out by my feet most morning to me wailing 'i dont wanna get up'- btw im not a teenager anymore either (he he) im sure this is a form of dark night depression ... perhaps one o...

Hi, I cant say the copaxone ever caused me sleep problems but it did make me feel very nauseous for about 3-4 weeks when i started taking it... so much so i adjusted to take the injections at night so i would sleep through the worst of it. However these symptoms got slightly less over the 4 weeks un...

female aged 29, was on copaxone for 3 years, lipo started at 6 months and got progressively worse, so much that I ruined my leg and bottom sites... so was reccomended only to inject into stomach area Stopped the copaxone a year ago (trying for a family) lipo improved slightly, but still large areas ...

I was on avonex and felt unwell as a result. I didnt get uptight or stressed, i just slipped away into a world where nothing bothered me. People talked to me and I just couldnt be bothered, it was just noise. I managed to work, but when I came home I had no energy for anything and would sit on the s...

I understand what you are going through - its tough making the right decisions. Me and my husband are trying for a family and we stopped copaxone for a month before we started trying. We got pregnant immediatley, but miscarried soon after. Since then we have continued trying and it has been a huge d...

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I can only answer with my personal experience with MS. Like yourself I do normally completely recover in between times but when I have had a particulaly bad relapse it can take a while. My last bad relapse left me with numb fingers for about 1 year after the major relapse had died down (this involve...

Honestly I cant fault copaxone. I have been on it 4 years now and havent had a relapse since I started on it, previously I was on avonex and was having 2 relapses per year, with lots of symptoms in between relapses, and the side effects from the avonex. With the copaxone I have much more energy, I h...

Everytime I have had a bad relapse I have had steroid treatment. It has worked for me everytime. Vision problems were gone within the week. I had a very bad relapse where my co-ordination of everything below my neck went so i couldnt walk - this time the steroids tok a bit longer to work (4 weeks -i...

Hi, I had the same thing happen to me whilst on avonex, however my depressive periods lasted for 5 days. It was a form of depression where I felt spaced out and far too tired to consider anything including speaking to my better half.. I was locked into a world of my own, and didnt know what was happ...