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I am in the same position with my MS and treatment course, although I took rebif for a year. My MRI is always bad with new lesions. I work every day, and I don't feel like the meds work all that well for the risks. I have met with four different neurologists, trying to gauge if I am crazy for not ta...

I'd be weary of a compounder in this situation. The BG12 is encoated to be absorbed after it passes the stomach. Does your compounder do microencapsulation or anything like that? DMF digested by stomach acid is different than DMF absorbed through the intestine. If the compounder is throwing a powder...

Marc, you sir have a wealth of information. Thanks for sharing. I have studied bee stings, tape worms, aromatherapy, vitamins, diet, ccsvi, mmp inhibitors, interferons, cordycept mushroom zombie ants, coeliac disease, diabetes, sodium channels, potassium channels, chlamydia, measles, aids, cancer, h...

The immune system depends on the thymus during maturation, up into a person's early twenties. Before then, we inherent our mother's immune system and the body uses the thymus to learn to program a new immune system. Many B-cells are defective. When the bad Bcell fails the thymus checkpoint, it is pr...

These viruses fit the disease profile well. They attack B cells responsible for the immune system and how the body distinguishes between self and nonself. An infected B cell can repress the body's instructions for the cell to self destruction if it has been miscoded. Basically, if the cell had becom...

That it a neat article. Lesions suck. From what I know, the following is kind of a telltale pattern for MS, common but not exhaustive for MS. From jimmylegs' link. http://www.ajronline.org/na101/home/literatum/publisher/arrs/journals/content/ajr/2002/ajr.2002.179.issue-1/ajr.179.1.1790251/production...

I don't believe it's invented by big pharma but I align with your sentiment about drug pricing ethics or lack thereof.

OPINION: ask your nuerologist. They should know the anatomy well enough to tell you if that's a piece of fat or a normal vein or a normal variation of a vein or possibly something else. They get the big money to tell you. Best of luck.

I second the kudos to ladymac. Way to be mature and straight forward!

Anyone can read the paperwork that comes with their drugs and look online at some of the published whitepapers. BG-12 is extremely promising for neuroprotection and immune suppression. I quite am considering taking it myself. JC virus is slightly associated with dimethyl fumarate (DMF), but not at t...

Fibrinogen Level Tied to Poorer PCI Outcomes http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/PCI/36734 Thought that Clopidogrel (plavix) is still used by some docs . . in CCSVI venoplasty - but only after the procedure? Perhaps some prescribe for pre-procedure use? Pradaxa would have a similar effect re: fi...

I imagine that all sorts of things can cause leakage oc the BBB. Alergies, blood flow, viruses, drugs, vitamin deficiencies, fatty food, posture, trama, and things maybe other things. Any theory of MS could be strengthened from this article. The great thing about it is that there's a downstream link...

Mom has MS. Grandma had Parkinson's. I got MS.

My headaches seem highly correlated to the amount of water I drink on injection days. Drink more water; Get less headaches.

Unless one feels that acupuncture relieved a side effect of rebif, it should probably be discussed elsewhere.