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Hi Art
this is terrific. I wish I'd seen this years ago when dx'ed !!
Found myself reading it and thinking of all the botched jobs I made of communicating about my MS over time. Older and wiser and all that
Thanks
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Hi I'm am not religious but I value the people out there that do pray for me. My parents are religious and they attend an inter-faith prayer group who pray for people locally, they just use a first name and a short history. Each member of the group prays for 2 people, and they have a daily and weekl...

Hi OneCleverWoman I was dx at 26 with bad relapse, paralysis and deafness, but I had had a whole load of relapses prior to that for about 7 years but they were passed off as depression/viruses/inner ear problems/whatever. I am now 34, work fulltime, am married and have a good life. I got over that b...

Hi it is hard :lol: Actually I am a coeliac so gluteny stuff was out anyway. I find dairy and eggs hard to cut out but the funny thing was I was told I was allergic to them as a child, but gradually my parents reintroduced them into my diet when I was younger as I seemed to be less allergic. I think...

Hi Dahlia it took me a long time to decide to go on a CRAB, as I was thinking along the same lines as yourself, why go on something that sounded so severe and may not work. The thing is though, you are far more likely to stay the way you are now, and not get additional symptoms and damage if you sta...

Hi is anyone out there living on the Best Bet diet? - no milk, no dairy, no gluten, no legumes, very low saturated fat? I am on a modified form of it - I got ELISA food intolerance test done and I showed up as being intolerant of gluten, milk, eggs and slightly intolerant of soy and lentils. I eat s...

It's interesting I never thought why me, more like "why not me". My big question is generally WHY - for all of us, so that we can find a cure. I am still struck by the mutual exclusivity of gout and MS, and bilharzia and MS. There has to be a potential treatment at the very least in one of...

Hi I know you're supposed to give up Copaxone before trying for a baby. I have read all the literature I can and there is no data that I found that links Copaxone to birth defects. It sounds a bit clinical but I have to weigh up risks here. I have very active MS, but it has been very quiet on Copaxo...

Hi Lyon that's fascinating! I have seen other research that said that gout is also mutually exclusive - gout caused by excess uric acid. Have seen another set of messages that link to the uric acid effect. Many of our current meds for MS can raise uric acid slightly..... Wonder if this kind of resea...