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- Tue Jun 22, 2010 5:47 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What would you do?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1822
Courts, I've been on rebif for over 6 years now. I don't experience any side effects except for some mild injection site reactions (slightly red and sore for a day or so after some injections). Some people get really bad flu-like symptoms and generally feel like crap on the stuff, but others don't h...
- Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:38 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What would you do?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1822
Courts, sorry to hear about your problems. If I was in your situation, I'd try the interferon. I'm a bit biased as I'm on rebif and have been doing well (though I can't say whether or not the rebif has anything to do with it, maybe I'm just lucky). There definitely seem to be responders and non-resp...
- Sun Jun 20, 2010 7:28 am
- Forum: Stem Cells
- Topic: Astrocyte Progenitor Research for ALS
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1695
- Tue Jun 15, 2010 9:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: proteins in CSF
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1589
proteins in CSF
This news is big, Gabby Hayes big. New, sought-after standard for diagnosis within neurology June 15, 2010 -- For the first time, researchers from Sweden and the US have succeeded in identifying the majority of the detectable proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of healthy human beings. The adv...
- Sun Jun 13, 2010 3:53 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: question for experienced ones
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4567
meet, welcome to TIMS. I think symptom resolution time can vary widely. From personal exerience, my sensory symptoms resolved quite quickly, over the course of a couple of months, without steroids. But then there were some residual effects that eventually went away over the course of the following y...
- Sun Jun 13, 2010 3:39 pm
- Forum: Drug Pipeline
- Topic: gilenia / fingolimod / FTY720
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15086
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 9:35 am
- Forum: Drug Pipeline
- Topic: gilenia / fingolimod / FTY720
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15086
- Sat Jun 12, 2010 9:05 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: ECTRIMS 2009
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5749
Another very interesting study on the role of astrocytes. Nothing is ever simple or easy with MS research, but this looks like a promising line of enquiry. Primary loss and dysfunction of astrocytes may trigger demyelination, as seen in neuromyelitis optica, an inflammatory disease of the central ne...
- Thu Jun 10, 2010 5:43 pm
- Forum: Drug Pipeline
- Topic: gilenia / fingolimod / FTY720
- Replies: 17
- Views: 15086
gilenia / fingolimod / FTY720
I know, I know, the news has already been posted in a couple of other threads, but I just wanted to highlight one thing that I think is a great idea (I think the FDA panel stole it from me, I'm sure they're all dedicated readers of the thisisms forums) ...panelists questioned whether an even lower d...
- Sun Jun 06, 2010 8:13 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: interesting video
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1813
- Sat Jun 05, 2010 12:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: interesting video
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1813
interesting video
Here's a link to part one of a talk Ray Kurzweil recently gave on the effects that information technology is having on progress in biological / health sciences. He's a smart cookie, so I hope his thesis is right. Parts 2-4 are also on Youtube, if anybody is interested. I believe that the kinds of ti...
- Wed Jun 02, 2010 5:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: hookworm trial and B cells
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1790
hookworm trial and B cells
Interesting article about the UK hookworm trial and B cells. Out of the shadows: our unknown immune system New Scientist -- DELIBERATE infection with a blood-sucking worm seems an odd way to treat multiple sclerosis (MS). Yet more surprising is what this experiment may tell us about a "shadow&q...
- Tue May 18, 2010 6:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Remyelination?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4036
Here are a couple of other things that could (maybe) help: vitamin B12 and DHEA. B12 http://www.thisisms.com/ftopicp-8834.html DHEA J Immunol. 2001 Dec 15;167(12):7094-101. Links Administration of dehydroepiandrosterone suppresses experimental allergic encephalomyelitis in SJL/J mice.Du C, Khalil MW...
- Mon May 17, 2010 9:02 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Remyelination?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4036
Nickmare, I'm really sorry to hear about your fiance's situation. There aren't any formally approved treatments for remyelination. A while ago the remyelination issue came up and I found a couple of possibilities. Also in the same thread (http://www.thisisms.com/ftopic-4093-days0-orderasc-remyelinat...
- Wed May 05, 2010 8:21 pm
- Forum: Stem Cells
- Topic: nerve pathways improve with stem cell treatment!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1881
Thanks scorpion, the results sound promising. It has been a long time coming. Bromley first mentioned this trial in late 2006. 3.5 years seems like a long time for an early stage trial, but I guess this is just how long it takes. Let's hope they get all the funding they need to proceed to a very lar...