MS treatments 'may lower white cell levels'

[MSUK]

Multiple sclerosis patients are at risk of developing lymphopenia, or abnormally low levels of immune defense white blood cells, called lymphocytes, according to a new study...Read more - http://www.ms-uk.org/ms-treatments-may- ... els-020916

[David1949]

Hmmm! Don't these drugs work by partially shutting down the immune system to reduce inflamation? So now it's a surprise that they reduce white cells? Isn't that what they're supposed to do?

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People with MS match the normal population's white cell count. People who have been treated with DMDs have a declining white cell count. Many think of MS as a disease of the white cells (the immune system). The action of many DMDs is to kill or disable T cells. If we could stop treating MS as a disease of the immune system we might stop killing, disabling, and reducing the population of white cells. This includes T and B cells. We still don't know what causes MS. When will somebody do a large, long-term study of diet as a cause of MS? Never? Many billions have been spent on MS drugs. Will we ever stop barking up the wrong tree? Not as long as "DMDs" are still a multi-billion dollar market. Doctors will continue to say the emperor has nice new clothes, and pwMS will continue to die of MS.

My friend died at 30 of MS, partly because of desperate invasive experiments that were done on him, and I believe in large part because he was confined. Confined to a bed, kept lying down, not even in a wheelchair. He was confined to the diet he could get from a chronic-care facility in the early nineteen-seventies.

Recently an Ottawa hospital's managers were confined to their own kitchen's food: http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-new ... are-coming. They didn't like it, but if patients won't eat it, they just starve. Some actually starve on purpose.

If you are lying down your jugulars are used more than usual. If you have jugular obstructions, you do better sitting up. MS patients are considered to be "sick" and/or "disabled", so a lot of them are kept lying down.

I think when we take away driver's licenses, confine people, confine their diets, and sometimes when we give them dangerous immune-suppressing medications, we are killing them with our kindness.

I think MS needs a complete re-think by unbiased professionals.