When one talks about a "cure" for a particular disease, I would think that the criteria for this to happen would be that !) the experts know what the disease is and 2) they know the cause.
Add to this equation, treatments and/or medications that have shown extremely promising results with only fine tuning to be done to achieve the "cure."
So I now apply these conditions to MS and ask you to come to your own conclusions as to where a "cure" may be at this time?
Harry
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Hi Bob,
I hear what you are saying about equating a "cure" to a "satisfactory resolution" but how can you "fix" a disease when you don't even know what is causing the problem? With MS, I look at a "cure" as something that will prevent the destruction of the myelin and stop whatever that mechanism may be. Damage already created is another matter.
For decades, the total focus for a "cure" has been to try and understand how and why the immune system reacts the way it does in MS patients. I'm afraid that plan of action has resulted in where we are today....pretty much nowhere. The current medications, including Tysabri (especially the info on the other thread explaining its efficacy along with the CRABs) seem to "jumble" the immune system in MS patients and perhaps slow things up a little. But they aren't even remotely close to what you call a "satisfactory resolution."
I'm afraid we are still a fair piece away from being close to anything resembling a "cure." We can only hope that something gets discovered soon to change all of this.
Harry
I hear what you are saying about equating a "cure" to a "satisfactory resolution" but how can you "fix" a disease when you don't even know what is causing the problem? With MS, I look at a "cure" as something that will prevent the destruction of the myelin and stop whatever that mechanism may be. Damage already created is another matter.
For decades, the total focus for a "cure" has been to try and understand how and why the immune system reacts the way it does in MS patients. I'm afraid that plan of action has resulted in where we are today....pretty much nowhere. The current medications, including Tysabri (especially the info on the other thread explaining its efficacy along with the CRABs) seem to "jumble" the immune system in MS patients and perhaps slow things up a little. But they aren't even remotely close to what you call a "satisfactory resolution."
I'm afraid we are still a fair piece away from being close to anything resembling a "cure." We can only hope that something gets discovered soon to change all of this.
Harry
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Hi Robbie,robbie wrote:What about Revimmune Harry?We can only hope that something gets discovered soon to change all of this.
I look at it as just another powerful immune system altering drug that will shake up the patient's immune system and pretty much have the same results as the current drugs. I have also read that there are some tricky side effects to Revimmune.
Ever notice that over the years, MS patients end up getting tested with several of these immune system altering cancer or transplant immune altering drugs in the hope that it will work. Again I point to the other thread here where the CRABs and Tysabri were theoretically compared to one another by independent researchers with pretty dismal conclusions.
Harry