Sorry to hear your not not back up to par yet. Take your time the thread can wait your health can't.
Take care and hope to see back at it soon.
Madjack,my wife's got MS. Controlled with copaxne. I get to poke her with a needle every night. Not much joy in that.
Bernd
I'm sorry to hear that Bernd, I started on Beta Seron shots about sixteen years ago, changed to Avonex intra-muscular, once a week after about five years, and a steady accumulation of reactions, did that for about five years, and went on Copaxone, a real problem for someone who has no discernable boby fat, since it's a subcutaneous shot, meaning into the fat layer right under the skin, which I never had any of, and after about five years of that, couldn't stand the lumps of scar all over my belly, the only place I could do shots. I was just going to go off them and let it go, but my doctor convinced me to try the Tysabre infusion. It's done once a month via I.V., at the clinic, and it is riskier, however of all the therapies I've been on, it's the only one which did not, for all effects, give me a severe flu with each shot, and a severe skin reaction. In fact, the day of my infusion, every four weeks, is the best day I will have for a couple weeks, and the last week before my infusion, I'm ready for it and looking forward to the "boost" it always gives me. All you have to do is get over the fear of dying if the infusion happens to carry over a virus across the blood/brain barrier, which will kill you in a couple days. This is also true of all the other therapies, just a lot more likely with the infusion, as it's so direct.
My wife was diagnosed with "fibromyalgia" some ten years ago or so, by a doctor who didn't know what she was doing, and didn't follow up on testing. When we moved and she had to get a new doctor, she happened on a neurologist who insisted on taking MRIs to confirm diagnosis, and found she has M.S. as well. She was on Copaxone for about eight months, but just could not bear the shots, as she's as lacking in subcutaneous fat as I am, and she has no place to inject into that is not scarred by previous shots, or by previous abdominal surgery. She's afraid to try the infusion, the odds scare her, yet there is no other choice at this point, so she is doing without an active therapy for the present. She is still progressing more slowly than I am, so maybe she'll get to try the oral therapy when it arrives. I hope your wife is doing well with the Copaxone, in my experience, it was the least of the counter reactions by my immune system, with the exception of the infusion. Funny, I never really heard of M.S. except in passing, and in no detail until I got it, and now everyone I meet knows someone with it, or is related to someone on therapy for it. I hope you and your wife cope well with it, and it doesn't interfere with life too much. I wish I could say better. mad jack
