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  • ros-mahoney

    Member
    September 3, 2019 at 5:33 pm

    I was diagnosed 2005 and I’ve been on autoimmune therapy since 2011..  I’m finding it harder, even now with RRMS,  to access treatments and I get rejected for many  because of the damage caused to kidneys.  This doesn’t provide much comfort for my future and reading this provides even less to be honest …

  • john-connor

    Administrator
    September 4, 2019 at 1:57 pm

    Hi Ros [& indeed ED] The news from the UK is that the modifying therapy Ocrevus has only just be allowed for use with Progressive MS patients. This was finally agreed in May of this year and supposedly should be available to such patients from now – September 2019.

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