Brad Thomas

My doctors in NC won’t prescribe it.

very exciting! how long does it usually take for things that are successful for mice to make their way to human trials, and then how long does it take after that before people like us can get it?

I definitely notice this while playing video games with my son. I don’t doubt it one bit.

I have been since February. It drives me nuts that people around this area don’t take the virus seriously and won’t wear masks. We have missed celebrating so many monumental occasions in the past year: My son’s 18th Birthday; My 20th wedding anniversary; My son’s high school graduation; My daughter’s 16th Birthday. It has been rough.

As i am fairly new to this world, my first bout of TN landed me in the ER and led to my MS diagnosis. Does having one always lead to another attack? Mine was a year and a half ago.

FWIW, I had a similar conversation and concern with my doctor. The way he stated it to me was this:

1) we don’t know how Coronavirus will affect you. You may be asymptomatic, or may have lesser symptoms. We just don’t know.

2) we don’t know how the drug will affect you infected with the virus.

3) we DO know you have MS, so not treating it means…[Read more]

That would be one silver lining in all of this.

I was on Tecfidera for roughly 6 months last year. It was my first DMT. While I didn’t have any side effects, and I felt fairly normal, I had several new lesions and a flare up earlier this spring.

My Neurologist advised to switch to Ocrevus, even with this Pandemic in full-swing, and I just finished the second-half of the first dose two weeks…[Read more]