John Connor

John King was so infuriated with the coverage of Colin Powell’s death, especially by Fox News, that he could remain silent no longer. He didn’t die from COVID-19 despite having 2 vaccinations but because he was immunosuppressed.

I was amazed he had MS because I watched him on election night standing for hours explaining the minutiae of each…[Read more]

Cambridge researchers recently discovered changing a single gene can boost myelin repair in older mice.

Unfortunately they don’t think this can work in humans. However they’re hoping that drugs might.

Still, the holy MS grail of cracking myelin repair continues.

Do u think it will ever be opened?

Oh yes! If only this had been known in 2009 when at 49 I was finally diagnosed with MS. Though had first sclerosis attack 2 years earlier!

In the UK they prescribed lightweight DMT’s at first Rebif (beta interferon-1a) was mine. Think this still hasn’t changed!!!!

It was the case that the drugs always chased the progression – rather than the…[Read more]

My point is that for the first three hours of my morning – my life and that of my wife’s is always the same!

Let me repeat that. ‘My point is……’ Too much?

So this is the latest starting point for my column this week.

Any of you feel the same?

As it’s my birthday today my question is how many of u can I get to wish me a good’un!

Hey, as it’s the net, u can also go the other way. x

This article gives an expert opinion on fatigue & MS – well worth the effort of reading. It’s by Meghan Beyer, PhD, a rehabilitation neuropsychologist who teaches skills and techniques to improve patients’ quality of life. Beier is a psychologist specializing in MS at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

She breaks down the c…[Read more]

I really don’t want it to happen but many weeks I don’t have to think of a theme for my col – MS just chucks its ‘snowballs’ at me.

This one’s about heavy fatigue causing a day in bed.

I realise some of you have no choice! MS stops the body working – it happened a few years ago to a colleague of mine.

For those of us fortunate enough to keep…[Read more]

I really don’t want it to happen but many weeks I don’t have to think of a theme for my col – MS just chucks its ‘snowballs’ at me.

This one’s about heavy fatigue causing a day in bed.

I realise some of you have no choice! MS stops the body working – it happened a few years ago to a colleague of mine.

For those of us fortunate enough to keep…[Read more]

I really don’t want it to happen but many weeks I don’t have to think of a theme for my col – MS just chucks its ‘snowballs’ at me.

This one’s about heavy fatigue causing a day in bed.

I realise some of you have no choice! MS stops the body working – it happened a few years ago to a colleague of mine.

For those of us fortunate enough to keep…[Read more]