Re: Chemo-therapy for M.S. letter - SORRY!

I apologize for not snipping this letter. I meant to put in only the stuff
about how the chemo-therapy has done wonders for my M.S. these last 6
months - but it was almost ready to go and my daughter was having
contractions and we had to go to the hospital! So I pushed 'send' and
rushed off. Sorry, below is the part about the chemo.

(She's ready to have her first child, at age 37, my first grandchild --
she's back home on complete bed rest with toxemia, going hour by hour trying
to get to Monday when her OB/GYN comes back to town.)

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http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-Messianic

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: ~~~~~
:
: Your questions about the M.S. study.
:
: I saw him just this week and learned more about it. He and Vanderbilt
have
: been approved for many studies and was part of the ones that helped get
: Copaxine out. But for this drug, a known poison, which has been around
: forever, he couldn't get funding, since there isn't a profit motive -
there
: is no patent, and so it is cheap. So even though no official study with a
: research grant to be done in his lab, he is doing it informally with his
: patients and just keeping records.
:
: He said it has now dramatically helped a little over 70% of the sufferers.
: It is even better than Copaxine (that cost $1400 a month), since it can
not
: only put a person in remission, but make them actually better!
:
: It is just plain old chemo-therapy, but in tiny doses. Methotrexate.
:
: It gives our immune system something to fight, instead of our own bodies.
: He said when he learned that it relieved Rheumatoid Arthritis and the
other
: auto-immune problems, he had to try it on M.S. No one has given it for
the
: other 80 auto-immune problems yet like Lupus but now he thinks it will
help
: all of them!
:
: Now like the chicken and the egg, he is no longer sure whether the lesions
: start first, or whether the auto-immune part starts first, causing the
: lesions. We know that there is a genetic component. We know that there
is
: a geographic component (no one gets it who is raised in a warm climate).
: And we know that there is a trigger. Can be an illness or accident.
:
: For me, I've had it since I was 31, when my leg was 'gone' during a
meeting once, and the time my left arm went numb for a couple weeks when I
was in my mid-30s, etc. But, like so many others with M.S., it eventually
went into constant-active mode with no remissions beginning with the
accident in April, 2000.
:
: But the good news is that after 5 years of going downhill, downhill,
: downhill, finally asking God to take me Home, I am getting better and
better
: every month and week and day.
:
: I'm getting to the point that people can't tell me from normal! I can
walk,
: lift, and have physical strength. The tremors are almost gone. I am
rarely
: incontinent - used to be daily - now a couple times a month. And the best
: part is that my brain is working again! NO more cloudy thinking, and
being
: overwhelmed with fog.
:
: Anyway, it is Dr. Harold Moses, director of the M.S. Clinic of Vanderbilt
: hospital. He also has a huge lab (like with animal testing), that you
walk
: past to get to the office where he sees patients. He gave the script for
: 3 - 2.5mg tablets of Methotrexate to be taken in one dose, once a week, at
: night (7.5 mg a week).
:
: Then to overcome the nausea and some of the effects, he has me on folic
acid
: daily. Methotrexate is a strong poison, like cyanide. Taken by a
pregnant
: woman, it causes a miscarriage. Doctors used to use it for abortions
before
: they became legal. It is truly a death drug.
:
: Cancer patients who go on "chemo-therapy", go to a hospital and get hooked
: up with an IV. They sit in a recliner chair letting the IV drip in until
it
: is gone - usually at least an hour. In it goes a strong dose of
: Methotrexate, a very powerful poison, and Solumedral, a strong steroid,
: which is to help build back the body. I have now been on both.
:
: The theory is that since our body has more healthy cells than cancerous,
if
: 10% of all cells die, it will affect the cancer more than the healthy
ones.
: Although there are dangerous side effects and it is devastating to the
human
: physically and emotionally, eventually the cancer will be gone, if they
: don't kill the patient first! (For bad cases where the cancer is in one
: spot, they add radiation to burn out that one spot).
:
: I began the weekly low dose in December of last year, so I have completed
6
: months. The first month was full of body changes, some good, most bad.
My
: hair fell out in clumps - ask Scott, I showed him a basketful that came
out
: in one washing at the ranch the first of January. It was like that every
: time I washed my hair. And I got pneumonia and was sick through a lot of
: January. More powerful nausea than I can describe and felt like I was
: living with mega-flu.
:
: Then it happened! I started being better - and better and betterer!
:
: My hair came back at least as thick and now for some weird reason, it has
: body and curl!!! When I wash it and just let it air dry, it looks exactly
: like I've had a perm! I started noticing I was having fewer of what the
: kid's call my "personal earthquakes". That is when it looks like an
: invisible person just pushed me and I have to work to not fall. I used to
: have them several times a day and now just a few a month. The pain in my
: left leg that was constantly so bad for months that I wanted to die - went
: from a "10" to a "6" in short order and now it comes and goes at a "3-4".
:
: I guess I'm just better all over. I asked Dr. Moses this week how long I
: could hope to keep this health. He said that for the 70% of people who
get
: better, it can help consistently for years. He said that our bodies can
: only take a cumulative total dosage, and for cancer patients, they reach
it
: pretty quick. But at the low dosage I'm taking it, if we don't have to
: increase it ever, it could last 5 years! Hip Hip Hurrah!
:
: Hope this helps your doctor friend. :-)
:
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: http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-Messianic
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