good post
- From: "BigArtie" <XXX@.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:49:27 -0400
We haven't had a cure since Polio. Like Chris Rock says, "There ain't no
money in a cure. The money is in the Medicine! They don't want to cure you,
they just want to help you live with it." I was diagnosed with RRMS in Feb
'08 through MRI and LP. My Neuro immediately put me on Copaxone, which costs
$1500/mo. After one year, I felt worse. Discovered LDN (Low Dose
Naltrexone), a generic "off-label" drug that costs about $24/mo, without
insurance and it works better at halting my MS better than Copaxone
injections ever did, but I sure didn't hear about it from my Doctor because
its generic and no one will fund trials because there is no money in it.
But, in all honesty, I think my MS was a mis-Dx and I really have Lyme
disease. So many people diagnoses with MS have been mis-Dx who turned out to
have Lyme. If you were Dx with MS, please have yourself checked for Lyme. Be
your own advocate. Listen to your Dr., but be your own advocate. Turn off
the TV and do your research. I have a tendency to trust large amounts of
anecdotal evidence that point to something positive much more than a Big
Pharma company that wants to "just help me live with it."
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