Tag: copaxone

  • Moving on from Copaxone, Already!

    Moving on from Copaxone, Already!

    As mentioned in my previous post, I am already stopping Copaxone. At the time I wrote my last post, I was thinking the only reason I would stop would be if it showed disease progression. I didn’t even think that an allergic reaction was a possibility since I had been on it before. I had…

  • Treatment

    Treatment

    Disease Modifying Therapy There is no cure for Multiple Sclerosis, however, there are 15 different treatment options (often referred to as disease modifying therapies or DMT) that work to try to slow and stop disease progression.  Currently, since my disease was caught so early, I could easily forget that I have MS. However, my treatment…

  • Neurologist & Tests & Treatment

    Neurologist & Tests & Treatment

    The Two Week Wait Imagine walking out the door of a doctor’s office with one link to a website on a sticky note and being told you were diagnosed with a disease that you knew nothing about, except that the few people you know that have it aren’t doing so well. It is life changing.…