Can excess iron lead to MS? Article here:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/researchers-labour-of-love-leads-to-breakthrough-in-treating-ms/article1372414/ And, of course, there's big money in the pill game, not cures. Which explains why the National MS Society is extra negative about this procedure. Gotta keep that money coming in...
Honestly, if such a simple procedure can clean up most of my sympotoms (far too cynical to say the c-word), why the fuck is just ONE of my meds $10,000 for a three month supply? I've already sworn that if I have to be taken off of Copaxone, I will not get on another. The remaining drugs are either far too dangerous or too ineffective. And they don't even know how these drugs really work! Did you know I can get kidney stones from Copaxone? I'm fucking praying I don't. I'm really fucking tired of the 'working to pay for meds that I need to work a FT job'. Just don't know how to break the cycle. I'm also tired of taking up to 8 prescriptions a day, not even counting vitamins and supplements. But if I work, I gotta take 'em...
If anyone is curious about MS, and wants more info than my crazy, incoherant screaming, you can get it here:
www.nmss.org