Re: Introduction to mscured

January 3, 2001

Hello everyone, my name is , I'm 27 years and I've had MS for going

on 11yrs. this May. I've been reviewing some of the messages and even

writing back to a few people and I felt it was about time that I introduced

myself to everyone. I have relapsing-remitting MS and during the course of

the 11yrs. I've been on steroids on and off during that time. I don't like

taking the steroid medication because I know of the bad side effects but for

now it's the only thing that seems to relieve my flare ups.

Right now I'm on Avonex, but in the past I have taken Betaseron and Copazone.

With the Betaseron I felt that for some reason it wasn't working for me, so

I decided to take myself off of the medicaton. My instincts were right

because my doctor told me during my next visit to him, that it was good thing

that I took myself off from Betaseron because he was going to take my off it

anyway. The medication was producing antibodies in my blood system. Copazone

wasn't that bad but my doctor decided to place me on Avonex.

For now my mission is to find other means of relieving my pains without using

steroids. I found that eating a good diet, taking herbal supplements, not

taking on too much stress and going to the acupuncturist helpls me a great

deal. But for now I would like to say that this is the best group I've ever

been in and I hope to talk to as many of you online as possible ( or to just

simply answer each others email.) I would like to wish everyone the best of

health for this new year and to have a positive attitude with MS because if

you let down your guard, the MS could take over your whole life. (Believe me

I've been through it.) I hope to talk to as many of you real soon. Keep up

the good work everyone.

Motto: I have MS, but MS doesn't have me.

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