IVIG and MS

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Yes my neuro has prescribed this as my standard care and I receive it every

3 weeks. In the past when I was hospitalized for severe relapses, IVIG was

used over 5-7 days like someone else might be given novantrone or solumedrol

but I don't tolerate either. Separately many rheumatologists have been

using IVIG for various conditions so they both worked together to follow my

care and it is working well for both. IVIG may not work for everyone. When

first diagnosed, I was relapsing constantly and going downhill constantly

and I'd get IVIG say for 5 days in the hospital and get better but start

relapsing again just 35 days later. So over time, doctors would prescribe it

regularly say once per month but I would still relapse and so they'd take me

off it but I didn't respond to anything else.....More recently, a newer

neuro for me prescribed the IVIG every 3 weeks and I have stopped relapsing

and haven't been in ER or hospitalized.

Here are some links about it:

http://www.americanoutcomes.com/multiple-sclerosis-treatments.php

www.cidpusa.org/P/ivig.htm

www.revolutionhealth.com/articles?id=tf2742

ms.about.com/.../Intravenous-Immunoglobulin-Ivig-For-Multiple-Sclerosis.htm

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov > ... > v.57(Suppl); Nov 1994

neurology.ucsf.edu/msc/treatments.htm

To find these links, I used these search words IVIG for mmultiple sclerosis