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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Kansas
Posts: 971
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Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Kansas
Posts: 971
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Dave --
Nice to meet you. Welcome. I am Faith. I have lived in KS for 23 of my 45 years; grew up in Canada.
I have had MS for 6 yrs. Took almost 2 years to dx me; went on Betaseron within 2 weeks of being dx.
You are the first person I've "met" who is on a double dose. Nice to have someone with that in common. I stayed on a single dose for about yrs. Betaseron seemed to be doing a really good job of keeping new lesions away, but I was still having flares about once a year, and my flares were generally sever enough to land me in the hospital for about 2 weeks. So, my neuro bumped me up to a dose and a half for 6 months, and then to a double dose.
My most recent flare, although no less frequent was much less severe. I had extreme fatigue for about 2 weeks, but not the unusual manic symptoms that I usually have with a flare that involve hospitalization.
Sorry to hi-jack this thread.
~ Faith
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aka MamaBug
Symptoms since 01/2002; Dx with MS: 10/2003; Back in limbo, then re-dx w/ MS: 07/2008
Betaseron 11/2003-08/2008; Copaxone 09/2008-present
Began receiving SSDI 11/2008
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