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Old 03-09-2008, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by doydie View Post
I have been on Avonex since about June 1997. I had only one lesion back then and I still have only one lseion. I am not going to claim that the Avonex made the difference but I don't want to switch! When I started I had mild flu symptoms for about a month. Not the whole month but for a day after my shot. So I would take the shot on Friday nights. Now I don't have any flu symptoms. I have had a history of some really weird dreams the night of my shot and the Aleve that I take doens't seem to effect it. My family just knows that it was another Avonex night for me! We have come to laugh about a lot of what happens to your body with MS. My husband says I need to write a book about what I hear him say vs what he did say. I was an RN so needed no help in giving my shots but I did make sure someone else knew just in case I did come to a point in my MS hthat I couldn't give it. My husband was a medic in thr Navy.
thank you for this--i was tempted to start off w/rebif but my husband and i ultimately decided on avonex--i want to start on friday's also...a book is an excellent idea! i am now starting "the first year--multiple sclerosis" and it is kinda bumming me out" so maybe we can all collaborate and do a funny one

i too just have one lesion (that's what i heard neuro say--husband claims he heard something else) but i am sticking w/ONE! hopefully i will have the same good results you have experienced.
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1st symptoms--01-27-08 (blurred vision)
dx 02-12-08
confirmed with neurologist 02-15-08 spinal tap 03.03.08
started avonex 03-14-08
july 2011-ish....lesions on the spine (at least two!)
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started rebif 12-01-11

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
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