Beautifully stated Kitty!

What you are saying, confirms what I have been thinking about instead of the dmd.

What I was thinking was throwing out the DMD, getting on a good diet full of antioxidants and anti-inflammatory foods. Filling up with the right vitamins/nutrients. Maybe eating right would slow some progression of the disease.

The way I see it.. is.. MS literally has a mind of it's own. If this disease really wants to attack me (which it apparently likes to do so every 2 months or so), it's going to do so regardless of DMD's.

So why constantly keep putting a drug in my body that the disease is not afraid of. Maybe natural products like healthy food and herbal remedies will make my MS comfortable with being lazy and NOT attacking me all the time.

So with knowing that you have done well with a proper diet and no DMD, I will stick to Rebif until I have my next appointment with my neuro, but I will discuss with him (again) how I am not okay with drugs that don't work and I want to try my OWN way of medicating withOUT harmful drugs.

And you are so right, WE are the bodies, it's OUR health, we should be able to approach our disease the way WE want to and a way that makes US comfortable. After all, we are the ones that live inside our bodies EVERYDAY, unlike them....