OK Nancy. Time for the down and dirty about my Avonex! When I first started taking it, I had some mild flu like reactions, felt achy. I take two Aleve the evening I take my shot. I continue to have some really wierd dreams. Both my neuro and MS specialist I saw in consult say that this can be from the Avonex. They say it's all part of the 'flu like reactions'. I don't know, I never had really bad dreams when I had the flu. These aren't bad dreams, just totally wierd, close to sience fiction.

Sometimes I have some swelling and inflammatrion around the injection site. It might come up three or four days after the injection and last a week or it might never occur at all. I have only had one bad injection reaction. Last December I somehiow hit a 'nerve root of a nerve root of a nerve root and how many more 'of a nerve roots' can I go back. Anyway my neruo said it was some obscure nerve root. Bottom line is that I had severe pain in that leg for about 6 weeks which caused me to walk wierd and put most of my wieght on my other leg which gave it problems. After two courses of Cortisone dose packs, and some Lortab later, it is all past hx now. But it did make everyone else pick up my duties at Christmas!!!!

So that was the down and dirty about my Avonosx hx. But my one lesion is still the same. Worth it? Yes!!!!!!!