I got a call from my neuro yesterday.

I tested positive for the JC Virus.

Also, my neuro monitors CD4 T-cell level on all his Tysabri patients. My baseline was high....over 2000 (range 490-1700).

Anyone else have their CD4 cells monitored??

Here is a report by Elsevier about Neuroinflammation in MS: "Autoantibodies and autoreactive T cells against these myelin antigens have been detected in MS patients."

It said there was a type of CD4 T-helper cell that react against myelin.

What I read, is that there are some studies being done to correlate these CD4 cells to MS and other auto-immune disorders.

Source: http://www.direct-ms.org/pdf/Immunol...%2003%2006.pdf