I do find myself getting acne sometimes and my hair is thinning....but....I've always gotten a little acne here and there around 'that time' each month and the hair thinning, I see my GP this week and will discuss that, could be just a reaction to all those babies I had consecutively, lol

If you read the fine print about Copaxone, there is mention to thyroid....always something to get checked out with your GP.

Best of luck....

Ah ha! I never noticed this in the fine print about C. My neuro (as I have said before) does monthly blood work on me, while on C, and thyroid is one he checks in this.

Every time I go into the clinic to give blood, they ask "Are you on thyroid medication or something?". I have to explain that no, I'm not on thyroid medication. I am on daily injections of Copaxone for MS. "Ahhhh".

It does something to your thyroid???

How come my neuro never told me this. (at the time I started Copaxone, I couldnt see well enough to read the fine print)

Maybe I'll make an appointment to see my regular doctor (who is total eye candy... ) I wanted to see if I could talk him into a Rx for LDN since the neuro wouldnt give me one.

Yeah...for 'giggles' one day, I was flipping through that yearly planner. In the back of it was all the fine print. Patient Information(probably the stuff even our dr's don't read, ) pg 229...1/1000 "Endocrine:goiter, hyperthyroidism, and hypothyroidism" This is in the 2% of those reporting symptoms during the clinical trials....Apparently, it's OUR responsibility to read this section of the paraphenalia---according to the first page of Patient Information. The dr's are responsible for talking about IPIR's.

Now my stepmom was looking at my info one night. She noticed it{Copaxone} contains mannitol. That's supposed to slow the release of the meds through the kidneys??

My dad is a Nurse Anesthetist. When he saw that C contains mannitol, he had to tell me about all the uses for mannitol...something about it opening the blood brain barrier, and it also is used to lower intercranial pressures.

If they wanted me to read all that information, they could have done a better job of using larger print, maybe add a little white space to it (hit enter a few times so there's a break in the paragraphs more often)

I guess I'll be making an appointment to get my thyroid checked. Anyone else know of any other things I should have tested while I'm at it???

I wish they'd use larger print myself. They must be unaware of us MSers having trouble with fine print sometimes, no?

Other than thyroid, I'sure what else to get tested for as far as hair loss?

An ingredient in Copaxone opens the blood/brain barrier, Erin? Wow..Isn't that kind of the opposite of what we want?
Anyhoo..I have very long,thick hair, and was dx'd hypothyroid shortly before my MS dx. Earlier this year, I started pulling handfulls of hair off my head, almost on demand. I though this was odd, but then I remembered it was a symptom of hypothyroid. Since the fatigue from that and MS are so much the same, it took me awhile to even think of it, but that's what it was alright..Upped my med to 150 micrograms..

As far as C, I haven't been on it for about a year, but I remember saying that I was all for turning back the clock, but not so far back as teenage acne & oily skin..