Could Toxic Gut Bacteria Be the Answer to New MS Therapies?
Image by Nicoletta Barolini – check out her images on: https://www.nicolettabarolini.com/ Advanced Science Research Center (City University of NY) made an amazing discovery that may…
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Wyoming Jeepers
Melissa Cook, September 2020 – Shoshone National Park, Wyoming
Volunteering Despite Disabilities
Years ago I unconsciously believed being disabled meant that I was sick and couldn’t participate in regular activities of life. I was wrong. I’m so…
First Drug for PPMS Possible
Is there hope for a primary progressive multiple sclerosis treatment? Researchers are pretty excited about Ocrelizumab for PPMS. This drug has sent researchers over the…
Vitamin D Hoopla
Vitamin D deficiencies in multiple sclerosis patients seems to be the headline everywhere one reads. If you are like me and have multiple sclerosis, you…
Sometimes It’s Not MS
How many times does multiple sclerosis receive the blame for something it didn’t do? I bet, a lot. In fact, my doctor recently wrote in…
Tecfidera, Stomach Pain & Headaches
Recently I went in for an MRI worried that I may have PML due to a prolonged, months-long headache. In the past month the headaches…
Tecfidera & Lymphopenia
Beginning Tecfidera two years ago I was prepared for the stomach upset and flushing. Apple sauce and aspirin in hand each morning and night I…
Anxiety & PTSD
“I’m losing my mind,” she told the doctor after months of out-of-control thoughts. A trigger caused an unending flashback to a traumatic event decades since…
Creating a World of My Own
Carnival of Bloggers posted the following article as their Blogger Post #161 in November 2014, “Creating a World of My Own” by Melissa Cook. Papers…