{"id":135,"date":"2008-08-11T16:39:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T20:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/?p=135"},"modified":"2008-08-11T16:39:17","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T20:39:17","slug":"ms-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"MS Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t wrote in here in quite some time, so I&#8217;d like to share some things MS related I&#8217;ve recently read.&nbsp; First, 2 more patients developed PML (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/brain\/progressive-multifocal-leukoencephalopathy\">progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy<\/a>) from treatment via Tysabri.&nbsp; Since the FDA already &#8220;black-labeled&#8221; this drug for risks of this exact thing, and neither patient has yet died, and the risk-reward of the drug still outweighs the bad.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I also have read about some promising treatments, such as caffeine and a new pill drug for relapsing-remitting ms called Laquinimod.&nbsp; Laquinimod is now in phase III trial, which means it could be less than 2 years away from release to public.&nbsp; I HATE SHOTS, and would love for this drug to take off.&nbsp; I take a daily pill already for my hiatal hernia, so another pill is not a big deal to me.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Caffeine you say?&nbsp; According to an article I read, and tested on mice, the caffeine blocked a compound called adenosine that triggers the events that lead to the mouse form of MS.&nbsp; Does drinking more coffee help?&nbsp; Ehh, maybe not, but the equivalent to 6 cups a day blocked this compound and in some cases reversed the effects.&nbsp; Shit, I drink about 12 so if it does help, I&#8217;m all set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t wrote in here in quite some time, so I&#8217;d like to share some things MS related I&#8217;ve recently read.&nbsp; First, 2 more patients developed PML (progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy) from treatment via Tysabri.&nbsp; Since the FDA already &#8220;black-labeled&#8221; this drug for risks of this exact thing, and neither patient has yet died, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-ms-and-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}