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• A civil conversation about stem cell research

  Published: October 5, 2007, 3:31 pm

  Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Ms Treatment, Ms Therapy, Ms Community, Ms Research, Stem Cell Research

  have to be strictly about MS and stem cell research they can be on anything pertaining to stem cell research. It's a subject that may affect many of us in our lifetime. Stem cell research has been white hot at times here on this blog; it's a difficult topic everywhere. I'd like to present a balance of questions to my guests. If you were in

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• October recipe for success: Just the flax Ma'am

  Published: October 10, 2007, 5:16 pm

  Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Ms Treatment, Ms Therapy, Healthy Recipe, Ms Community, Ms Research

  to those of us who have MS. I say may because as we well know, research takes money and the flax farmers are not wealthy research philanthropists. There is evidence that the essential Omega fatty acids in flax can act to regulate the immune system and act as a natural anti-inflammatory agent. And, they taste much better than the fish oils

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• MS and Your Feelings: Book club blog chapter 8

  Published: October 12, 2007, 2:42 pm

  Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Ms Treatment, Ms Therapy, Ms Hug, Ms Vision, Ms Community, Ms Research, Book Club Blog, Ms Your Feelings, Allison Shadday, Grief

  writing the How's your MS blog that I realized that the calendar had moved to October. Couple that with some other technical issues and here we are, Friday of week two rather than Friday of week four. My apologies to all of our readers and to Allison Shadday, our author. This month's chapter deals with grief and grieving. We've had

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• The low down on MS misinformation

  Published: October 15, 2007, 6:09 pm

  Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Ms Treatment, Ms Therapy, Ms Balance, Healthy Recipe, Ms Community, Ms Research, Ms Blog

  I write our MS because many of these shameless marketers/spammers seem to think I'm some kind of a gatekeeper to the MS community. But you don't have to have a forum like this blog to find yourself in the path of the latest MS pitch. My favorite (lips dripping with sarcasms right now) are ads you'll see on respectable sites. A

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• I'm tired of MS and I'm just plain tired

  Published: October 17, 2007, 4:01 pm

  Tags: Tysabri, Multiple Sclerosis, Ms Treatment, Ms Therapy, Humira, Infusions, Ms Hug, Ms Vision, Ms Balance, National Ms Society, Ms Community, Accessibility, Brain Lesions, Ms Research, Stem Cell Research, Ms Your Feelings, Grief, Ms Blog

  and diametric opposition of MS. I'm tired of my friends slipping and sliding down a slope and it being called progression . I'm tired I'm tired of my brain working so hard to find new pathways to get information to my body that I lay awake half the night. I'm tired of taking drugs to help me sleep that do not work and leave me too groggy

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• Good day sunshine and hello vitamin D!

  Published: October 19, 2007, 12:55 pm

  Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Ms Treatment, Ms Therapy, Ms Hug, Ms Balance, National Ms Society, Ms Community, Ms Research, Ms Your Feelings, Ms Blog

  I've been hearing from MS specialists that the vitamin D that we produce in our bodies, synthesized from the sun, is better for us than the pills we ingest - and cheaper. Well, maybe not so cheap if you live in an area of the country, which sees months of gray blankets of clouds for months on end; especially this time of year. Ever since

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• Complaining about MS doesn't mean you lack gratitude

  Published: October 22, 2007, 1:28 pm

  Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Ms Treatment, Ms Therapy, Infusions, Ms Hug, Ms Balance, National Ms Society, Ms Community, Ms Research, Ms Your Feelings, Grief, Ms Blog

  blog again. Last week I put MS and all of it from which I tire on the page. Today, I'm going to take multiple sclerosis off the page and list just a couple of things which get me through a day. This morning I'm grateful for: The smell of fresh coffee in the morning and NPR Good morning licks from Sadie & Stella and kisses from

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• You may have asked yourself, what is a stem cell?

  Published: October 24, 2007, 2:50 pm

  Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Ms Treatment, Ms Therapy, Ms Balance, National Ms Society, Ms Community, Ms Research, Stem Cell Research, Ms Your Feelings, Ms Blog

  does it matter to me and my MS? Well, tomorrow night is an excellent opportunity to answer that question and chime in on very important research. Tomorrow night, the HealthTalk MS webcast is called, “Stem Cells and MS,” we are going to have a panel discussion with two very prominent researchers in the field of stem cell research.

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• Notes from the annual conference of the National MS Society

  Published: October 29, 2007, 2:31 pm

  Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Ms Treatment, Ms Therapy, Ms Balance, National Ms Society, Ms Community, Accessibility, Ms Research, Ms And Your Feelings, Ms Blog, Nmss, Nmss Conference

  anew, as I live my life with MS. And I do it with full knowledge that many minds brighter than mine, many pockets deeper than mine, many hearts bigger than mine are pulling for me, pulling for us. The next time you have an encounter with someone from the NMSS, make sure you thank them for everything they are doing for us. Life with MS would be so

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• MS and Your Feelings: Book club blog chapter 9

  Published: October 31, 2007, 2:20 pm

  Tags: Ms Treatment, Ms Therapy, Ms Balance, National Ms Society, Ms Community, Ms Research, Book Club Blog, Ms And Your Feelings, Allison Shadday, Ms Blog, Ms And Fatigue

  recently published book MS and Your Feelings: Handling the Ups and Downs of Multiple Sclerosis. This month, we're on to chapter 9. I devoured this book when the first of several copies made their way to me. I'll admit that I've been re-scanning the past couple of chapters as I write my monthly blog entry. This chapter, however, I

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• Optical coherence tomography: Replacement for MRI?

  Published: November 2, 2007, 2:47 pm

  Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Ms Treatment, Ms Therapy, Ms Vision, National Ms Society, Ms Research, Ms Blog, Nmss, Nmss Conference, Oct, Optical Coherence Tomography, Mri

  every person living with MS (almost) has some damage to the optic nerve, even though we may not realize it. Even if a patient has never complained of symptoms of optic neurosis, damage is being done to our ability to see; even at the cellular level. Using OCT to scan the back of the eyeball, doctors can see the thickness of the nerve

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• It's November; how is your MS today?

  Published: November 7, 2007, 3:03 pm

  Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Ms Treatment, Ms Therapy, Infusions, Ms Balance, Ms Community, Brain Lesions, Ms Research, Ms And Your Feelings, Ms Blog, Ms And Fatigue, Ms Stress, Novantrone

  with the advice of my MS team, to use up that last dose or so of Novantrone and I'm planning on that. My MS is manageable today, but we all know that it's not much more than one overnight, and all that can and perhaps will change. I guess I'm thinking of my MS today like we used to think about the coming months when I was a boy in

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• I need to ask a taboo question about MS

  Published: November 9, 2007, 3:37 pm

  Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Ms Treatment, Ms Therapy, Ms Vision, Ms Balance, Ms Community, Ms Research, Ms And Your Feelings, Ms Blog, Ms And Fatigue

  we last talked of a cure for MS. When we spoke of cures then it was to understand that cure means different things to different people. Today, I want to know if you think (not feel, not hope, not believe) there will be a cure for MS in the next 50 years? Now, I know that some of you will think that I'm just stirring an emotional pot for

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• Death of a clown

  Published: November 12, 2007, 5:01 pm

  Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Ms Treatment, Ms Therapy, Ms Hug, Ms Community, Ms Research, Ms And Your Feelings, Grief, Ms Blog, Ms Stress

  of something bigger than themselves. Many of you know the feeling manifested in the sense of community you find here at the Life with MS blog. Why aren't we giving more people the chance to feel that way about our movement? Yes, you may not have the funds to write a big check for research. Yes, your energy levels wax and wane so unpredictably

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• What would you want your MS healthcare team to know?

  Published: November 19, 2007, 12:04 pm

  Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Ms Treatment, Ms Therapy, Ms Balance, Ms Community, Ms Research, Ms And Your Feelings, Ms Blog, Ms And Fatigue, Ms Stress, Ms Clinics

  perception of living with MS. Today, we have an opportunity to make our thoughts known to our healthcare teams. A small group of us living with this disease have been asked to present to an all-staff meeting at one of my local MS Clinics. This center is renowned, not only in the Pacific Northwest of the US, but all over the country and the

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