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Mika

Starting Campath or having children?

Dear MS community, I have only been diagnosed with MS in January this year but have had 4, possibly 5 relapses (mild ones) already and my neuro says I'd be a good candidate for Campath. I'm going to be 29 in December and I know it's silly but my biological clock is TICKING like hell. My MS nurse told me that I'll probably be ok to start the treatment soon this year and now I'm wondering: "should I go ahead and "lose" another 2 years before even trying for a baby, or have a baby and do it afterwards?" Thing is, I'm super stressed about my fertility as I have quite irregular periods as well and if I think too much about all of this I'm crumbling to pieces, so I mostly go around pretending everything is totally fine.. It's difficult for me to remember I have MS, because if there is such a thing, so far it's been kind of benign and not too disabling like for some of us, which makes me feel really guilty and I then find it easy to think of it as a passing ailment, wondering about misdiagnosis etc..... I was wondering whether anyone else is going to go on Campath, has started it, been on it for a while and could share their experience? Or even if not, what do you think?
@Stumbler

@Mika, an understandable conundrum. I've copied a link from the Barts MS Blog, where Tysabri was compared to Lemtrada (formerly Campath) http://www.slideshare.net/fullscreen/gavingiovannoni/natalizumab-vs-alemtuzumab/1 You'll notice that halfway down the Lemtrada column, that it suggests that pregnancy can be considered once the immune system has reconstituted. So, it would seem that Lemtrada is more "strategic" for family planning. There's been a few discussions on Lemtrada. Use the Forum search capability (magnifying glass top left) and search for Lemtrada. @US-Emma has firsthand experience of this treatment, so hopefully she will comment.

@Mika

Thank you @Stumbler, I easily oversee the magnifying glass T_T I'll use it more in future, thanks!