Alternative therapies
Evening all, I am in a bit of a quandry atm and I'm trying to make decisions to put me on a better path. I am on daily CXopaxone injections and to be honest I feel worse on these than I did before so after some soul searching last night I've decided to can my medication (not until I've spoke to my ms nurse). I've been losing vast amounts of hair, getting horrendous lumps that are red, hot and itchy at injection site plus just feel generally rubbish. I'm looking to try alternative therapies and wondered if anyone had done this and found a difference? Any advice would be gratefully appreciated as I'm feeling a bit out on a limb at the moment. Thanks in advance x
@celinec , DMDs are like other medications, they're "horses for courses", so what works for one person, doesn't work for another. So, yes, have a chat with your MS Nurse primarily and discuss what the options are. I should imagine that the interferons may be the next DMDs to try, unless you've already tried these prior to the Copaxone. It's not unusual for some to have a problem with one or other of the DMDs, so discussing it with your MS Nurse is the best way forward.
Glad you're going to speak to your nurse, because although Copaxone isn't suiting you, stopping meds altogether is not the only option. There's two points, really: a)how you feel day to day and b) what's going on unseen in your body. The Copaxone is hopefully helping to stabilise the MS: if it isn't, other drugs can be tried. Alternative therapies can be useful to improve your feeling of wellbeing, which in turn may help in the aim of being in optimal health. For example, a massage is marvellous at de-stressing you and many MSers feel really good when following a special diet, e.g. Swank. But alternative therapies don't deal with the underlying damage caused by the condition. To my mind, it's not an 'either - or' between meds and alternative therapies. They're both important.