Gratitude

I have this feeling of a great amount of gratitude about my new medication. I feel so grateful that research is being done everyday for new and better medications. I do have to start off saying that I was always very grateful that there was even medication out there when I was first diagnosed. The first doctor told me I was lucky there is some sort of medication to slow the progression down. I remember thinking...Oh yea, real lucky to have just been told you have a disease that could put my in a wheelchair one day. But then shortly after that, I do remember thinking, he is right. People diagnosed 10-20 years ago were told they have MS and that was it. Now, there are medications to not only help slow the progression down but also to help aid in the symptoms that come along with having MS. I was able to start a new treatment called Tysaburi in March. After four years on a treatment called Avonex, I have been switched. The past four years with the first treatment were fine, but awful as well. I was sick every Sunday nigh and Monday for four years. The medication gave flu like symptoms. And the not so fun feelings of being hit by a truck, body chills and aches, headaches, and nothing but feeling like crap. For two days. I had enough. But kept fighting through it thinking it had to get better. Well then in October of last year, my optic neutitis flarred up again, and then again twice in December/January. Now the doctor said, time to talk new treatment, this is not going right. So he suggested the new medication. I could not believe there was something out there that would not make me sick. It is a once a month iv injection for about two hours. It is incredible. I sit there, take a break, and pray that this is working and thank God that I feel like I got my life back. No more two days a week out, no more feeling like I have the flu every week, my life is back!!! I am sooo grateful for this new medication. Life is good! I hope others will be able to take this path one day too. And keep your fingers crosses my MRI in August will show this is working!!! Please please please!!!