| A lot of gainsaying here. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ is where to go see that modern drugs genuinely don't alter progression. I know this is surprising. Your experience is better your outlook, alas, is not. The amount of nerve damage over time visible on MRI is not lessened. Note that by far the majority of function loss from exacerbations is usually from pressure due to local inflamation sites that blow up; they press adjacent areas hard enough to cause them to go offline, but not enough to kill cells. Re being active etc - I think we agree here, but I can try to be clearer, and say you'll be more miserable because your underlying health is better. I don't advise people to harm themselves to limit immune reactions; but that is a risk if you, say, "feel better when you overexercise" and don't realize that you are causing your innate immune system (or adaptive in the case of autoimmune diseases) to downregulate because you are creating obstacles for your body, or actively harming it. Re smoking the most recent studies are trending your way. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Ms+smoking The study I read seems to have been an error burst, as it were. I'll edit out mentions of it elsewhere. There are many other sad medical research stories, as you say, but that of MS is unrelenting and so same same it really stands out as a money-sink and narrow-minded insanity. My many decades tell me that beans won't have big multinational companies shelling out influence dollars in Congress and Parliment on the side of beans, but I hope your optimism wins that point. |