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But this makes it sound less appealing, from the Royal London blog: Aminopyridines, a family of compounds to which Fampridine belongs, works by lowering the requirements for axons (the electrical cabling of nerves) by blocking a specific group of proteins on their surface called voltage-gated potass...

More like two steps forwards and one step back, no?

My favourite topic this, the regeneration of axons.. But aren't people clever? http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/ChemTech/Volume/2010/02/circular_chips.asp Circular chips study nerve cells 19 January 2010 Scientists in the US have designed a circular microchannel pattern to study nerve cell interactions...

Apuman wrote:I've definetly had changes in my MS correspond to major changes in altitude. Unfotunetly, they were never good changes..

Were they routine flights or rushed. stressful holiday flights? That could have been a contributing factors..

Thanks very much you two! It makes me glad that I posted that. I shall look into your suggestions for sure..

Is this relevant to CCSVI? I was flying transatlantic, home to the UK and when I arrived, and bear in mind my MS was at the stage when I had to give up after walking 20 meters, I walked the distance between the arrival gate and through customs faster than I would have done before MS. And the arrival...

I am susceptible to UTIs. So I have to be really careful about hygiene, showering twice a day, and I still have to rake antibiotics four or five times a year. Cranberry supplements are no good. Or so I thought. Just after Christmas I contracted another. It hadn't been long since my last one so I was...

Have a read of Erika's thread here:
http://www.thisisms.com/ftopict-8535.html

Some interesting posts

http://multiple-sclerosis-research.blogspot.com/

I thought that the post a while back concerning Fampridine was very interesting, for example.

0.2 annual relapse rate. Pretty good! Thanks.

Ah, ok then. Fair enough

Just out of interest, does anyone with MS here actually not have Reynaud's
unusually cold extremities from time to time?

msmything - I'm sorry to hear about this too..

Check your PMs though!

Yup, trimethoprim stopped me peeing, I'm sure it was the drug and not the UTI. The urologist didn't dismiss it but he wasn't at alkl convinced.

Antibiotics give me an upset stomach unless I drink an actimel a day.

msmything - Good luck!