Subject: Re: does betaseron work? (Not looking promising)

From: [email-masked] (World's Largest Leprechaun)
Date: 24 Sep 1996 18:22:46 GMT

In <3236f940.12084676@news>, [email-masked] wrote:
>
> What you say about the availability of certain treatments on the NHS
> is probably true but I would not want to take Betaseron or Avonex for
> progressive MS because no one is claiming they would have any effect.
> From what I've read they only work in a small number of cases for RRMS.

My wife's been taking Avonex for 2 or 3 months.  She can't walk any better,
but now she can sometimes completely void her bladder.  She couldn't do it
before.  Then again, her condition may not be progressive yet.  It's hard
to tell.

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