Mike Has MS
Neurologist, Part 2
I went to see my neurologist this morning. She’s awesome. One of the things we talked about is the fact that my liver doesn’t appearing to be functioning properly. It explains why I’m B12 deficient. Before anything else, she ordered another set of bloodwork to confirm her suspicions. If the bloodwork comes back as expected, I’ll be coming off the Rebif. That’s three injections a week I won’t need to deal with. Obviously, this makes me very happy. But there is a catch. I’ll also be starting B12 injections. That means an intial week where I have injections three times that week. After that, it’s a monthly injection. I can handle this. The problem is that it’s an intramuscular injection. While I’m not thrilled about this, it will hopefully get me over this “always tired” thing.
I need to wait a few days before the bloodwork comes back. Then we’ll know for sure.
Mike
Hope you get good news from the doc, but dont worry too much about IM injections. They arent too hard to do, or to learn to do. I did them when I was doing some infertility stuff. Im not really all that flexible and I could still turn around and reach my own butt flank to do it. First few times are wierd, but it goes fine after that.
Posted by (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 09/17 at 05:24 PMOh, I know all about IM injections. I did that for two years while I was on Avonex. It sucked, but I did it.
Posted by Mike on 09/17 at 06:54 PM
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