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Campath-1H - multiple sclerosis encyclopaedia
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Campath-1H is an experimental drug treatment for multiple sclerosis. Organ transplant rejection and several types of leukemia. The generic name for Campath is alemtuzumab. Campath-1H works by destroying the body's T cells. Which are believed to be responsible for initiating the destructive process seen in multiple sclerosis. In one small trial of 27 people with Secondary Progressive MS (SPMS). The drug was found to virtually eliminate the formation of new lesions. These oligodendrocytes normally feed the...
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Alemtuzumab, MS and me: October 2012
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Alemtuzumab, MS and me. Can alemtuzumab help keep Multiple Sclerosis at bay? Sian Gwilym records her experience of it. Alemtuzumab, MS and me. David Sturt's experience with Campath. Monday, 22 October 2012. Last week I reached a stage where I finally feel I've accepted that MS is part of me. It happened without me even realising it. Someone from work - who works in a different department - asked me if my son would like to go to her son's birthday party in November. Oh dear, everything alright? Maybe it i...
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Alemtuzumab, MS and me: Loosening the mind trip grip
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Alemtuzumab, MS and me. Can alemtuzumab help keep Multiple Sclerosis at bay? Sian Gwilym records her experience of it. Alemtuzumab, MS and me. David Sturt's experience with Campath. Thursday, 18 April 2013. Loosening the mind trip grip. Shhhh - I don't want to say this too loud, but I feel so convinced this time that I'm going to say it. I don't want to make too much song and dance about it but I have to share. Ok *deep breath* here goes. I think I might have got through the MS mind trip! Enough was enou...
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Alemtuzumab, MS and me: March 2012
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Alemtuzumab, MS and me. Can alemtuzumab help keep Multiple Sclerosis at bay? Sian Gwilym records her experience of it. Alemtuzumab, MS and me. David Sturt's experience with Campath. Tuesday, 13 March 2012. Sick of the sick. Being newly diagnosed with MS brings a huge head rush of emotions which need to be dealt with and over the last nine months I think I have gone through the seven stages of grief at being told this monster is now living and thriving in my body like some sort of parasitic alien. If some...
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Alemtuzumab, MS and me: August 2012
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Alemtuzumab, MS and me. Can alemtuzumab help keep Multiple Sclerosis at bay? Sian Gwilym records her experience of it. Alemtuzumab, MS and me. David Sturt's experience with Campath. Tuesday, 28 August 2012. Things have been pretty brilliant recently. I didn't delve too much into it in my last post, but I had been dealing with a bit of a mini breakdown. But I dealt with it. Then I started to put it into perspective, and you know what, I feel ok. And feeling ok has made life so much easier. They have kindl...
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Alemtuzumab, MS and me: Confidence hangover
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Alemtuzumab, MS and me. Can alemtuzumab help keep Multiple Sclerosis at bay? Sian Gwilym records her experience of it. Alemtuzumab, MS and me. David Sturt's experience with Campath. Tuesday, 22 January 2013. Sometimes things are set to try us. Sometimes we overcome them. Other times no matter how hard we try, we can't. And on the odd occasion, we won't even bother to attempt to get through it. We just let it happen. I find myself being tried by something I don't even know how to get over. We love them an...
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Alemtuzumab, MS and me: June 2013
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Alemtuzumab, MS and me. Can alemtuzumab help keep Multiple Sclerosis at bay? Sian Gwilym records her experience of it. Alemtuzumab, MS and me. David Sturt's experience with Campath. Monday, 3 June 2013. Something amazing has happened. But before I reveal all, let me take you back a bit. A short visit to the GP later I was diagnosed with something called labyrinthitis - an inner ear infection which can cause vertigo. A year or so later and MS welcomed itself into my life. So now I've filled in the gaps, l...
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Alemtuzumab, MS and me: July 2013
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Alemtuzumab, MS and me. Can alemtuzumab help keep Multiple Sclerosis at bay? Sian Gwilym records her experience of it. Alemtuzumab, MS and me. David Sturt's experience with Campath. Sunday, 7 July 2013. End of an era. My first MRI scan since I had two rounds of Alemtuzumab treatment has almost brought me to tears. But those tears are of joy because the scan was only totally clear of any new MS activity on my brain! I don't know how long for and quite frankly any time at all is a bonus. When my world turn...