Fampridine trial thoughts

I’ve just come off my trial period of Fampridine and I’ve decided to carry on with it. Fampridine is a potassium channel blocker which ultimately means that messages can travel along nerves more efficiently. It’s prescribed for MS patients like me, with a walking disability. It’s something I would take alongside the other medications I’m

A postcard from Limboland

A month ago, if you asked me how tall I was, I’d say I was a six footer. It seems I’m not. I’m a five-foot-ten-and-a-half short-arse apparently, so essentially I’ve lost an inch and a half (4cm) in height. Even if you consider I may have always rounded up by half an inch, and I

Back to square one

Just like the election of a pope, or the announcement of the winner in some Saturday prime time family entertainment bollocks, I expect you’re all on tenterhooks wondering which disease modifying medication I’m going to plump for. I don’t know 100%, but here’s my quick notes so far (apologies for superficiality): Beta Interferon (Rebif, Avonex,

No knee nonsense

I have no idea whether this is MS or not, but every now and then my knee gives way. And I don’t mean every day. The last time it happened was two days ago, and before that it was last week sometime. It’s happened a handful of times recently, though, and it’s a new sensation,

Hairy Angels (!)

Well, I’ve just had the stomach bug that seems to be going around. This bug floored my kids a week or so ago and put my eldest off her food for two days which is no mean feat. It floored me too, but not in the way it floored my wife, who is still having