Organic Biscuit: Clinical Trials for MS: Patients Urgently Needed

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Clinical Trials for MS: Patients Urgently Needed

Being an MS patient is a full-time job. Really. It is unreal to me how much stuff I have to do and how much I have to keep track of. I spent several hours last night just organizing all of my notes, writing things on my calendar, and writing all of my notes that were on little scraps of paper everywhere into one "To Do" list. My "To Do" list has 18 items on it right now, all of them pretty important.

I had PT again yesterday afternoon. I was surprised when my therapist was doing my hamstring stretches to find that I had a complete lack of sensation in my right leg. I could feel the "stretch" in the left leg, and last time I felt it in both, so I guess that the MS was to blame.

Last night I went to my monthly MS support group meeting. We watched the first part of a video on clinical trials for MS drugs and therapies. I am anxious to learn more, and would be open to participating in one. I was given a guidebook to read and will probably try to work that in tomorrow since it is the weekend.

For MS'ers, you can find a lot of information about clinical trials at the NMSS website here.

There are a lot of trials all over the country, and patients are urgently needed so if you are the least bit interested check out the link.

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