stopping acerbations

[MCBCON]

there a way of stopping an acerbation episode besides a heavy dose of steroids?

[Heather3418]

I do not call my Neuro everytime I have a flair up.  I just keep track of the number of times I have one, to give her that information at my regular visit.  If I am having Optic Neuritis with my exacerbation, I will call her right away.  That should be treated with Solumedrol as soon as possible.

Heather

[MCBCON]

My typings quite bqd the dqys

I did mean my post as question.

I wonder what good it does to call my nuerologist if he cqnnot do anything?

[Heather3418]

If there is a way to stop a flair-up in it's tracks, I would like to know what it is.  Even steroids are no guarantee that it will stop a flair-up.  It's usually given for periods of Optic Neuritis, where your very sight is at risk.

As far as I know, there is NOTHING that will stop a flair-up, only things to hopefully slow it down or help prevent the flair-up from starting and that is the disease modifying drugs, like Betaseron, Copaxone, Rebif, Avonex and the other one that I can never spell....

Wouldn't it be great if scientists finally found something that would knock a flair-up out in it's tracks?  The only thing I know of right now, which is not an option at my age, is pregnancy....where the immune system calms its little tail down, to allow the "foreign" body growing inside of you, to develop.  Of course, after that precious one is delivered, one can expect a flair-up in their symptoms within six months.  This is why scientists are looking at the pregnancy hormone as a way of telling the immune system to stop its nonsense.  There's hope...

Heather