John
I have been taking Avonex injections for eleven years now. I have RRMS and am pretty stable with flares occurring every four years. I've had visual symptoms and rare spinal cord symptoms. I started following the MSRD in December of 2007, after having my first spinal cord symptoms. I am a strong believer in combining the medication and diet. Good luck to you!
Tammy
Since the diet and the medications work on different principles, they are not contraindicated and so can be done simultaneously. I was on Copaxone for year and a half and was overlapping while on the diet for around 6 months or so. As I started to recover, I was able to discern which foods set off symptoms for me- eggs being very clearly a problem. When I spoke to my neurologist about feeling nauseous for a few hours every time I injected Copaxone, he told me that the proteins in the drug are suspended in albumen- egg whites. So that convinced me to stop. For me, I felt no better or worse in terms of my MS symptoms- except I got hungry for my breakfast again and did not feel morning nausea any more. Please also read Ann's last blog post "Some thoughts on other alternative treatments" and her point about people developing antibodies to drugs.
Ann and I are not physicians, and like everything else around MS and treatments- we are all highly individual and so must make our own choices with the best information that we have. Every body is different and responds differently so we support your own choice is this matter. To your health, Judi