Glatiramer acetate

And we have some medications for you to have.

And at the time, Copaxone was the recommended medication, which was a self-injection that you had to inject yourself once a day.

But due to the way the medication works, it has to be injected into fat cells, but it also can kill the fat cells and create some kind of, I don't know, black skin patches or something.

So you have to rotate where you give yourself injections.

And they did another MRI on my brain and they did see lesions and I finally got a diagnosis.

And I was on Copaxone for six years and I had to stop because my eosinophil count was too high.

And so then I went on Tysabri for many years, eight or nine years, and my JCV levels were too high.

So I had to stop that.

So in both MS and in rheumatoid arthritis, and I've had many patients come to me with these diagnoses, we got them off their methotrexate.

We stopped their ABC drugs for MS with Avonex, beta-serine, Copaxone, steroids, because it wasn't true MS.

It was Lyme and Bartonella and mold driving an autoimmune demyelinating disease.

But we also had to look at the microbiome.

And so I treated my disease as aggressively as I could.

At that time, I took Copaxone.

You know, that's in 2000.

By 2003, I'm in a tilt-recline wheelchair, and I take mitoxantral, a form of chemotherapy, which I read the adverse events, 2% chance of getting acute leukemia each time I took it.