The story from Sring could almost be mine! I was diagnosed September 2010 when my daughter was 11 months old (and breastfeeding), following a severe case of unilateral facial numbness (spent the night in ER with suspected blod clot in brain). However, following a very clear cut MRI that was indisputable everything moved really fast from then. I was offered places on clinical trials for oral medications but was then discounted because i was breastfeeding. Then i was given a list of drugs to choose from including Rebif, the interferons, and Copaxone (my neuro said they are all basically the same in terms of effectiveness and to pick one that i could live with in terms of regime and side effects) but that i could not start any while breastfeeding because there were just too many unknowns. So I held off. I was not ready yet to quit breastfeeding - i had a very difficult delivery (long labour - emerg c-section -hemorrhage- 2L blood loss - required transfusions) and because I was in bad shape breastfeeding was a real battle to get going. But after many many tearful sessions we figured it out and finally enjoyed it.
Sadly my return to full time work and daycare for my girl gradually brought our breastfeeding journey to an end although i did pump at work for 2 months and would recommend it to anyone (it is not as scary as you initially think it will be). So then I began copaxone.
Sadly my return to full time work and daycare for my girl gradually brought our breastfeeding journey to an end although i did pump at work for 2 months and would recommend it to anyone (it is not as scary as you initially think it will be). So then I began copaxone.
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