[Oceander]

Understood, and I do apologize if anything I've said is at all hurtful. Perhaps the slight sliver of a silver lining might be that, if HIV can shortly be turned into a "minor infection" then there is no longer any justification for continuing to throw so much money and research resources at it, which should free up some of those resources to focus more on MS.

Quite frankly, I would have thought that a disease like MS would be the more challenging foe to work on for a research scientist, since HIV is, at bottom, really just a virus, albeit a rather fancy one, and we do have a fairly good grounding in dealing with a lot of virii.

[dawn53]

No offense taken whatsoever from your posts.

Positive side to MS, that I’ve seen over the years, is they seem to have developed a lot more meds to treat symptoms, even though meds to treat the disease are lagging.

I have a baclofen pump and I’d classify that as a “near miracle” in keeping me mobile and dealing with spasticity issues and pain caused by it. They now have fatigue meds (I, personally don’t take them, but I know people that do and they’re a godsend) and they use more sophisticated meds for sensory symptoms, instead of relying, as they used to on Tegretol and/or Amitriptyline. All kinds of bladder meds, if the MS should cause bladder dysfunction, walking drugs (like Ampyra) and even the use of nerve stimulating walking aids, should a person deal with foot drop.

So it’s not like they aren’t offering relief from symptoms, just no real way to guarantee stopping progression.