Clinical trial?

Symptoms and treatments
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I am 55 years old and was diagnosed with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis in 2009. I qualified as a nurse in 2011. Over time I have done some reading as many of probably have and read of a possible link between HIV medication and an improvement to MS symptoms, below are some links.

Comment: HIV drugs might help prevent multiple sclerosis, large new study suggests | UCL News - UCL – University College London.

HIV drugs might help prevent multiple sclerosis, large new study suggests

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ana.26840

HIV infection and multiple sclerosis: a case with unexpected “no evidence of disease activity” status - PMC
Could HIV drugs help treat multiple sclerosis? | NIC...
Do Antiretroviral Drugs Protect From Multiple Sclerosis by Inhibiting Expression of MS-Associated Retrovirus? - PMC

Can I ask as many people as possible to speak to their GPs, consultants and any other health care professionals to see if a formal clinical trial can be conducted.

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This theory is about ten years old now and didn’t think anything came of it. Interesting to see it has surfaced again.

Shana Pezaro

Raltegravir | MS Society

New insights into risk of MS in people living with HIV | MS Society

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I believe it is older than that, I believe it surfaced during the 80’s aids crisis. People were wishing to distance themselves from anything involving the stigma of AIDS.

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For what it’s worth I tend to think that antivirals and also antibiotics could well help protect against MS on the ‘grounds’ that if you have a susceptible genome then a bad viral or bacterial infection is going to fire up your immune system and cause some ‘collateral damage’ to the patient’s Central nervous system.