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    Unpronounceable MS drugs

    The MS Association of America has put out a summary of existing MS drugs as well as MS drugs under development. A link to it is posted in the Useful Websites sticky thread at the top of the page.

    Trying to pronounce some of them will be a challenge for anyone, especially for those with MS-related speech problems:

    secukinumab
    firategrast
    idabenone
    masitinib
    ocrelizumab
    ofatumumab
    Tcelna (formerly Tovaxin but that must have been too easy to say)
    SPMS diagnosed 1980. Avonex 2001-2004. Copaxone 2006-2009. Glatopa (glatiramer acetate = Copaxone) 12/20 - 3/19/24.
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    One thing I look at, even if I can't pronounce the name, is the end of the word. If it ends in-"mab" it is a monoclonal antibody. Those can cause PML. Good to know this right away.
    ANN
    There comes a time when silence is betrayal.- MLK

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      #3
      They all sound scary to me, unnatural and to be avoided,
      unless you will die without them.
      Love, Sally


      "The best way out is always through". Robert Frost






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        #4
        Firategrast sounds like a monster's name.


        Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally. Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. -- Miguel Ruiz

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          #5
          Em' mus be some kind ah furin' words. U ain't from aroun' heer, iz yah?
          "Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist."

          Albert Einstein

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            #6
            Yes, like the title of a new Steven King novel..lol

            I think it lives under the sea, Howie.
            Last edited by SalpalSally; 02-20-2014, 11:30 AM.
            Love, Sally


            "The best way out is always through". Robert Frost






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              #7
              Wow, crazy names for drugs that I don't want to try!
              We could get some use out of them by making a fun game . . . let's see . . . how many real words can be made using letters out of the drug name "secukinumab".
              Howie should enjoy this one!
              I'll start . . . suck, (that was the first word I saw when I looked at that drug name . . . what does that say about me?) numbs, mask, bums, skum, banks, smack . . . . . He who uses the most letters wins!
              Heck, then we could go on to make Haikus out of them! Imagine the possibilities!

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                #8
                Med Haiku

                Take firategrast
                idabenone comes second
                masitinib is last
                Last edited by Howie; 02-20-2014, 04:14 PM.
                "Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist."

                Albert Einstein

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                  #9


                  Firategrast?
                  SPMS diagnosed 1980. Avonex 2001-2004. Copaxone 2006-2009. Glatopa (glatiramer acetate = Copaxone) 12/20 - 3/19/24.

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                    #10
                    How about using it in a sentence? "I was absolutely firategrasted by his rudeness!"


                    Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally. Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. -- Miguel Ruiz

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                      #11
                      Or a swearword that would get past the censors?

                      Oh, Crelizumab!

                      (I'm just guessing on where the accent goes.)

                      Indulging in silliness here. But sometimes you just have to get a few laughs out of this stuff.
                      Last edited by agate; 02-20-2014, 05:07 PM.
                      SPMS diagnosed 1980. Avonex 2001-2004. Copaxone 2006-2009. Glatopa (glatiramer acetate = Copaxone) 12/20 - 3/19/24.

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                        #12
                        My dad worked for a pharmaceutical company, and he was like a walking PDR. Knew everything about every drug. A very smart man.

                        My mom let me try to eat a bar of soap, and I of course got choked. She panicked and ran to a next door neighbor, me naked and wet, and when I hit that cold, winter air, I started breathing again.

                        And that's the story of why I like wearing a thong, even in Winter.
                        "Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist."

                        Albert Einstein

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                          #13
                          Yep, I have sweet memories of eating soap immediately after uttering naughty words as a child. I think it may have caused me to get MS and to develop a warped sense of humor. Idabenone of this if it weren't for the soap.

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                            #14
                            Howie, that explains so much. ;)

                            Carry on,
                            ANN
                            There comes a time when silence is betrayal.- MLK

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                              #15
                              Doesn't it now!
                              "Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist."

                              Albert Einstein

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