Sat-12-09-2015, 15:02 PM
(Sat-12-09-2015, 11:05 AM)bassman Wrote: OK Fred, thanks for the info
Bassman,
Fred removes the links to other psoriasis sites or to specific products.
Not all links though are removed. E.g. You can place a link to a YouTube of a song or something. It will not work as a real link, but you know the process of copy and paste.
Normally you can send real links through the PM system.
BUT.... Please do keep the discussion like above with Bill, in the open, as we all can learn from that discussion and from the experiences.
Bill states that DMF is potentially harmful, which it is, there is a risk of too low lymphocytes if you are unlucky and these become too low, which can lead to PML, what you certainly don't want to have.
The reduction of lymphocyte count is seen in the beginning of the treatment, with most of the people this will return to normal levels, like Jim. Mine is by the way still on the edge, but I observe myself very well and I am hardly ill, only about two times a year a have bit of a flu, but way less than e.g. my colleagues, and real influenza I have rather seldom.
If you compare DMF, with 3 known cases of PML, to MTX with hundreds of cases of PML, I personally think that DMF is way preferable to MTX, regarding also the fact that the last one is pure poison.