Mary,

With all due respect, and I have said it before but I, personally, am not taking any of the big-3 drugs because I've been diagnosed with primary progressive MS and that form of the disease does NOT respond to any of those drugs according to my neurologist at the Mayo Clinic. He felt that the side effects, of which there are some quite unpleasant ones, would not be worth the slight and minute chance I MIGHT have my disease stopped for a while where it is----but that it'll most assuredly continue on it's merry way. Keeping my life style intact without those side effects is more important to me right now.

Soooo--this is why I do what I do---and why others might do it too. Please, no need to "continually be surprised" any more.

Art Thieme