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ToeMissile
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I prefer to eat 1lb of dried mango. Delicious and effective.
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Got a 1,000 mg infusion of corticosteroids. I had 1,000 each day for 5 days before. But this is incredibly crap at the moment. I kept my blood sugar under control like last time but it's so fucking hot. I went to the office in the shop which has a window unit and turned it on full blast. It's only mid 60's outside but it's hot like August when it's 101F crawling up in the attic to work for a while. If this doesn't pass I'm skipping the infusion today. Same exact thing as before. Last time I felt like I could run a marathon before lunch just to get stretched out. Then after the five days was done after a while I got incredibly stiff. I mean like board stiff, don't don't me I might fall over stiff, and sore.
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I had a sed rate test to show how much inflamation. I've had it several times and never showed much. I kinda figured when it feels very bad I don't go in to the doctor or hospital. I haven't got the results yet but the doctor said it was very bad. Said to take more of the stuff I'm already taking.
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Noodleface
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Removed another diabetes pill from my regimen. So far I've stopped glimepiride and saxagliptin. I'm now only taking metformin and farxiga. I'm hoping within the next year I can get rid of farxiga. I don't mind metformin since it's a miracle drug.
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Noodleface
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My brother in law started a new infusion deal that is "new". I'm not sure if it's expiremental. It took his insurance a long time to approve it. He has arterial dementia which I had never heard of an apparently was called hardening of the arteries. He's pretty thin, 6'-6 and maybe 230 at most. Genetic maybe. He did develop type 2 diabetes which was not a surprise and I told him forever. He never excercises but he is thing. He bought a bike to get some excercise, nothing fancy just a bike. He made it about 5 feet down the driveway and went over the handlebars and broke his shoulder. That is him to a T.
Anyway once I was at my sisters house and she was finishing up cooking and he got hungry so sitting around waiting he ate a whole box of little debbie snack cakes. Type 2 shouldn't have been a shock.
I asked how much the dementia infusion was costing and nobody knows.
Anyway once I was at my sisters house and she was finishing up cooking and he got hungry so sitting around waiting he ate a whole box of little debbie snack cakes. Type 2 shouldn't have been a shock.
I asked how much the dementia infusion was costing and nobody knows.
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I just wasn't aware there was an infusion or anything related for any kind of dementia.
Guessing he has a limited time for it. He is past retirement age but on my sisters insurance. Maybe mediciad pays for that stuff, maybe not. No idea. They didn't know or nobody they asked knew either.
If he falls or has any kind of semi hard hit to his body he has to get an MRI immediately which sounds odd. Speaking of which I got an advertisement on a video for some new MS medication. Maybe if you had MS really bad. Could cause brain infection, could cause brain damage, could cause hepatitis, severe allergies which could lead to death. I'm sure those are all rare but gotta love pharma advertisements.
Guessing he has a limited time for it. He is past retirement age but on my sisters insurance. Maybe mediciad pays for that stuff, maybe not. No idea. They didn't know or nobody they asked knew either.
If he falls or has any kind of semi hard hit to his body he has to get an MRI immediately which sounds odd. Speaking of which I got an advertisement on a video for some new MS medication. Maybe if you had MS really bad. Could cause brain infection, could cause brain damage, could cause hepatitis, severe allergies which could lead to death. I'm sure those are all rare but gotta love pharma advertisements.
sleevedraw
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There's Lequembi and Kisunla, but those are for Alzheimer's, not vascular dementia. It is possible that he has both, which leads to a condition called mixed dementia. Both are very new. Both cost between $25,000 to $35,000 per year...which is still a hell of a lot cheaper than CAR-T, which can be a half million...per dose.
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moonarchia
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sleevedraw
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No, it's made from someone's own T-cells. Reason that it's so expensive is that it's semi-bespoke.
Basically:
Step "0" - figure out an antigen of interest
1) Take T cells from someone (typically the cancer patient's own, but can also be an allogeneic donor)
2) Use CRISPR or a viral vector to force the T-cells to express a chimeric antigen receptor (that's the CAR) - a mishmash of a standard T-cell receptor and the target antigen of interest
3) Let the engineered cells grow in culture
4) Inject back into someone's body
Very labor intensive.
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moonarchia
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Damn, blended fetuses really would be cheaper and easier. Sounds a lot like what that guy used AI to try and decancerfy his dog.
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Sheriff Cad
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Any of the targeted immunotherapies are going to be expensive, but they also work. It is similar to what that guy used AI to try to cure his dog's cancer, kinda. The dog way was basically like a vaccine, they made a portion of the cancer cell as an mRNA payload and injected that, causing the immune system to look for those patterns elsewhere too ... right in the cancer cells! Supposed to work also. CAR-T is a much more direct genetic reprogramming of the T-cells rather than injecting particles which will hopefully train the immune system, you're directly training it by genetic means.
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