Learning to effectively manage stress and anxiety is important for everyone. And if you're living with the unpredictability of MS, it may be doubly important.
Joining me to discuss the impact that stress and anxiety can have on your physical and mental health, along with strategies you can use to manage the stress and anxiety in your life, is Dr. Bree Wannamaker. Dr. Wannamaker lives with MS, and she's a Licensed Professional Counselor and Chief Therapist & Consultant in her practice, Just Us Counseling and Consulting, LLC.
We're also sharing the results of a study that compared patient outcomes among people with relapsing-remitting MS who were started on a high-efficacy disease-modifying therapy and people with relapsing-remitting MS who were started on a lower efficacy DMT.
We'll tell you about remyelination research that led to a surprising conclusion.
We'll share the details about Crush MS, an amazing event in Napa Valley that brings together wine, food, and music to raise money for MS research. I hope I'll see you there!
And if you're on Ocrevus, we have some potentially time-saving news to share with you!
We have a lot to talk about! Are you ready for RealTalk MS??!
This Week: Managing stress and anxiety if you're living with MS :22
A research team analyzed the outcomes for people with MS who were started on a high-efficacy DMT and compared them to the outcomes for people with MS who were started on a lower-efficacy DMT 1:18
An experimental therapy promoted remyelination by upending the commonly held scientific hypothesis about myelin repair 6:53
I'll be at Crush MS! Will I see you there? 9:53
An Ocrevus treatment in just 10 minutes? 11:31
Dr. Bree Wannamaker shares strategies for managing stress and anxiety 13:33
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STUDY: Does Initial High-Efficacy Therapy in Multiple Sclerosis Surpass Escalation Treatment Strategy? A Comparison of Patients with Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis in the Czech and Swedish National Multiple Sclerosis Registries
https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221103482300305X
TREAT-MS Clinical Trial
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RealTalk MS Episode 307
Guest: Dr. Bree Wannamaker