Reply To: Determining Axonal Damage Using EMG Results

By the way, your mother’s treatment is similar to mine, except that my treatment with prednisone and Cellcept started right after my plasma exchange. IvIg did nothing much for me, either. I don’t understand why there was so much delay in using drugs for your mother.

May I ask how many PE treatments she had, initially? Five is common, but I had nine. I think the number is largely determined by what the insurance company will pay for. This is a problem, because more is better. One treatment is not 100% efficient, so every subsequent treatment in a series increases the reduction in the components which are removed by the treatment. In my case, the treatment was effective. I have had no signs of relapse four years out of the hospital.