Spondylitis Association of America Forums General Discussion General Message Board for Ankylosing Spondylitis and Related Diseases I intentionally infested myself with hookworms

Shippingnews, why don't you post your question in a new thread. I hate to hijack scorpio's hookworm thread with a totally unrelated subject.

No. It just means that Novartis was recognized as acheving a biotech breakthrough in developing Cosentyx. It is not in any way saying that the drug is superior in treating spondyloarthropathies than anything else currently on the market. Enbrel, humira, remicade, and some other biologics were similarly recognized when they first came out. http://www.prixgalien.com/en/05/02/winners-sorted-by-medical-field.htm


Research and understanding of spondyloarthropathies has improved leaps and bounds in the past decade. I agree, it would be amazing if doctors could know exactly what drug was "Best" at treating a specific disease based on objective placebo controlled trials. Unfortunately, I don't think we are there yet for any disease. We may know that a specific class of medications works well, but I can't think of an instance where we know that X drug in a specific class works better for every person than Y drug in the same class. They are getting closer to that with cancer treatment (i.e.: genetic testing being used to determine treatment modalities.) Research will get there - just not yet.
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This is as least the third person who posts that they infected themselves with the worms and then never comes back to post progress

I dunno, is that a good thing?

I'll be honest actually... when I started coming here and reading the forum from the 1st post to the last it seemed to me that everyone started dying off. Forums with disease people are weird like that.

Eventually I was relieved to find that most of you aren't dead.

I wouldn't infect myself with the worms that everyone else in the world is trying to avoid. Maybe one day we will hear positive news, but if the starving kids in Malaysia are any indication of why people don't like being infected hookworms, i'll just run with that.

It's only been 4 months, so maybe he just doesn't have much to share yet. As we all know, 4 months is not that long in the AS world...

The best was the guy who thought that if he infected himself with AIDS that it would cancel out the AS immune system being active by being infected with a disease that takes out your immune system.

Personally I would like to see a montage of these exploits.

So this guy has never been heard of again? Creepy...

Honestly this sounds like a terrible idea.

Time flies, eh.

Guess that guy is probably no longer with us.