Health Boards
Wed-11-01-2017, 21:08 PM
I can fully understand you being annoyed by it Jim as will a lot of our members that are not only doing well on it like yourself, but are being prescribed and monitored by a professional.
So let's try to understand why they would be saying this. I know where this has come from and the problem to me is simple.
#1 This propaganda has been posted in this way as there is an ulterior motive.
#2 The site in question is sponsored by big pharmaceutical companies.
#3 Biogen bought Fumapharm AG in 2006 (The makers of Fumaderm) and it's still traded under that name in the EU.
#4 Tecfidera (also owned by Biogen) say in their own words from their website "Tecfidera® (dimethyl fumarate) is a prescription medicine used to treat people with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis".
#5 March 2013 FDA approves new multiple sclerosis treatment Tecfidera. (Erm isn't that dimethyl fumarate, but said site says "the FDA has not approved Fumaderm or any other fumaric acid ester drugs)
Although Biogen are still selling Fumaderm in the EU, they don't want it in the USA as they would prefer to use it for MS as it would make them more money.
So ?????????????????????????? well do your own thinking. All I can say is although I'm biased I would prefer to listen to people like yourself who are using it and being monitored by your health care provider than a pharma sponsored website.
We have many members using Fumaderm (dimethyl fumarate) and getting very good results from it, even Bill is doing well on his own (though I don't condone his methods myself, his evidence is there for all to see) so this is nothing but scaremongering in my opinion and we can all find bad things about All treatments out there if we want to. As you know I'm a big Bio fan, but they too have given problems if you look around so it all comes down to wording and propaganda.
It's a shame that pharma companies can have such a pull over so called support sites, but at least we are independent and people with psoriasis will have to make their own choices.
I'll hop off my soap box now.
So let's try to understand why they would be saying this. I know where this has come from and the problem to me is simple.
#1 This propaganda has been posted in this way as there is an ulterior motive.
#2 The site in question is sponsored by big pharmaceutical companies.
#3 Biogen bought Fumapharm AG in 2006 (The makers of Fumaderm) and it's still traded under that name in the EU.
#4 Tecfidera (also owned by Biogen) say in their own words from their website "Tecfidera® (dimethyl fumarate) is a prescription medicine used to treat people with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis".
#5 March 2013 FDA approves new multiple sclerosis treatment Tecfidera. (Erm isn't that dimethyl fumarate, but said site says "the FDA has not approved Fumaderm or any other fumaric acid ester drugs)
Although Biogen are still selling Fumaderm in the EU, they don't want it in the USA as they would prefer to use it for MS as it would make them more money.
So ?????????????????????????? well do your own thinking. All I can say is although I'm biased I would prefer to listen to people like yourself who are using it and being monitored by your health care provider than a pharma sponsored website.
We have many members using Fumaderm (dimethyl fumarate) and getting very good results from it, even Bill is doing well on his own (though I don't condone his methods myself, his evidence is there for all to see) so this is nothing but scaremongering in my opinion and we can all find bad things about All treatments out there if we want to. As you know I'm a big Bio fan, but they too have given problems if you look around so it all comes down to wording and propaganda.
It's a shame that pharma companies can have such a pull over so called support sites, but at least we are independent and people with psoriasis will have to make their own choices.
I'll hop off my soap box now.