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alzheimers news-what if you could get a vaccine against it

ALZHEIMERS NEWS-WHAT IF YOU COULD GET A VACCINE AGAINST IT 
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when i was first diagnosed 16 years ago i read about the idea of an alzheimers vaccine
you could get a shot on a regular basis to prevent you from getting alzheimers 
sort of like you do when you get your flu shot or covid shot

it was exciting to think of that happening
however
16 years later it still has not happened yet

when i first started talking and writing about alzheimers i wrote that the new vaccines were here but what they were was not vaccines but were infusions of antiamyloid antibodies  

one of the first to appear was my drug aduhelm or aducanumab
it was derived from older people who did not get alzheimers
so they made large quantities of this antibody these folks had in the lab
then
gave them to me and others in clinical trials

i identified this drug aducanumab later called aduhelm when it was in early clinical trials 15 years ago
there were other promising ones that that did not finish clinical trials
this happens to a lot of drugs

about 5 years after i discovered aducanumab i received 34 monthly infusions of aduhelm or aducanumab in a clinical trial i was in off and on for 6 years
once it was paused for covid and another time to look at the accumulated data
it took that long before it was available in a phase 3 trial
it would be 6 years before i finished my treatement
thats 12 years from when i first read  an article on the drug and tracked down the clinical trial

my initial amyloid pet scan in 2016 was positive for amyloid plaque
my final amyloid pet scans 2 years ago in 2024 was negative for amyloid plaque
a 2 year follow up amyloid pet scan done this year 2026 was still negative for amyloid plaque

hopefully removing this amyloid plaque will slow down the disease some
estimates are is a 30% slow down
not prefect but i will take it

this treatment took me 6 years of over 50 trips of 9 hours to first the university of texas southwestern in dallas and later ucla

my drug aduhelm was taken off the market since its sister drug leqembi worked better and now leqembi can be given as injections at home instead of going to an infusion center

another drug called kisunla works similar and is available

if i need retreatment i plan on take leqembi injections at home

what if
what if 

you could just take an alzheimers vaccine that removes the amyloid and if it works would slow down the disease by removing amyloid from the brain

you could get one every year

that time may soon now be here

a company called neurovax has developed a vaccine called av-19558r

it was given to 16 patients 4 were placebos
the 12 that got the real drug developed antibodies against amyloid
the study did not look at did it remove the amyloid

now they have a phase 1 study of 160 participants with amyloid in the brain and they will be given av-19558r and followed longer to see if it removes the amyloid

if that works then on to phase 2 then phase 3
if it really works it might be available in 5-10 years

just think in a few years if you have amyloid plaques without memory loss you might be able to get a vaccine that will remove the amyloid plaques from the brain like aduhelm did for me

without doing all those lengthy infusion visits

Just a shot in the arm like a flu shot
or
it might not work at all 

we are getting closer
when looking at early research you never know where it will lead
the potential is there for this one for sure

Here is the link to an article on the neurovax vaccine

now we wait

if you are in the alzheimers world i suggest you follow beingpatient.com to keep up with what is happening in the alzheimers world

i daily read articles on alzheimers and follow beingpatient.com looking for the next treatment that may help

yes
i would take this vaccine in a study if i could

that is me talking and crying with the crowd at the walk to end alzheimers a couple of years ago
my wife and i have done the walk to end alzheimers for the last 16 years

join us or donate to our team or join and donate to a local team for your local walk to end alzheimers

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