'It was okay, but my hair's still not growing in,' she noted, as Dr. The chemo is what's the MS cure, if it does, in fact, do that.'ĭespite 'some complications,' Blair said the process 'went pretty smoothly.' I had a great support system, but I did have more chemo than for cancer patients because the aim is to kind of kill you, and it's the stem cells that allow you to live with the amount of chemo. 'I'm here, though! We don't have to worry about that. You kind of make your plans for death, told my son I'm doing this, he would like me cremated,' she added with a chuckle.

So I was like, 'Oh, maybe I just have too much junk in there, and that killed some junk? What do I care if it kills my whole body, 'cause my whole body's like one big macrophage of yuck.'' This is horrible.' But I was kind of out of options, and I was looking, and when he put me on a micro-dose of chemo months before the transplant to see how it worked, I immediately felt some relief. Why would I put this horrible drug in it? Chemotherapy? I don't have cancer.

'I was like, 'I am not ruining my body, what's left of it. 'I had no intention of doing ,' she went on. Selma Blair Debuts Shaved Head, Reveals She's 'Immunocompromised' Burt at Northwestern, and that someone also sent me there to see him.' And it was strange, so someone mentioned Dr. 'I don't wanna scare people away, the disease modifiers didn't work for me at the time, and I was really declining more rapidly than I found acceptable. 'I haven't talked about it much yet 'cause I've been wanting to show everyone that the proof is in the pudding, but my pudding is still kind of scrambled,' explained Blair, whose speech has been affected by spasmodic dysphonia, a symptom of the disease. He asked the 47-year-old mother of one about what the experience was like on the receiving end. In addition to experiencing her usual and debilitating MS symptoms, 'we hammer the hell out of you with a drug,' Dr. Angus revealed Blair recently 'went through one of the most aggressive and almost barbaric treatments we have in medicine' - a stem cell transplant - which he explained was 'aggressive chemotherapy to, in a sense, reset own immune system.'

Actress with ms stem cell treatment