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I want to know, too! I love my coffee- never got into sodas since I was a preteen, and I am wondering if my cup of coffee is a culprit! thanks for the input :)

These "studies" have researched very specific questions, with more often than not, are to prove a predetermined point of view.

I remember when my kids - now in their 30's - tried to tell me that they didn't get any caffeine after downing a 32 oz Mountain Dew. Their behavior changed from the sugar not caffeine. I finally figured it out tho.

It comes sugar free now & I love it. But then a 32 oz coffee is my daily breakfast of choice!

I like you have and still do drink Mt. Dew like it maybe gone tomorrow!!! lol lol And was told in 07 have RRMS. If I drink Diet Mt. Dew which I like my MS symptoms flare up. So I don't drink it..which is a bummer. Take Care

Coffee seems to help me, rather than hurt.

I love tea and i drink loads of it but it's nothing to do with MS I just love it. I refuse to make a link btwn caffeine and MS - good or bad. They're always dreaming up tenuous links btwn things and MS - just cos they haven't come up with any clear cut thing to attribute MS to.

What works on mice doesn't necessarily work on humans. There was a long post about this coffee subject recently and many people who replied drink lots of coffee.

This just tells me: THEY REALLY KNOW NOTHING. Look at the history of MS. We've come a long way - but there's still so far to go.

Exactly what went through my head: Man vs. Mouse. MS vs. "mouse equivalent." Apple pies vs. cow pies.

More funding wasted on another useless study to tell us something we've known all along or tell us nothing at all?

MS isn't new, but it doesn't affect enough of us to warrant bigger efforts. Not only do we not have a cure or way to reverse the damage (what has me banging my head on the wall: It takes forever to diagnose and usually then only after ruling out other diseases, forcing us to wait to suffer ANOTHER attack and MORE plaques instead of giving us what they have quickly and maybe lower our risk of losing MORE function and - oh, oh, oh - PRESERVE OUR QUALITY OF LIFE), one med (Copaxone) they do finally give us is only to "try" to prevent flares. Setting aside the fact that it costs more than I earn in a month, they can't even tell us how it does what they say it does, so how do we even know it's really "working"?

I'm getting more upset, the more I think about it, about the whole process of nonsense. ARGH!