Now that is very interesting, Redo - etanercept is generating reports of
fast responses in a wide variety of conditions, which is always interesting if you can reasonably believe that the fast effect is not just from the power of suggestion.
Thinking out loud:
One example of many video testimonials, this one in the setting of post stroke:
"Rapid improvement in chronic stroke deficits following perispinal etanercept"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uDOudjOshY @1:45
"...within ten minutes following the treatment..."
There's a Dr. Tobinick who seems to be the pioneer in using etanercept off label in novel applications. I suppose all of the testimonials are Pts of his practice - has also seems to have patented a spinal injection procedure.
A published Tobinick case study:
"Rapid cognitive improvement in Alzheimer's disease following perispinal etanercept administration"
http://www.jneuroinflammation.com/content/5/1/2
(seems like a high impact factor article, FFT)
Yet here is a complaint that Amgen does not support research in novel uses, only independent researchers are doing so:
"Keynote: Repurposing of Enbrel® for Alzheimer"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvL9j9GRfds @3:36
It looks as if TNF blockers just maybe can have the potential to knock RTX out of the box for use in management of CFS one day. I see that etanercept is also being used for sciatica pain, so maybe it'd even work for M.E. pain, in some undefined population subset.
An India made version:
http://www.tajdrug.com/Etanercept.htm
It's home injected subQ in many uses, btw. [edit: I wonder if some daring and/or desperate soul has ordered up a few prefilled syringes and took a shot at it.]
That's enough typing for now. I think I'm going to get some beakers and a hamster and mix some up. If I don't post again, then that probably means it didn't go so well