Don't bother with it. I've known ppl who have done it; one is now PMS. Amongst the research i have done over the years, it's off my list. However, there are ways, non-pharmaceutical, that can bolster your health and immune system.

When I was about 10 years old, I was racing my cousin up a old metal clothes line pole. I got the one with the bees nest in it! I was stung by about 15 bees....and I still got MS, I can't imagine someone doing that on purpose! But who knows, it may help some people, I just know it didn't help me, and I got a megga dose!...lol

Bee sting therapy is an alternative treatment that supposedly "treats" MS (and a host of other autoimmune diseases) by stimulating the immune system through the inflammatory responses that happen with each sting. Someone undergoing "therapy" may sting themselves anywhere between 80 and 100 times a day. There's very little scientific literature on the therapy, but what's there shows no benefit for MSers or others, aside from the placebo effect. Symptoms might abate for a time, but will come back despite regular dosing/stings.

For the 2% of the population with allergies to bee venom (and may not know it), the therapy can be deadly if they go into anaphylactic shock upon exposure to the venom. Also, the tendency to develop an allergy is cumulative -- you may handle 49 stings just fine, and develop a severe reaction on the 50th.

In early February, a friend of mine died after undergoing bee venom therapy. I wrote about it in my journal here on February 6th. He was allergic, didn't know it, and the practitioner he was seeing didn't have a bee sting kit available in the office. Criminal! And not worth it.

Don't go down this road.

-Karen

My grandmother also had MS. She was actually in a study when it was at first thought to bee helpful. I watched her go through pain every day as she stung herself all in the name of science. She went through all that to find out it didn't help so that we later generations of MS'ers don't have to. Please don't risk it.