I don't usually post here, but I do read these posts.

I've been holding off doing the shots for 9 years and I still get around albiet
with a cane. According to the most recent issue of NMSS's publication "Inside
MS" 50% of people with MS are not on the ABC or R. I have many questions that go
unanswered by mainstream medicine.

Also, the drug companies don't make any claim about preventing further
progression. They only claim that it may help delay progression of disability
and frequency of attacks in RRMS.
I realize this is an extremely controvercial subject, but not all of us buy into
the drug companies (and that doesn't make us bad people). I have a 9 year
history of some seriously negative situations with the medical profession and my
MS actually being made worse after I received a tetanus shot. Of course, no
doctor wants to acknowledge this. And they don't! I've just gone through the
legal process.

I know that science can do much better if the drug companies didn't have their
mighty dollar driven agenda. Too little research makes it pretty obvious.
More dollars go into one football game than has gone into MS research in the
past 56 years! Why is that? I feel like we're just cash cows.

I know this post opens me up for all kinds of critical comments. But believe
me, I can take it. I have a 10 page word document, entitled, "Finding Hope in
the Truth", that I wrote last year that was printed in two publications. As a
result, I was a guest speaker at an MS support group this past February. There
was one person who walked out before I had finished. That person was an MD. He
could not handle that there was someone actually going against the grain. The
support group leader was very pleased that I had rattled his chains and actually
struck a nerve.

We need better, folks, lots better. Let's call it like it is.
I am not trying to offend anyone here, but there are people like me who have a
totally different view of "treatment" and my view counts just as much regardless
of what any MD has to say.