Why Isn Everyone With MS on Treatment?
Why Isn’t Everyone With MS on Treatment? Monday March 3, 2008 #spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)I pulled this article up to take a look at it, mostly because I am a little conflicted about MS treatment at the moment. On one hand, look how far we’ve come – it’s just in the last 20 years that any type of disease-modifying therapy is available at all for MS. Even though the treatments are not perfect, many of us are so very, very lucky to have them. On the other hand, these treatments are not perfect. They don’t help everyone. They have side effects. And, I am so sick of injecting myself that I could scream (and do, sometimes). When I first wrote this article, in May 2007, I was appalled and upset that only 38% of people with MS visiting neurologists and 8% of people with MS seeing general practitioners were on disease-modifying therapy. I’ve wised up a little since then. I still think these numbers
