I'm 5 months post the first treatment, all my symptoms have remitted, I've had no new relapses and my life is back to normal. There are no side effects of the treatment that scared me as much as losing my sight and ability to walk which MS was doing to me before treatment. No question I would chose Lemtrada first time every time. (which I did) And if I had to do it every year for the rest of my life to keep MS at bay then I happily would xx

I was given the "too new" and "too risky" impression to start with. It's not new, it's actually an old, re-purposed drug with trials going back a number of years I can't accurately remember right now so I'm not going to guess. I was also comparing the risks to how I am now, not how I'm likely to be doing in a decade or two. That's the comparison it's important to make. I was lucky enough to visit Shift before I made my decision and found some very useful resources. The turning point for me was watching the first half of this MS Society talk on DMTs (second half is q&a) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E01Yjr7xrtg I've since spent time watching the MS Reporter videos, reading the Barts MS blog, and generally stuffing as much information into my brain as I can (no wonder it's rebelling!)...too new or too risky for me? No. So much "NO" that it makes me angry I ever had cause to think so.