Here is my response for you. Remember you asked for it!

In about 85% of MS folks the 10 year rule applies (taking a Disease Modifying Medication may extend this for many years)

MS is a two-stage disease, with initial attacks of inflammatory demyelination, which damages myelin, followed approximately 10 years later by a slow, progressive neurdegenerative phase marked by loss of axons and nerve cells.

The results of this is noted by loss of the ability to walk. Some MS folks do enter this 2nd phase directly.

The final results is that in about 45 years we end up with having some real nasty ODD-D MS folks - ODD Old Demented Deranged folks with BIG Disability ratings in wheelchairs.

So cheer up things WILL get worse.

Some may want to explore what can be done to lower the excess Glutamate which our own diseased bodies produce that does this bad stuff to our axons and nerves. This is a pure "damage control" approach.

Of course if you have the cure for MS this would not be necessary.

jackD