I'm all for doing what you feel is right for you but imvho I would not be comfortable stopping MS medication unless I had tried all of them and nothing was tolerable, especially for someone so young.

Maybe it is because I'm a nurse also and have seen so many horrible cases of MS but I have to side with your Mom and would be terrified if my daughter stopped one without trying something else.

Once the damage is done there often very little that can be done to repair it which frightens me and motivates me to take my Copaxone. I wish you all the best and perhaps you could seek a second physician's opinion?