Hello Willow and welcome to NeuroTalk
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Statistically, is one more successful than the other?
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Unfortunately, there is no answer to your question
It's very hard, if not impossible to find any kind of comparison to those who never used a DMD vs those who did. This disease is a crapshoot with no guarantees.
MS IS a progressive disease. The DMDs are to
hopefully slow the progression, but again, no guarantee. Some do well on DMDs, some do not.
What I think is more important is how YOU feel about taking a DMD. Could you live with yourself IF you didn't take a DMD a became worse, would you have regrets? If that is the case you have answered your own question...Take a DMD.
There is the other side: You could decide to not take a DMD and have very little progression. Like I said...It's a crapshoot.
I was diagnosed at the age of 24 (1985) with symptoms that go back to childhood. There were no DMDs when I was diagnosed. The first DMD, Betaseron, became available to the general MS population in 1993...by lottery. I had a lottery number but as the time came close I decided not to use Betaseron. To this day, 27 years after diagnosis, I have not used a DMD.
A recent cervical spine MRI as well as a visit to my neuro confirmed what I had suspected...I have had no progression in several years, cervical spine MRI has improved and I have a very low EDSS.
That's MY story. However, I do not advocate the use or non-use of a DMD.
Best wishes in whatever you decide
