I do not want to diminish the experiences of those of you who have already walked this path, but I don't want to just give up on a chance to slow this disease either. I have to balance some sense of hope with the reality of how badly some of these meds have impacted people. It doesn't seem like an easy task.

I think my strategy is going to be something along the lines of trying everything I can that doesn't have very serious risk attached. I'm thinking Swank or another ms diet, supplements, exercise, other lifestyle changes, and the less dangerous meds. I definitely don't have all of this fleshed out in my head yet.

Like I said, the one thing I like about BG-12 is that it has been in use for a long time. Whether it helps MS long term or not is still an unknown in my mind, trials or not. But I think we have a realistic idea of the bad that comes with BG-12, and it looks much less bad than the other DMDs.