As to your original post, it is true that the MS labels were devised by doctors wanting to place 'like afflicted' subjects into groups for research study. With the possible (or probable, depending on who you listen to) exception of PPMS, the labels don't indicate different diseases. Nor do they represent different sequential stages of MS. They simply represent the course MS happens to be taking in a particular individual at a given time.

Your movement from one 'label' to the next is not inevitable, nor is it even remotely predictable. As more and more people are diagnosed, the MS labels are falling more and more into question, which is fine with the people who came up with them the first place.

My favorite quote: labels are for FOOD. Not people.

Regarding this...

...I don't personally find it condescending, I find it indicative of the fact you're not being particularly objective (not as objective as you seem to want to appear, anyway). Like many here, I wish you good health. Also like many here, I'm reasonably - intelligently - critical of anything being touted as a cure. What you've discovered is what works for you, what works for some other people, and what you really need to believe in right now. Is it worth exploring? Testing? Questioning? Absolutely! Let the process continue - but right now it's a far cry from a cure.