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Our Treatment Stories

Many people who have the choice to take treatment say their decision is complicated.

Deciding whether you want to treat your MS, or how, can depend on many factors. It’s as individual as you are. Our Treatment Stories are honest accounts from people with MS about how they made a decision about treatment.

They're presented as an interactive video. There are audio described versions of these videos.

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Disease modifying treatment (DMT) decision tool

There's a wide range of DMTs for MS available on the NHS. Each has a different combination of benefits and risks.

Use our tool to explore your DMT options and prepare for conversations with health professionals.

Use our DMT decision tool

Making your treatment decision

Explore disease modifying therapies (DMTs)

There's a number of DMTs you can take for relapsing MS. And some for people with active progressive MS.

And if you’re on a DMT that isn’t working for you, there’s probably another one that will work better.

Find out more about DMTs

Getting treatment

You have the right to ask about getting treatment for your MS.

This is true no matter what kind of MS you have - or how long you’ve had it.

Read about getting treatment for MS

Treating progressive MS

Although there are no DMTs available for non-active progressive MS yet, there are other ways to manage your condition.

Find out about symptom treatments and the latest research.

Find out about treating progressive MS

Pregnancy and MS treatments

Many people are diagnosed with MS when they might be thinking about starting a family.

MS shouldn't stop you having a baby.

Find out more about pregnancy and MS

Planning your appointment

When you see your specialist it’s easy to forget questions that were on your mind.

Take our checklist to your next appointment to help you talk through what you want and how to get it.

Use our treatments checklist

Find local support

Our local support volunteers are here to help you to investigate your treatment options.

You can also get in touch with our MS Helpline team who'll be happy to help you explore your options.

Find support near you

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Tamla tried different treatments

I got my first MS symptoms aged 16 on a school trip to France. They gave me a ‘probable’ diagnosis because of my age, so I wasn’t offered any treatment at the time.

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My name is Trevor and I'm from Croydon in South-East London. Five years before I got MS I was a company director for a busy landscaping company.

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I was diagnosed with MS in 2007. Before I was diagnosed, I had a ‘normal’ life as a student. I went out partying all the time… and studied of course.

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Share your story

Just like MS, every MS story is unique.

We'd love to hear about your MS stories, from diagnosis to how you told loved ones and employers. Maybe you have found an interesting way to manage your symptoms or want to tell us about the challenges you have faced?

We're always on the look out for stories about life with MS to share with the community. So get in touch.

Share your MS story with this form