Hi. Guys
First ,English isn't my first language, so please excuse any mistakes.
About my Symptoms
I'm 24yo male from Thailand (what are the odd right?). I'm perfectly healthy and love doing many outdoor activities such as tennis , mountain climbing, running
About 2 weeks ago I have experience about 50% blurred vision on my left eye.
So i went to have my eyes check-up and doctors said there is nothing wrong with my eyes. And suggested me to re-check with neuro doctor.
My neuro take the MRI of my brain and spine. Turn out that my spine was clear but ,there is about 10 old lesions and 1 active attack in my brain that doctor think its cause my eye symptom. (I never experience any symptom before)
Even my symptom are pretty mild my neuro suggest me to take 5 doses of steroid at the hospital and now im on 2nd day of oral steroid at home. My eye still blur but progress to be better at ranging 50-80% of my normal vision. (sometime its better sometime it go back to 50% i dont know why)
Last week I met another 2 neuro doctors, who is MS specialist in Thailand (not many of them available here.
)
Both of them said from my MRI and all the blood test I had, there is a high chance that i have MS but to officially comfirm it I have to wait for another attack to occur.
I'm really in depress.
I discuss on the medication with my neuro right away. She would like to put me into Gilenya saying that its the most reliable drug available here is Thailand. (We only have inteferon , copaxone and gilenya )
I'm really worry both about side effect of the dmd drug and my future
Please ,I need you guys advice on this
1. Should I take Gilenya?
- the research is quite promising
- its quite expensive here in Thailand about 2300$ monthly with no social insurance or co-pay available here. I think I can afford it without risking my financial status for like 10-20 years but , if I have to take this drug for my entire life its may be too much to handle financially.
- MS scared me. Now i live quite normal healthy life with symptom free so, its a hard decision to take drug (and its side effect) while you feel perfectly fine. But im also afraid one day MS will attack me and I won't be the same again. What should i do?
Start gilenya now or hold it?
2.LDN?
-I really want to try it. Some said it is good but not working for some. With no real research on this drug on slow progression of MS. Is it worth a try?
Sorry for the long essay with bad bad english.
One last thing, I know you guys maybe answer this question a hundred of times before but
Can i live a normal life?
I mean without disabilities
its so many dream outthere that I want to fullfill.
I really need you guys support on this.
We have no community here in Thailand and I have absolutely noone to talk to.
Thanks god, I found this community.
First ,English isn't my first language, so please excuse any mistakes.

About my Symptoms
I'm 24yo male from Thailand (what are the odd right?). I'm perfectly healthy and love doing many outdoor activities such as tennis , mountain climbing, running
About 2 weeks ago I have experience about 50% blurred vision on my left eye.
So i went to have my eyes check-up and doctors said there is nothing wrong with my eyes. And suggested me to re-check with neuro doctor.
My neuro take the MRI of my brain and spine. Turn out that my spine was clear but ,there is about 10 old lesions and 1 active attack in my brain that doctor think its cause my eye symptom. (I never experience any symptom before)
Even my symptom are pretty mild my neuro suggest me to take 5 doses of steroid at the hospital and now im on 2nd day of oral steroid at home. My eye still blur but progress to be better at ranging 50-80% of my normal vision. (sometime its better sometime it go back to 50% i dont know why)
Last week I met another 2 neuro doctors, who is MS specialist in Thailand (not many of them available here.

Both of them said from my MRI and all the blood test I had, there is a high chance that i have MS but to officially comfirm it I have to wait for another attack to occur.
I'm really in depress.
I discuss on the medication with my neuro right away. She would like to put me into Gilenya saying that its the most reliable drug available here is Thailand. (We only have inteferon , copaxone and gilenya )
I'm really worry both about side effect of the dmd drug and my future
Please ,I need you guys advice on this
1. Should I take Gilenya?
- the research is quite promising
- its quite expensive here in Thailand about 2300$ monthly with no social insurance or co-pay available here. I think I can afford it without risking my financial status for like 10-20 years but , if I have to take this drug for my entire life its may be too much to handle financially.
- MS scared me. Now i live quite normal healthy life with symptom free so, its a hard decision to take drug (and its side effect) while you feel perfectly fine. But im also afraid one day MS will attack me and I won't be the same again. What should i do?
Start gilenya now or hold it?
2.LDN?
-I really want to try it. Some said it is good but not working for some. With no real research on this drug on slow progression of MS. Is it worth a try?
Sorry for the long essay with bad bad english.
One last thing, I know you guys maybe answer this question a hundred of times before but
Can i live a normal life?
I mean without disabilities
its so many dream outthere that I want to fullfill.
I really need you guys support on this.
We have no community here in Thailand and I have absolutely noone to talk to.
Thanks god, I found this community.