OK, you’ve been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. What happens now?  Multiple Sclerosis prognosis is fairly predictable. If you are going to seek some type of treatment, that is the good news. The first thing you should do is begin planning your treatment. To ignore the diagnosis would be naïve. MS is definitely a progressive disease. It is rare for patients with MS not to progress consistently to disability over time if they do nothing. The progression rate used to be a source of much controversy and debate, but recent studies over the last decade all come to the same general consensus: a relapsing course of MS will be followed by a chronic progression in at least 80% of patients in 20 years or less. And while the speed at which this happens varies in individual patients, the ultimate certainty of it doesn’t. And in most cases the disease follows a …