Most patients will have to use some combination of Multiple Sclerosis Medications during the course of their life. Depending on the progression of your disease, the relapse frequency you are experiencing, and the symptoms that trouble you the most, the MS medications you decide to use will fall into one of three main categories. And over the course of your battle with this debilitating disease, you will likely go back and forth between drugs in the different categories before you find a combination that works best for you.  While new MS medications are being researched and even approved regularly, they will still likely fall into one of these categories until a cure is finally found.

The goal of some MS medications is to reduce the frequency of relapses or shorten the duration of the relapse it already underway

Some drugs are used to control a relapse after it …