Hi everyone. I have a friend that was very recntly diagnosed with MS based on a bout of optic neuritis and an MRI that showed a few inactive lesions and one active one. Since I heard the news, I've been doing some reading up, but there are still a lot of questions that I have.

First of all, my friend is female, 27 years old and she had some double vision about a year ago that her physician considers to be probably her first episode. Her doctor put her immediatley on betaseron injections, and from what I have heard from her, he didn't really present her with other options. I haven't really seen too many people talking about betaseron. Anybody have experience with it and how it worked for them, expecially anyone that took it newly diagnosed? Anyone have any recommendations for treatment for someone newly diagnosed that doesn't know how their MS will really be affecting them?
Does anybody have anything that they regret doing or not doing when they were first diagnosed or that they would change if they could go back and do so?