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My neurologist thinks that the white matter lesions on my mri and my symptoms are caused by ms. what is the general prognosis of ms for a 20 year old?
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Difficult to say: Prognosis is individual. Each person's disease course can be different and depends on the frequency of relapses, the extent to which one returns to baseline, the response to medications, and other biomarkers.
Answered 5/25/2016
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