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When first diagnosed, Bobbie Junge couldn't walk or hold a pen. Today, she battles some of the most intense fire disasters in the country as a federal firefighter. "When I was first diagnosed, I was devastated," Bobbie remembers. "I had the world at my fingertips, and all of a sudden, I couldn't stand, I couldn't walk, I couldn't hold a pen. It was a very difficult situation."

But, true to her nature, she didn't give up. Instead, Bobbie fought to reclaim her way of life. When she began taking BETASERON, the idea of injecting herself with a needle made her somewhat apprehensive. However, with the small needle that is used to administer BETASERON, she found the injections to be painless. After the first week of administering BETASERON, she found there was no burning, no irritation, and no side effects of any kind. "The apprehension turned into confidence, and with that attitude, you know there isn't anything you can't handle!" She says that BETASERON "still allows me to live life to the fullest....Currently, there are no other drugs or therapies on the market with BETASERON's proven statistics. Regardless of who conducts the study, the numbers don't lie."

This story represents the experience of one patient. Not all patients will have a similar experience.

Brett Massingham lives for a challenge. Through sheer hard work and relentless determination, Brett realized one of his lifelong dreams when he qualified for and played in a PGA Tour event in 2002. But even though it was one of his proudest moments, it was a small feat compared to the challenge he confronted almost 10 years ago when symptoms of MS took over his body. "That was a scary time," recalls Brett. About eight months after his diagnosis, a new neurologist put Brett on BETASERON. The doctor told Brett that he thought he would have a good chance for success on the drug. And Brett hasn't looked back since. "I had very minimal side effects in the beginning and I was playing golf a couple of months after I started treatment," says Brett. "Where I was, I couldn't have walked let alone hit a golf ball. There's no question in my mind that BETASERON helped make the difference for me."

This story represents the experience of one patient. Not all patients will have a similar experience.

"When I was diagnosed, I was completely devastated," recalls Amelia Davis, a professional documentary photographer. When the left side of her body went numb from head to toe and she experienced blindness in one eye, her doctor diagnosed her with relapsing remitting MS and immediately put her on BETASERON. Although she struggled with flu-like symptoms as she adjusted to therapy, she has not had a relapse since she began treatment seven years ago. "As a photographer, I rely on my eyes and hands to show the world what I see—so without that I thought my career and my life were over," remembers Amelia. "But BETASERON changed that."

This story represents the experience of one patient. Not all patients will have a similar experience.

After living with MS for more than six years, Erin Morrow is calling on a dozen or so men and women in her support group to help her develop a guidebook for young people with MS. "My goal is to create a real-life book with facts, stories of how my friends and I have dealt with having MS in our 20s and 30s, and helpful tidbits to get people constructively on their way to living a healthy life even with this disease," explains the 24-year-old Nashville native. Shortly before she was diagnosed with MS, Erin was living the life of a normal college freshman. But symptoms such as numbness and vision problems began to manifest. When an eye doctor said he couldn't fix her vision and recommended she see a neurologist, her mom—who is a nurse—started to suspect that Erin might have MS. By the end of the week, an MRI and a lumbar puncture had confirmed their fears. Erin started taking BETASERON toward the end of her junior year of college—and she has been on it ever since. For the first year and a half on the treatment, she continued to have some problems, but since then all her symptoms and lesions have gone. "The coolest thing about being on BETASERON is that I now have zero active lesions on my brain and spinal cord," exclaims Erin.

This story represents the experience of one patient. Not all patients will have a similar experience.