Big Pharma and their greed IS the reason why other treatments are being kept from us. If it can't be patent and controlled by them they, along with their paid-for government lackeys, keep it from coming to the market. They make people suffer and die. All for profits. They are one of the most evil industries around. All people involved in this tragedy ought to be spending the rest of their lives behind bars.

@A MyMSTeam Member

I didn't say "that's forcing you to seek non proven treatments"
You've decided to ignore the other half of that sentence to suit your purpose.
Tbh I suspect you could happily have an argument with yourself, believe what you want, rant what you want.
That's just what your posts sound like........a rant.
Feel free to continue the keyboard warrior stuff now, I ain't listening.

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A MyMSTea...

If you want to be considerably poorer and in exactly the same position as before then yeah, go and get treated at one of these places.
Just because you don't agree with how big pharma operates doesn't mean there's some big conspiracy that's forcing you to seek non proven treatments abroad.
If you want to blame anyone then it should probably be your government and how health services in the US are operated.
As a UK citizen I have my meds supplied for free by the NHS. As an American you are controlled by insurance companies and are effectively being medicated by a man in a suit, rather than a medical professional. That's not big pharma's fault.

Lmao, I hope you have your tin foil hat on. Whether in panama, russia or what ever "cheap" option you go to ,a lot of the therapies/treatments were invented in the USA, yes with those big evil doers "big pharma" and imagine as a business they needed to recover costs (and make money) so they can keep developing new treatments/drugs and pay those talented people to come up with new drugs,just look at how many new and better drugs have come along for MS in the past 20 years. I know they have improved a lot in the twenty years I have had MS. I do agree they could be a bit less profit hungry but they only have 20 years to make money from a drug. The cost of safety and efficacy trials alone runs into the hundreds of millions of dollars. A patent lasts for 20 years from the date on which the patent application is filed.
And as for the "stem cell" type treatments no one has recorded a long lasting positive outcome so far,(most slowly revert over 3 ish years or so).

Medical tourism is the symptom of an absolutely corrupt "healthcare" system.