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Reasons Taken

92 patients in the community are taking or have taken Diet.

Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Slow my MS progress 43 46%
General health 25 27%
Other 14 15%
Weight gain 5 5%
disease-related symptoms 1 1%
Don't know 1 1%

Duration

How long current patients have been taking Diet or how long patients were taking Diet before stopping.

Currently taking Diet

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
8
9
9
17
6
18

Stopped taking Diet

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0
2
0
4
Why Patients Stopped Taking Diet (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Did not seem to work 2 33% Did not seem to work: 33%
Other 2 33% Other: 33%
Personal research 1 17% Personal research: 17%
Course of treatment ended 1 17% Course of treatment ended: 17%

Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 6 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

Major 80% 4
Can't tell 20% 1

Slow my MS progress

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe 0% 0
Moderate 0% 0
Mild 17% 1
None 83% 5

Top reported side-effects include: Dietary restrictions

Summary results are based on 6 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (1 of 6)

  • jmscout
    Sensation: None
    Overall: Mild
    Cognition: moderate
    Vision: none
    Speech: none
    Swallowing: none
    Upper limb: moderate
    Walking: moderate
  • jmscout
  • by jmscout
    Sep 17, 2008
  • EfficacyMajor
  • Side-effectsNone
  • Slow my MS progress

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