Aysen Slack, 65 and from Eastbourne, chose to wage privately for the pills erstwhile she heard astir them.
She said fampridine was "working good for me" but came astatine a "significant disbursal and I could not support doing that forever" truthful she had to stop.
Slack said it was "great news" the cause was coming to the NHS and she "would decidedly similar to try" again.
"My mobility has decreased a batch and adjacent successful my level I person to usage sticks now," she said, "it would marque a immense quality to my beingness if I were capable to amended my walking."
More than 120,000 radical unrecorded with MS successful England. However, lone astir 5,000 radical a twelvemonth volition beryllium eligible - based connected the grade of their walking difficulties.
Patients volition effort the medicine for up to a period and lone those showing "clear benefit" volition beryllium capable to proceed taking it.
Prof Frankie Swords, the NHS nationalist aesculapian director, said: "Walking difficulties tin person a immense interaction connected the state and independency of radical with MS, truthful this signal-boosting pill could beryllium life-changing for thousands of patients.
"Even a humble betterment could mean getting astir the location much easily, going retired with greater assurance and surviving much independently."
Ceri Smith, from the MS Society, said they were "delighted" by the quality arsenic the cause could beryllium "life-changing" for many, allowing radical to "live much independently oregon enactment successful employment".
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