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Chronic Health Conditions Discussion and Support

Downwinder

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1. Maintenance therapy can stop the autoimmune attacks

Reply to LiberalLoner (Original post)

Mon Mar 4, 2013, 03:14 PM

Mar 2013

and allow you to heal.

It is good to have a diagnosis. That helps remove some stress. Stress is as debilitating as heat.

Have been on interferon for 15 years. I can now marginally walk, talk, and see. None of which I could do at diagnosis

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Turns out I have Multiple Sclerosis, not GBS or CIDP. Well, at least I have a diagnosis now. [View all] LiberalLoner Mar 2013 OP

Maintenance therapy can stop the autoimmune attacks Downwinder Mar 2013 #1

Bad news: it's incurable. Good news: it's treatable Warpy Mar 2013 #2

Thanks u guys! It feels good to have a diagnosis finally because LiberalLoner Mar 2013 #3

You might not need the full walker, it's a PIA to deal with Warpy Mar 2013 #4

Went through that "It's all in your head bit" for twenty years. Downwinder Mar 2013 #5

I get "free" healthcare via the military, so no worries about cost. LiberalLoner Mar 2013 #10

Lost the feeling in one hand, couldn't find the hand Downwinder Mar 2013 #11

Well Said ProfessorGAC Mar 2013 #12

Good luck to you deek Mar 2013 #6

Thank you! LiberalLoner Mar 2013 #9

I am new here nana sew dear Mar 2013 #7

Thank you so much! I am a vet, was in the first Gulf War LiberalLoner Mar 2013 #8

Update: Saw neuros (team of 4) on Thursday and.. LiberalLoner Mar 2013 #13

I dignosed myself via the internet and the symptoms I was having back in '97 benld74 Apr 2013 #14

This message was self-deleted by its author ProfessorGAC Apr 2013 #15