Leah88
13-12-16, 23:53
Lots of people on here help me come out of panic attacks so I'd like to offer some reassurance to others. Ms is not one of my fears so I can think a bit more logically about it. I worked in a physio dept for 5 years and saw many people with ms. Very very rarely would the disease become fatal and debilitating. There is only one pt out of dozens I could remember who ended up in a wheelchair. Things to keep in mind are
1. Treatment is becoming exponentially better since stem cell therapy/immunotherapy is out
2. Only a ridiculously small percentage end up in wheel chairs
3. Living healthily with the disease ( low calorie diets), excercise and medication can hold back the disease for a long time before relapses occur.
4. Some people don't know they even have ms until they die of old age and it shows up in an autopsy. ( a head surgeon at my hospital informed us of this during a lecture)
I'm not trying to lessen the devastation caused by people being diagnosed, and sound insensitive, just trying to imply that it is not a hopeless disease.
Now I'll go back to my cancer worries ;)
1. Treatment is becoming exponentially better since stem cell therapy/immunotherapy is out
2. Only a ridiculously small percentage end up in wheel chairs
3. Living healthily with the disease ( low calorie diets), excercise and medication can hold back the disease for a long time before relapses occur.
4. Some people don't know they even have ms until they die of old age and it shows up in an autopsy. ( a head surgeon at my hospital informed us of this during a lecture)
I'm not trying to lessen the devastation caused by people being diagnosed, and sound insensitive, just trying to imply that it is not a hopeless disease.
Now I'll go back to my cancer worries ;)