Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Knowledge is the single most important weapon you will ever have in your MS-fighting arsenal. It is the one thing you can and should pursue immediately, whether the diagnosis is official or just suspected.
Reaching that diagnosis may take some time because early symptoms can be vague, and th...
Life is full of cost-benefit ratios which affect our decisions and choices. Having MS and our choices in relation to that are not immune from the same cost-benefit decisions.
There is little cost in seeking knowledge but there is great benefit to having gained that knowledge. Just look at what is available here at HealthCentral or elsewhere on the Internet. Cost: computer access. Benefit: health literacy.
Greater knowledge leads to more-informed decision making. Knowledge is Power!!
You girls have done it again! You are so right; finding out early is the key. That way you just may be able to catch the little monster before he can do a lot of damage. Now do not get me wrong he is going to do some damage, it is just that the meds can lessen the blow! MS is so hard to DX it mimics so many other things, it easily can be called the great deceiver. It acts like this, when it really is that, and so on and so forth. But once you finally find out then you can plan your stratagory of attack. Getting there is the problem. MS is funny like that! We are getting there!