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Old 09-25-2017, 07:56 PM
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Default MG Diagnosis made easy (according to Yale Neuro-opthalmologist))

Watch a finger move from arm's length to your nose. Once.
Watch a finger move left, right, up down. Once.
Close your eyes. Keep them closed. Put an ice pack on the crease of one eye. Wait about two minutes. Open your eyes. If they don't look different from each other, you don't have MG.

Oh, also drive an hour and a half each way to get there, spend most of 4 hours there waiting, staring at the walls, and have a bunch of those fancy eye pictures taken and a visual field test. Have a technician do a basic 'can you read the letters' eye test, 'tell me the numbers' colorblindness test, and amsler grid. Do all that early in the four hours, so then you can sit, staring at the beige walls, for a long time before the doctor breezes in and does the extensive three tests stated at the top here.

So there you have it. Blood tests are irrelevant. Symptoms are irrelevant. Look at your thumb, follow a finger, and ice one eye then open both. So easy!!!



I give up.
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