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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Southern California
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Location: Southern California
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Okay, so this article bugged me. If I have holes showing up in my brain - I want to know - even if they don't want to officially diagnose anything.
This annoyed me:
Until then, we should not tell them that they have MS or treat them with disease-modifying therapies. For now, it's best to remember the wise advice that we 'treat the patient, not the MRI scan.'"
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Sure, some people die never knowing they had MS - and had no symptoms - it was only found out in autopsy. Fine, great for them. But then what about people who show lesions on brain scans and have no symptoms for 5 years and then suddenly become sicker and disabled - and now their brains are loaded with tons of lesions?? Progression possibly could have been stopped earlier.
Hmm, an ethics question, too. Do we tell people that it's possible they may have a disease when we don't know for sure? And then not treat them?
Then again, I'm a person who always buys warranties on big products...ya know, just in case? I guess my body/my self is a big product! 
~keri
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