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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Southern California
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Location: Southern California
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Cherie - I understand that many doctors use the McDonald criteria...but many do not. Again, I'm unaware of any "law" that says it is a "must" to fit these criteria. No one says you have to meet the McD criteria. I certainly didn't! And I've read many others who have been diagnosed (accurately) that did not meet it.
My thought is - sheesh, the woman has 30 holes in her brain...the neuro said the MRI looked like MS - but there isn't enough info based on some rule book so he wouldn't dx. Well, my life has never followed a rule book!  It doesn't sound like he has presented other possibilities to her and rather, they were just going to sit and wait for something to happen - like an exacerbation - rather than try to stave one off. I guess I don't operate under that premise.
Well, if I were a duck and it were hunting season...I certainly wouldn't sit around and wait!  And to me - 30 lesions in the brain...makes it hunting season.
Then again - I wish and pray for Rissa that it isn't MS....although, if not - what is it?? Why does she have all these lesions? Why would one sit and wait to prove/disprove something instead of then trying to find an alternative explanation while waiting?
~keri
ps/ sorry, I'm in a foul/emotional mood tonight...practically everything is upsetting me and making me burst into tears. 
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