Well, I certainly hope they wouldn't use it as any sort of decisive test. Maybe I'm naive and overly optimistic to think that a doctor would get the difference between a diagnostic test and a screening test? This one is clearly identified as a screening test.

When I see the neurologist, he does all sorts of tests on me (you know the drill): push on my hand; do you feel this pin prick?; look up; count to fifty; walk on your toes, walk on your heels; that sort of thing. If I pass these tests, it doesn't rule out MG. But if I fail one of them, it indicates a direction that needs to be pursued. That's where I would hope this new blinking test fits in. I certainly hope it's not abused as more "evidence" against those of us whose symptoms aren't typical.

This test would have done me some good. I have eye symptoms, but they're so subtle that it took a specialist in occular MG to notice them. My apparent lack of eye symptoms was a big strike against my diagnosis.

Abby