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Originally Posted by StephC
Every thing I have read about MG says "with treatment most people can lead relatively normal life" however the more I read and Live with this illness I think normal life isn't the normal I had before MG got so bad. I used to ride my bicycle 10 miles, go horseback riding for 6 hours. Will I ever be able to do those things again?
I am sole practitioner lawyer and had very busy practice working about 40-50 hours per week. I stopped taking new cases about 2 months ago. Will I ever be able to go back to 40-50 hour work weeks ?
I have started therapeutic trial of mestinon and seem to be responding meaning I feel like I can function but even so only couple hours work before I am drained whereas before I was workaholic.
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When you have MG (or any other chronic illness for that matter), you can either go into remission or not. If you are not in remission you can still have a good control of your illness with minimal symptoms or not achieve such control.
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Will I ever be able to go back to 40-50 hour work weeks ?
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I do not think anyone can give you an answer to your question at this early stage of your illness, when it seems that you have not started to receive any treatment (other than symptomatic treatment which can control the symptoms but will not lead to remission).
If with proper treatment you will have remission/good control of your illness it is likely that you will be able to resume most of your work schedule. If not, you will probably have to make proper adjustments.