Posted by: The Sumaira Foundation in MOG, Patient.e, Voices of NMO
Liz has had NMO for 25 years now. She’s only known it for ten… Since she’d had migraines throughout her childhood, Liz and her mother didn’t think too much of it when, at age 11, the “migraine” around her left eye was so bad that she thought she needed glasses. But obligingly, her mother […]
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My name is Brian Weinshenker and I am a neurologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. I established a career as an MS specialist and have had an interest in conditions that mimic MS and issues relating to the accuracy of MS diagnosis. Neurologists have no specific tests for MS; a diagnosis is established […]
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On a warm February evening at the University of Miami, I sat in my Music Business lecture and wondered from where this strange soreness had come. There was a lingering discomfort each time I moved my left eye from side to side or up and down. My eyes had never been an issue and this […]
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I was an on-call intern late one night at the Johns Hopkins Hospital when I met a young woman who presented with weakness and pain in her legs. This was her third admission to the hospital in the past 6 months despite her doctor’s best effort to treat her for multiple sclerosis (MS). “I don’t […]
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