High Schoolers Ask Questions About MS: You Help Me Answer!

I’ve had the opportunity and the pleasure to interview some of the most important and knowledgeable people in the multiple sclerosis world.  Many were doctors and researchers who are looking for a cause and cure to this disease.  Others were those living with the disease. On occasion, I’ve even been interviewed myself.  For one series of blogs we had you “interview” me. Well, I’ve been asked for another interview, and I wanted all of us to get in on the action. A couple of high school students in America reached out with some questions about the disease itself, living with MS, and my reaction to this stupid thing.  I thought I’d pass along the questions so that these kids can get some extra credit and their classmates can get a bit of good information. Here are the questions they posed – good and insightful ones, I think: 1. What made you think that you had MS? 2. Does it run in your family? 3. What triggers most of your attacks? 4. How long do your episodes usually last? What was your longest? 5. What were the main symptoms that occurred before you were diagnosed? 6. Do you get neurological test done frequently? If so, What test do you mostly have done? 7. Do you use any medications to help with your symptoms? 8. Which course of MS do you have: Relapsing- remitting, Primary- progressive, secondary- progressing or progressive relapsing? 9. Everywhere I looked all said more females tend to get it than males, so were you surprised when you found out you got i...
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