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So after a double-booking incident yesterday that caused me to not know when I'm going to see a doctor/specialist (I was rebooked in march but at the top of the cancellation list), I was called this morning to come see dr. Freedman for my consultation.
It's not 100% but he's pretty positive that I have MS. Going through my MRI pictures, he also found a lesion in my brain which they had not originally found until he looked at them. Apparently that lesion explained the dizziness and lack of balance. Fun fun. He now wants me to get a lumbar puncture and a test where they stick electrodes all over my head. Also did some baseline blood tests today.
I've now been given 2 options: treatments or clinical trial. The clinical trial is really tempting, especially with the 0$ price tag. I get MRI's, blood tests, any other fancy test, without the wait times. The only thing that causes me to not go with that option is that I have to be there weekly, monday and thursday mornings, from 8 until they don't need me anymore, and no one knows when that could be. I'm going to have to talk to my boss about that 1 and see what she says. So with the clinical, I'm very closely followed and if anything seems to go wrong or I get a tone new lesions, they remove me and put me on an actual treatment. So really, right now, it's just the time that's causing me some slight issues. Anyone here on any clinical studies instead of actual treatments???
If I decide to go the treatment route, then they're giving me the choice of what to take. Really expensive, most definately didn't expect that high but almost doesn't surprise me tho. It'll be the first time I ever need to claim any medecine on my insurance.
So yea, got plenty of paperwork to read and within a month or 2, make a decision and life goes on. Even more fun fun!!!
It's not 100% but he's pretty positive that I have MS. Going through my MRI pictures, he also found a lesion in my brain which they had not originally found until he looked at them. Apparently that lesion explained the dizziness and lack of balance. Fun fun. He now wants me to get a lumbar puncture and a test where they stick electrodes all over my head. Also did some baseline blood tests today.
I've now been given 2 options: treatments or clinical trial. The clinical trial is really tempting, especially with the 0$ price tag. I get MRI's, blood tests, any other fancy test, without the wait times. The only thing that causes me to not go with that option is that I have to be there weekly, monday and thursday mornings, from 8 until they don't need me anymore, and no one knows when that could be. I'm going to have to talk to my boss about that 1 and see what she says. So with the clinical, I'm very closely followed and if anything seems to go wrong or I get a tone new lesions, they remove me and put me on an actual treatment. So really, right now, it's just the time that's causing me some slight issues. Anyone here on any clinical studies instead of actual treatments???
If I decide to go the treatment route, then they're giving me the choice of what to take. Really expensive, most definately didn't expect that high but almost doesn't surprise me tho. It'll be the first time I ever need to claim any medecine on my insurance.
So yea, got plenty of paperwork to read and within a month or 2, make a decision and life goes on. Even more fun fun!!!