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Throughout history, we can find examples of people getting things wrong. In 1903, a banker said, “The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty — a fad.” Science once accepted that cigarettes helped relieve stress and that germs were an idiotic concept. What we know…

There’s no denying it: Living with myasthenia gravis (MG) can make a person feel insane. One minute I’m celebrating a new physical milestone achieved, and the next I’m lamenting and grieving how much I lost when I got sick. It’s these constant emotional ups and downs that make…

“Silence is a true friend who never betrays,” Confucius once said. There is so much modern science doesn’t know about myasthenia gravis (MG). It must be taxing and frustrating for people with MG to explain the disease and its symptoms to family, friends, and others who may have…

We all like to observe others in subways, buses, or streets, and when I do it, I find myself asking, “What are they thinking about? How is their life going? Do they have the same problems as me, or are theirs worse?” I’m confident that many of you think of…

American writer William Arthur Ward is believed to have said, “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a gift and not giving it.” I’m not grateful enough for my relatively good health. I’m overweight, don’t exercise enough, and use the stress of my freelancer life…

Last year, I woke up to terrible news: One of my colleagues had passed away. Although I didn’t know her personally, I knew she’d lived with a chronic illness and was an advocate for those with her condition. Her death was sudden and unpredictable, and I felt numb and choked.

Six months can feel like forever. Using an elimination diet to detect food sensitivities can seem to last forever. Many such diets are restrictive at the start, which makes them difficult to stick with for long periods of time. But that’s sort of the point. In May, I started…

A quote attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, known as the Buddha, says, “You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.” In other words, no matter how much we feed it, anger never has a full belly. The more we feed it, the more we…

If you’ve read my diagnosis story, you know it took me a decade to find out I have myasthenia gravis (MG). But why? Didn’t I see professionals? I did. Weren’t they familiar with MG? They were. Were my symptoms unclear? Absolutely, or this journey wouldn’t have been so…

Recently I noticed that expressing gratitude results in a change in my body. It’s hard to put into words, but I feel warm and peaceful. Something is different — better. I decided to investigate this phenomenon. I wanted to know if the symptoms of myasthenia gravis (MG) are…