Jasmine Nathan, an MG patient advocate, reflects on why starting treatment early can help preserve control, slow symptom progression, and support a more balanced approach to living with MG.
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The benefits of early treatment are being able to understand yourself a lot more.
You definitely don’t ever want your symptoms to get worse because if it gets worse, you have no control over it after that.
Sometimes it doesn’t come back from that. So you want to have as much control as you can.
Try to plan as much as you can, but also don’t hurt yourself trying to plan it.
Just take it one day at a time and remember that this is all a journey. You’re one person. It’ll be OK.