Neurologist Richard Lewis, MD, shares how taking MG seriously while maintaining balance may help patients live more fully day to day.
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You don’t want your disease to take over your life, but you do need to take your disease seriously so it doesn’t take over your life.
There’s a point in time where it becomes a major part of your life, but I guarantee you that if you do that and take it seriously, at some point you’ll be on a treatment where 90% of your days will be spent without feeling like you have a disease.
And that’s where that minimal manifestations come in. But myasthenia is, is one of the diseases I will deal with. It’s one of the best because people really do go as if life goes on normally, even though the disease is not eradicated. It is incredibly well controlled in most patients.
