Geo
Senior member
- Joined
- Aug 24, 2007
- Messages
- 500
- Reason
- DX UMND/PLS
- Diagnosis
- 12/2001
- Country
- US
- State
- Florida
- City
- Ruskin
iF ONE READS ALL THESE POSTS ABOUT BEING DIAGNOSED WITH PLS. AND FINDING SO MANY DIFFERENT SYMPTOMS ,SOME WITH FAST PROGRESSION SOME WITH SLOW ,SOME WITH LOCALIZED IN ONE AREA SOME WITH MULTIPLE AREAS . BUT WITH FEW WITH EXACTLY THE SAME ,THIS WOULD LEAD ONE TO SAY ,WHEN DIAGNOSING AND NONE FIT IN THAT PERVERBIAL BOX . ONE HAS TO LOOK OUTSIDE THE BOX . IN ORDER TO FIND OUT WHAT A PATIENT HAS YOU FIRST HAVE TO FIT THEM INTO A BOX THAT THEY FIT IN . ANOTHER WORDS ,IF A PERSON HAS ARTHRITIS THEY HAVE SPECIFIC SYMPTOMS SPECIFIC TO ARTHRITIS . NOW WE TAKE LETS SAY 400 PATIENTS AND NOT TOO MANY HAVE EXACTLY THE SAME SYMPTOMS . SO WE TAKE THE ONES WHO HAVE THE SAME SYMPTOMS ,PUT THEM INTO A CATEGORY AND LOOK FOR A DISEASE WHICH FITS THAT CATEGORY . SINCE NOT MUCH HAS BEEN DONE IN THE FIELD OF NEUROLOGY AND NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES ,THERES VERY LITTLE KNOWLEDGE BASE TO DRAW FROM . SO YOU END UP WITH ALOT OF CONFUSING SYMPTOMS WHICH DONT FIT INTO A SPECIFIC BOX .SO THE PATIENT UNLUCKY ENOUGH TO GET ONE OF THESE . IS IN LIMBO AND YOU GET ONE DOC. SAYING ITS ALL IN YOUR MIND AND ANOTHER SAYING YOU'LL BE DEAD IN 2 YEARS AND NONE REALLY KNOWING FOR SURE . THE BRAIN IS A VERY COMPLEX MACHINE WHICH NOT MANY HAVE A GRASP ON YET . THE ONE OR FEW PROFESSIONALS THAT ARE WILLING TO THINK OUT OF THE BOX WILL COME UP WITH THE SOLUTION . GEO