Came back from the neurologist's today. He was comparing the brain scan I had after my first attack over a year ago with another brain scan I had last month. There are two new lesions on my brain despite me making really strict lifestyle changes (no meat, no dairy, no cooked oils, whole foods, making sure I get enough exposure to sunlight etc). I sort of expected but I still hoped there would be nothing new.
He's recommending that I start on disease modifying drugs. Trouble is that drugs have side effects and I don't know how they will affect me. I will probably be on them for life.
Secondly, I feel fine (except for the odd cold patch on my leg). I think I lapsed when I made a mistake and ate some cafe-bought soup with milk in it by accident without checking the ingredients. I also had a very stressful spring (moving house, writing a paper etc). Otherwise I feel that I have a good chance of reducing progression with lifestyle changes alone. But it's risky.
Problem is that once lesions on the brain form, they don't go away again. Eventually more of them just appear until one day you get one that permanently. robs you of something. Like for example I will never get full sensation back in my fingers after my main attack last year despite everything else coming back to me.
So I have a decision to make. Do I go by how I feel? Or do I go with evidence obtained by impartial experts with experience in these situations?
I'm going with the latter because I only have one life. I don't want to waste it and I want to live to my fullest potential rather than be robbed of my potential, whether it's by an auto-immune disease or a behaviour altering meme parasite.
My feelings are missing critical information.
He's recommending that I start on disease modifying drugs. Trouble is that drugs have side effects and I don't know how they will affect me. I will probably be on them for life.
Secondly, I feel fine (except for the odd cold patch on my leg). I think I lapsed when I made a mistake and ate some cafe-bought soup with milk in it by accident without checking the ingredients. I also had a very stressful spring (moving house, writing a paper etc). Otherwise I feel that I have a good chance of reducing progression with lifestyle changes alone. But it's risky.
Problem is that once lesions on the brain form, they don't go away again. Eventually more of them just appear until one day you get one that permanently. robs you of something. Like for example I will never get full sensation back in my fingers after my main attack last year despite everything else coming back to me.
So I have a decision to make. Do I go by how I feel? Or do I go with evidence obtained by impartial experts with experience in these situations?
I'm going with the latter because I only have one life. I don't want to waste it and I want to live to my fullest potential rather than be robbed of my potential, whether it's by an auto-immune disease or a behaviour altering meme parasite.
My feelings are missing critical information.
