Her experience, while not the norm, is far from unusual, experts say.
Applegate disclosed the revelation on an episode of her podcast with Jamie Lynn Sigler, MeSsy, which centers on their lives with MS. (Sigler disclosed that she has relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis, or RRMS, in 2016.) “In January of 2021, I had numbness in my toes, and that numbness grew to all of my legs,” Applegate recalled on the podcast. “And then the pain started.”
It’s not necessarily about treatment but about knowing what you have. If you know what you have and there’s a treatment, yay. If you know what you have and there’s no treatment, okay, you can try to learn how to come to terms with that. If you don’t know what you have… 乁( •_• )ㄏ
Pick any neurodegenerative disorder. No treatment restores neurons.
People love to think diagnosis = treatment that works. Rarely is that true.
The FDA and Pharma will sell you drugs, but none of the them actually work as promised.
Again, no one cares about funding biomedical research, no one cares when Trump cut it all. Unless the treatment for these diseases is fighter jets, no other government worldwide has stepped in to fill the large gap left by the NIH illegal cuts. The world has leaned on the US to foot this bill for over 50 years, and the US had a trillion dollar pharma industry to show for it. The entire planet spends about $60B a year to research all diseases, Trump cut $38B out of that. In 2 years, the Trump administration, along with G7 apathy, has irreversibly damaged medical research. You will see some drugs approved for a few years, then nothing. So, enjoy your PEPTIDES.
With NIH funding, there will be no biotech or pharma to commercialize new treatments. Pharma stopped doing basic research decades ago, now they are basically banks. The entire industry is headed to extinction.
$60B sound like a lot of money? a fraction of a single percent of healthcare spending.
I am unclear on the reason you’re telling me this.