Multiple sclerosis is a death sentence
“Many people with MS live full, active lives,” says Nancy L. Sicotte, M.D., director of the Multiple Sclerosis Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. “We think of it as a chronic disease that can be managed, but there are a small percentage of people with severe MS who will die from complications.”
Patients need a wheelchair
“When patients come in after their diagnosis, they are usually devastated because they think it means they will be in a wheelchair in five years, but this is simply not true,” Dr. Sicotte says. So, if you’re living with MS it doesn’t mean that you absolutely need a wheelchair.
