She shared a special, touching message about multiple sclerosis on World MS Day.
The cause of MS is currently unknown, and there is no cure as of right now, according to the hospital, but there are treatments that can help to slow down the progression of the disease.
Some symptoms include a loss of balance, muscle spams, and a tingling feeling in a person’s arms and legs, among others — but it can be different for everyone. Dean was diagnosed nearly two decades ago after she had been feeling an “overwhelming fatigue, numbness in her thighs, and loss of sensation in the soles of her feet,” according to
“I wanted to, you know, let you know that MS really doesn’t present itself in a lot of ways,” Dean said in the video posted to Twitter.At first, she thought it was due to her demanding and busy work schedule as a journalist, but the symptoms wouldn’t go away, so she went to the doctor, who referred her to a neurologist.“I wanted to find a neurologist with a thorough knowledge of the disease and a good bedside manner, who could offer me reassurance and hope,” Dean told the outlet at the time.
“I also began reading about other people [in the public eye] who had been diagnosed with MS, such as Montel Williams, Teri Garr, Richard Cohen [Meredith Vieira’s husband] and others. It helped me to put faces to the illness and to hear about people who were not only surviving but also thriving.”“And here’s my update: went to doc’s yesterday,” she wrote. “New MRI’s will be done, a course of steroids to help with pain and more tests to see why I’m having a flare up. Feeling a bit better today.
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