For Christina Applegate, being told she didn’t have multiple sclerosis (MS) felt like being ‘back at square one’.
The actress, 54, had already spent five years battling debilitating symptoms that left her needing to use a wheelchair and cane.
‘[My doctor] came into my room and said, “congratulations, you don’t have MS,”‘ she recalled on a podcast this week.
‘I was, like, not happy at all… you don’t get misdiagnosed and then all of a sudden, I’m better. I haven’t gotten better. If anything, I’ve gotten worse.’
As startling as it is, her experience is far from unusual. Data suggests many patients are diagnosed
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