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Laurie Budgar

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As seen in: Bezzy MS, MSN, MSN Canada, Aol, Medical News Today, Flipboard, Reader's Digest (U.S.), The Family Handyman, The Healthy, Sélection Reader's Digest, Reader's Digest (Australia)
Editor/writer in health & biz. Assigning for BezzyMS and BezzyIBD. Former speech-language pathologist, general language geek. Obsessed with genealogy.
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When MS Changes Our Ability to Work

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By Laurie Budgar, Heidi Moawad
| Bezzy MS
Multiple sclerosis symptoms can make it difficult or stressful for some people to continue working — and this can affect your sense of identity. We asked Bezzy MS readers about their experiences. Raise your hand if you had your first job as a teenager. Maybe you were even younger and babysat, mowed lawns, or delivered newspapers as a tween. Work has long been part of U.S. culture.
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Can Some People Safely Stop Taking Their MS Medications?

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By Laurie Budgar, Heidi Moawad
| Bezzy MS
Research suggests that some older adults with stable multiple sclerosis may not need a disease-modifying therapy. Bezzy MS readers share their insights into how stopping their DMTs has affected them. Disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) have drastically improved the lives of millions of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) since they were introduced in the 1990s. Now, with nearly 30 approved DMTs available, people with MS can treat their disease with a pill, an injection, or an infusion.
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How Bezzy MS Readers Experience DMT Side Effects

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By Laurie Budgar, Heidi Moawad
| Bezzy MS
With dozens of disease-modifying therapies now available for multiple sclerosis, people often want to know more about how the side effects compare. Here, Bezzy MS readers share their insights. Multiple sclerosis (MS) was a disease without a cure or treatment for many decades. Even in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) started to become available, people didn’t have a lot of choices regarding which treatment to try.
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