MS has taken so much from me it has me wondering where I am. My Drs. gave my symptoms names such as dysphasia, diplopia, dysarthria and ataxia. I am in no way medical so these terms don’t mean much to me so Google was called upon. Not Dr Google,as that can be dangerous. I now know that dysphasia is when you have swallowing issues, diplopia is double vision, dysarthria is speech issues and ataxia can be poor gait or come across as general clumsiness. There exists treatments for most things that can provide assistance but not cure them, so we find our own ways to deal with them. Is it not obvious to the medical fraternity that we don’t know what these medical terms mean in the same way as if an astrophysicist was to try and explain propulsion. It would be so beneficial to us to be told that dysarthria is the “posh” name for any speech issue we could experience and my poor balance and gait is called ataxia, or as the Dr puts it “I am ataxic”. It’s hard enough living with (not suffering) this without trying to understand medical terms. We might not recognise you or remember your name but that can be Cogfog (cloudiness of cognition) or you are just not memorable, not that I am stupid.