Doctor explains how a misdiagnosis of multiple sclerosis happens amid Christina Applegate news
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[0:00] may come as great news, but to me it
[0:03] comes as like very like I'm back at
[0:04] square one. But
[0:07] it's hard to say that she came into my
[0:10] room [snorts] and she said, um,
[0:13] "Congratulations, you don't have MS."
[0:16] >> That's actress Christina Applegate on
[0:18] her podcast Messi today, recounting the
[0:20] moment her doctor told her she'd been
[0:21] misdiagnosed
[0:23] more than 5 years after she'd been told
[0:25] she had multiple sclerosis. MS is an
[0:27] unpredictable neurological condition
[0:29] which the body's immune system attacks
[0:31] itself. Patients can experience
[0:32] numbness, fatigue, pai