They are THE treatment for TM, but that doesn't mean there is necessarily a
benefit from the treatment. It just means the doctors don't know what else
to try. I was told that they sometimes help and they sometimes don't. In
my case, they didn't help but made my intestines MORE immobile than they
already were, and this side effect persisted for many months.
I have a decided anti-steroid bias because steroids are used in asthma
treatment and have incredibly bad side effects in addition to not being
that effective, IMO.
The statement about the virus is separate. I was told that a viral cause
meant the prognosis was better than a non-virus related onset. (Remember,
TM is a collection of problems involving swelling of the myelin that don't
have other names, not one single disease, so the TM can supposedly be
triggered by a virus, by pregnancy/childbirth, and who knows what else,
like vaccines(?)--I was in the hospital with a teenager whose TM was
triggered by childbirth.)
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