Are you looking for MS information? Some online forums allow people to post MS questions and answers on them. Such multiple sclerosis questions and answers constitute a useful informal source of MS information.
Informal MS resources such as the ones described above do not meet the standard for official medical information. Thus, patients should not give them the same authority that they would give a doctor whom they were consulting. However, they are still useful. This is because, on them, patients can ask questions about multiple sclerosis and learn about alternative diagnoses, potential MS complications, and treatment options that their own doctors might not have considered. They can then do further research on these subjects so that, when they next visit their doctors, they are better informed individuals with a broader sense of their options. Such patients tend to do better coping with their condition: they are often more hopeful …
