Aaron Boster
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clinics around the United States, it's not covered ubiquitously by insurance yet, but I think we're going to see that change.
And having this new diagnostic tool, this Octave DA test, really assists in our assessment and monitoring of patients, which is pretty darn exciting.
a lot of things can cause you to be numb.
It doesn't have to be MS.
It could be B12 deficiency.
It could be diabetes.
There's a host of things.
And so a diagnosis is a tough animal.
And your point's very well taken that if you talk to someone with MS, they have a story.
And it's generally not like a nice story.
It makes me feel sad.
So I really recommend what I call the 24 hour rule, right?
So if you punched me in my face and my face got all puffy, that's caused by inflammation.
And if we looked at my face tomorrow, it's more puffy because inflammation doesn't go away in a couple hours.
It'll last days, right?
When you have an MS attack, it's caused by inflammation in the noggin.
And if you have a symptom, it's going to last longer than a day.
So as an example, if you wake up and your hand's numb and you shake it out and it feels better, you probably don't have to call me.
If you wake up and your hand's numb and the next day it's more numb,
Now it's met the 24-hour rule, and now I want to hear about it.