Imagine how lonely it must feel to be sick – the kind of sick that doesn’t get better with rest or time – and not having a definitive diagnosis. Despite multiple specialists and extensive tests, from blood draws to brain scans, doctors can’t tell you what’s wrong or how to get better.
These are the patients Amanda Piquet, MD, professor of neurology at University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine, sees every day. Many patients find her after long diagnostic journeys and sometimes even after being misdiagnosed. Many have spent months, years, even decades looking for answers to problems that include difficulty with coordination and speech, muscle weakness and fatigue, numbness and tingling and memory impairment.
Never Dream Alone, a newly launched advertising campaign, highlights the work of Amanda Piquet, MD, and her team along with other members of the CU Anschutz community. A special project done in collaboration with the Colorado Symphony, the ad campaign underscores how great things come when people work together. See related stories:
Piquet wants people with autoimmune neurological disorders to know that they aren’t alone. Through patient care, research and collaboration, Piquet dreams to improve life for everyone impacted by the diverse types of autoimmune disorders that affect the brain and spinal cord.
Known for treating singer Céline Dion for stiff person syndrome, read how Piquet is advancing medicine for all people who suffer from life-altering neuroinflammatory diseases.