{
  "id": 17401318,
  "title": "She spent 18 years believing she had MS. Then her diagnosis changed.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/31/she-spent-18-years-believing-she-had-ms-then-her-diagnosis-changed",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-31T12:00:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBS News",
    "slug": "cbs-news",
    "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/multiple-sclerosis-misdiagnosis-neuromyelitis-optica-christina-applegate/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "DeMonica Amerson was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2001, a shock as no one in her family had ever had the condition. She never knew about MS before her diagnosis, having just graduated from college. Her worldview shifted when she was told she didn't have MS after all, a devastating revelation after 18 years of living with the diagnosis.",
  "summary": "DeMonica Amerson was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at 21. Nearly two decades later, she received devastating news.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}