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Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 8:23 pm
by Jugular
Sorry. Read the thread title and thought they were looking for volunteers.

:?

:D

Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 9:35 pm
by PointsNorth
munchkin wrote:When I was diagnosed I never had a lumbar puncture. The Dr's felt that it was redundant when the mri was pretty conclusive.

I wonder how many people, especially Canadians, never got full testing.
Me neither.

I remember my neurologist said that lumbar p produced false positives/negatives on a very regular basis - so as to be useless in diagnosis. He was an 8 year veteran of the local MS clinic so I thought he had a legit reason for thinking this.

Re: thread title: I too thought some of us here were being singled out. :)