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See what the final tests come up with, but don't be afraid to let your doctor know that "we don't know" is not an answer they can settle on. One trick I learned is take a friend or family member to the doctor with you - they try a little bit harder when they feel like somebody else is watc...

I see. The thing about MS is that it does share symptoms with quite a few other conditions, so it can be hard to pin down. Though it's hell to not know what's wrong your body, it's probably good that your doctor isn't leaping to the most convenient diagnosis and wants to be certain. Good luck.

My doctor didn't! After my MRI, I didn't hear from them, and just assumed that everything was okay, but then really needed to know and couldn't get hold of the right people. It was about a year later that the uni welfare officer who had been helping my try to get hold of them, brought me in to discu...

I got a progesterone contraceptive implant about two and a half years ago. This wasn't anything to do with my MS, but I have one. With so many other factors with this disease and my treatments, I can't say if the hormone had any hand in my recovery/lack of relapses, but my last relapse was three yea...

When I was 17, I had an ON attack, and that's when I was diagnosed. The attack was only in the one eye, and I couldn't see anything directly in front of me, just indistinct blurs in my peripheries. I didn't have any steroids but I recovered most of my sight within 2 - 3 months. Now, 9 years later, t...

I'd say just keep an eye on it: remission is a consistent lessening of symptoms, and I think a couple of days is possibly a bit too soon to attempt labelling things. Are you newly diagnosed?

I always just consider it remission if I have no onset of new symptoms.