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Having oligoclonal bands in the serum matching those in the cerebrospinal fluid can mean different things. Here are some possibilities. 1) Nothing-not related to disease, a normal variant 2) serum contamination of the cerebrospinal fluid (a spinal tap involves pushing a needle through vascularized ...

Hi Mark, Not sure what you mean by "accept that conclusion", as I was not really questioning whether this is MS, I was trying to figure out which o-band pattern my results fit into, already knowing that it was not the o-band pattern commonly seen in MS. Thanks for confirming my own thought...

When I received my spinal tap results, it came back with: MULTIPLE RESTRICTION BANDS IN BOTH CSF AND SERUM; CANNOT DETERMINE THE ORIGIN OF BANDS, CNS or SERUM. My understanding about bands & MS is that people with MS will usually (90%?) have more bands in the CSF than the serum (blood). Since t...

Welcome to ThisIsMS, Cherubi. You have no need to feel alone – you have found us. Although you are not diagnosed with MS, we are happy to share our experiences and thoughts on this disease of MS – each of us is different, with unique ideas that are not necessarily shared by anyone else here. To you...

Hello, I am new here and thought that perhaps I would be able to get the most help from people who have gone through this...the doctors have been no help. I feel so alone and abandoned by the medical system, and am desperately trying to find out what this illness is, which is only getting worse :( I...