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So what happened at the appointment? I hope you are doing well with whatever has happened. It went so well compared to my past experiences with doctors. She ordered an EEG for that day and a bunch of labs: TSH T3 TPO Comprehensive Metabolic Panel Vitamin D Cyanocobalamin (B-12) CBC And they are wor...

I'm going to the neurologist for the first time tomorrow morning! I am super nervous. I've been journaling my symptoms for the last several weeks and right now I'm writing out the timeline that I posted here so that I can present it to her. Cross your fingers for me please!

Do you feel like your symptoms have only been getting a little worse and worse? Or do you feel like they hit and then get better? Look up the differences between relapse remitting MS and secondary progressive MS. There is also primary progressive MS. Relapse remitting shows signs and symptoms but c...

It very much so tends to occur within the same families.That is one of the main questions when looking into possible MS symptoms. They do not know how or what but MS is thought to be genetic along with environmental factors. So what did you get an MRI for if it wasn't your brain or spine? Was anyon...

So when is the last time you had an MRI? Did you ever get an MRI of your brain and or spine with and without contrast? Do you have any one in your family with MS? It is hard to help you over the internet... plus I am by no means an expert. The biggest red flag I see is that your symptoms stopped wh...

Since your symptoms are consistent with a vitamin B12 deficiency, I think this is the place to start. If you are found to have a deficiency, treatment is easy and inexpensive; if caught early, symptoms are usually reversible. We wish you all the best; please let us know how it goes with you. Thanks...

I have recently been seriously considering seeing a neurologist and asking for an MS workup. Over the years as different symptoms have come up, I have seen different doctors who run serology or do an MRI of a joint and say that everything is normal and then put me on antidepressants. I got sick of b...