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Yes a bit of a reflief and vindication for my original self diagnosis. But the grieving process for the loss of mobility that I'm experiencing is pretty heavy. The big problem is when I was told that I didn't have MS & felt I was being blown off by my GP, I went into a deep depression and just g...

Killer deal is right on the MRIs in the Ukraine.
I checked into the cost of a private MRI here in Canada and I was quoted CDN$1,000 for only one MRI w/o contrast. The problem here is that unless the problem is work or sports related an MRI can take well over a year to get, so some people chose to pay.

In fact over 25 years worth of symptoms now that I look back.

Yes, I had years of symptoms mostly ignored by my GP or lately written off by her as "post menopausal".
So the brain MRI and my symptoms were a complete picture for the neuros. The last one I saw even said that the result of a lumbar puncture wouldn't make a difference to my diagnosis.

A whole lot of symptoms and 3 MRI's. No lumbar puncture - would have refused it if it had been suggested. The last neuro I saw gave his opinion that it was totally unnecessary procedure given the symptoms that I recited and the ones he witnessed.

My first MS symptoms happened over 25 years ago. It was a week of slurred speech, fatigue, brain fog and a sort of bit foggy vision at times. Throughout the years I had fatigue, bits of slurred speech, forgetting words, vertigo, back pain, sciatica and countless other symptoms that I mentioned to my...

My opinion of the neurologists I have seen is mixed but I have some definite issues with them. One told me that he suspected MS two years before my Dx & should have goltten me a brain scan but didn't & the other told me that CCSVI treatment was only a big money grab. My answer to them should...

A man with MS walks into a bar and says, "Give me a beer before problems start!" Again, the man orders a beer again saying, "Give me a beer before problems start!" The bartender looks confused. This goes on for a while, and after the fifth beer the bartender is totally confused a...

Oh man, that much predisone sounds down right nasty but I met a woman last week who was given something of similar dose of it when she was first diagnosed scared the daylights out of her and also made her sick to her stomache. jimmylegs - Doctor hoffer had my mother go on very high doses of Vitamin ...

I was given Gabapentin for nerve pain a few years ago before I was diagnosed with MS...nerve pain that was MS pain and at that time my balance became really awful. But was it the Gabapentin or the MS??? My guess is that the Gabapentin makes one's balance worse. But what was even worse for me was tha...

Do I qualify for "golden years"...not sure what it means, but heh, what the heck!

Oh my goodness that (gasp) MD - Abram Hoffer is the man my mother consulted when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She followed his regime of supplements faithfully throughout her rediation therapy, chemo & almost right to the end of her life. Her cancer spread throughout most her body (a PE...

Yes, want2bike, an enormous puzzel as I'm discovering - I used to take good health for granted because I found it easy to stay well with a small focus on what I was eating and a few added supplements & vitamins. Never again will I think it's easy. I do take some probiotics in the form of an acid...

want2bike - I just got around to looking at the links you posted - right on! they so reflect many of my own views of drug companies and their hold over so many aliopathic practioners. Immediately I was diagnosed I started in on reading about MS treatments and quickly developed what I can only call a...

Thanks, jimmylegs, for all the zinc info. Yeah, I've given up red meat too - all a huge lifestyle change but I figure if any of it can make a difference for the betterment of things for me - it's worth it. But in the meantime there is a lot of figuring out how to make sure that I'm properly replacin...