Your doctors saw lesions on your MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), but lesions are NOT only found in MS. Many conditions can have lesions – for example, migraine headaches, vitamin B12 deficiency.zorro8081980 wrote:lyndacarol, your opinion is better than any doctors prescription. Doctors are not `in our boat` and cant understand the things i feel....
Doctors diagnosed the MS basing on Magnetic resonance imaging results. in february they saw demyelinating. in july(second relapse) they have seen the progression of lesions / that signes plus my symptoms as numbing , loosing vision, bad coordination where taken into consideration. no tests of vitamin level, no special blood tests (just general test ), no thyroid gland test.
i am really interested - what was the reasons you dropped using drugs? bad side effects of that medication or what?
Even the other symptoms you list (numbness, vision disturbances, loss of coordination) are found with many other conditions, including again a vitamin B12 deficiency.
All the other possibilities are usually ruled out by testing first before the MS diagnosis is made. There are tests to identify nutrient deficiencies (like B12, vitamin D, iron, magnesium and others), or tests to find thyroid hormone problems, or kidney problems, etc. – there is NO test that can identify MS.
But as Scott1 implies, all these tests may not be available to you. Focusing on food and your lifestyle may be the easiest and cheapest thing to do. For example, eating food that comes from animals is the only source for vitamin B12 (foods like meat, chicken, fish, eggs, cheese – however, many people think that dairy foods like milk and cheese should be avoided). Vegetarians often develop B12 deficiency. Sitting in the sunshine for 15-20 minutes every day allows vitamin D to be made in the skin where the sunshine falls. (But I am sure it is too cold to be sitting outside in the sunshine in Ukraine now before Christmas! I certainly don't do it before March here in the middle of the US!)
To answer your question… I stopped using MS drugs because I saw no improvements in my condition. I only got steadily worse. Even though my insurance was paying for them, I saw no reason for my insurance company to pay the ridiculously high bills! And I was tired of the side effects (the flu-like chills and shivering – even chattering teeth, bruising, red welts where the injections were given, and general "sick" feeling).
