I saw my Dr. on Feb. 1st, after an xray he diagnosed me with Osteoarthritis. But he couldn't explain the numb feeling in my face and scalp the teeth chatter or the random pains that just show up out of nowhere all over my body.
After a long wait I got in to see a neurologist in early May. He diagnosed me, after a series of test, with Sensory Neuropathy. He as well did not address my main symptoms. He, nor the radiologist that read the pictures, did not compare my MRI from a year and 1/2 ago because it was at a different facility even though I told him I had one then.
I finally got him to compare the 2 MRI's and he found some abnormalities, which would have been fine if I had been suffering from high blood pressure and other things. But since I am rather healthy it was abnormal.
I just had a MRI of my neck and a Spinal Tap a few days ago and my Dr. is on vacation until next week....yippieee
This MRI seems to have come back normal and some of the test that were run don't seem to show what the standard value is.
I do appear to have a extremely elevated CSF Protein.
And my CSF Cell Count w/o Diff is Red and Cloudy.
I'm really nervous that this is MS and have no clue what to expect since I have a friend who, for the most part, you couldn't tell has MS and another that seemed to progress very quickly has been incapacitated for some time.
Any encouragement out there?