I went to the nuerologist, hoping for some answers-any answers. The trip was 8-yes eight-hours EACH WAY. We got there and the dr (or his office) had LOST my file. All of my local dr's note were not availiable to him, so we had to start from scratch, so that took up most of our limited time. I had personally brought a cd with the mri scans with me. He looked at the pictures-there were more than 500, I noticed, and determined that the brain scan was clear. However I was presening some symptoms that suggest a spinal lesion. I knew that I had a mri of the spine as well, but perhaps that cd did not contain those images?? He said he didn't see them...but there were so many pictures and he didn't look very long. He determined alot of my symptoms could be chalked up to fibro, but several suggested a spinal lesion, but there could be no diagnosis without a clear lesion. Then he was out of time and "really had to go."
After the eight hour drive home, I've worked myself up. I am angry at being no where again! Apparently you can have lesions on the spine without lesions on the brain, but does this mean anything in particular? I tend to treat my fibro as a nuisance, rather than a serious disease; however, with the undetermined ms question lingering, I am a little nervous about pushing myself as hard as I need to at work. I have a lot hours that need to be put in at my business-with a lot of physical strain and mental stress with them-is it ok to do this with possible ms? Any other diagnosis recomendations?