Hi Everyone

I'm new here. I just have couple of questions that I thought I could have answered here.

I am a 23 year old female. In december of 2013, I felt numbness in the bottom of my feet, then within hours my entire lower body was numb. I use to get numbness in my hands for few days but it would go away on its own. Anyway so in December I had my entire lower body numb and walking was painful & annoying. I had an MRI done and it showed few lesions in the spinal cord and "vague" ones in the brain. The doctor said it might be MS. but after about 2 weeks I felt fine.


I have a lumbar puncture on april 25th & I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO scared... Just the though of the needle going in my back terrifies me I asked my doctor if I could a general anesthetic and he said no.. just a local one.

Has anyone done an LP before? How bad does it hurt? & is it possible to have a negative LP? is it possible that I have other things than MS? I did a blood test for lyme disease and it came out negative.

Thanks in advance,


Charlie,