Hi Tinadyke,

I've had MS for over 40 years and have been following posts on MS message boards for 20 years. I hope you won't turn out to have MS but I am surprised that you mention a CT scan of the brain and not a brain MRI.

A CT scan can reveal many things but it is a brain MRI that is usually done, along with the 2 spinal MRI's you mention having. I hope you will ask your neurologist about this.

You might want to find a neurologist who is also an MS specialist.

If you have MS, the doctor will probably recommend that you start on one of the disease-modifying drugs (known as DMDs or DMT for disease-modifying therapy) as soon as possible. There are over a dozen of them now.

There have been many studies of diet and MS, but so far no diet has been shown to have an effect on MS although making sure that you're getting the nutrients your body needs, in the right proportions, is always important for general health. You want to stay as healthy as possible if you have MS because infections can cause flareups.

People nowadays have a nearly-normal life expectancy with MS, partly thanks to the generally better care for infections and other complications and partly due to the use of the disease-modifying drugs. Their effect is modest but it is real.

I hope you'll get some satisfactory answers soon!