I am attempting to respond to the above question, and with regard to your numbness specifically. The other symptoms are "other symptoms", not related to the numbness per se'.

Have a look at the attacked link. Our numbness fits in a category of "sensory symptoms", which occur often as a result of spinal lesions. Sensory symptoms tend to cluster, so if you have numbness with MS, you will normally have at least some of the other "sensory" (see list) symptoms at the same time.

http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/mssymptoms.html

The "other" symptoms you describe fall in another category (motor, visual, cognitive), and those ones may or may not come on at the same time as the sensory symptoms.

They are looking for a well-orchestrated "package" of symptoms to appear as far as implicating MS.

Cherie