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Old 07-06-2008, 11:21 AM
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Time will tell, Nick.

With MS, they are looking for the right size, shape and location of the "dots" (lesions), combined with a clinical history suggestive of MS. They want to see changes over time, both physically and in the MRI results, if the initial results are inconclusive.

Attached is a list of 100 differential dx, and information on how they dx MS. There is no blood test (or any other kind of test) that CONFIRMS MS, it's a matter of them ruling out all other potential causes, then putting the pieces together, usually over TIME.

http://www.neurology.wisc.edu/public...bs/Neuro_2.pdf

If you have any further changes in symptoms in the future, it is probably worthwhile to have further brain and C & T spine MRIs.

Cherie
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