Interesting that about 65% of us either didn't have "enough" O-bands to influence the dx process, and/or we didn't even have a LP.

Even if we only count the people that KNOW their results, it's about 50/50 on having the required amount (to influence the dx).

And, there are a large group of us that KNOW we didn't have enough to add credence to the dx process . . . yet we still have the dx.

There seem to very few people that get a dx, without very strong "other" evidence anyway; lesions, clinical testing results, clear attack history.

Based on this (which is very similar to the poll results from the other forum a few years ago), there really doesn't seem to be much point in getting a LP done, does there?

I wonder where they got the approximate "90% of those with MS have O-bands" stat? Maybe that is based on OLD (pre MRI) information, because historically they didn't give out a MS dx unless/until they saw the O-bands.

Cherie