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My understanding is that usually if there isn't enough lesions to diagnose MS...they diagnose transverse myelitis. I'm sure there are other things too though.

Good for her taking matters into her own hands.
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My understanding is that usually if there isn't enough lesions to diagnose MS...they diagnose transverse myelitis. I'm sure there are other things too though.

Good for her taking matters into her own hands.
No, not necessarily . . . or even most of the time.

TM requires that a person have at least one spinal lesion, and that it caused a clear attack. The attack can be mild, moderate or severe, and it will leave a person with very mild disability --> right through to causing them to be permanently bedridden from the get-go:

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/t...s.htm#41903234

There are about 100 differential dx for MS

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

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