Testing for MS is actually quite difficult, its more a diagnosis of elimination in some respects, MRI is more likely to show evidence of MS after 2 suspected acute attacks with at least a 3 month interval I think (sorry going by memory as my notes are too far to reach lol) I think the Lumbar puncture is only worth doing in one strain of MS?

It would be interesting Ali your Dr actually ordering a brain MRI just to see, not saying you have MS but just because of the ataxic type gait you had.

I am working in an MS community clinic at the moment and our clinical educator was telling us of the 3 'hidden' symptoms of MS being neuropathic pain, fatigue and cognitive issues, after a week and then me having a bad day I took her aside and said I suffer from the same 3 hidden symptoms but dont have MS. I think it makes me really able to remember to watch out for how my patients are feeling and not push them too hard or do things too fast for them, I really feel like I have this extra connection to them.

I dont know about any proven relationship but then MS is not really known what causes it either, they have hypotheses but nothing that is positive. Maybe one day they will find out that they really are quite similar in nature except that MS has positive findings on MRI most of the time whereas so far there is not a diagnositic test for RSD.

Take care everybody!