Rach, you poor baby! She did a great job on mine and said she used the tiniest needle she'd ever used for an LP because I got the headaches with the first one I had way back 13 years ago. Didn't help - these were way worse than I remember - like you, sitting up AT ALL or just turning over in bed caused excrutiating pain. Never again!

Do you know that they were specifically looking for viruses in you LP? It has to be ordered to screen for the antibodies- just like with blood work, they pull the same fluid but test differently for different things. My first LP didn't include the viral antibody screen (I don't even know if they could do that way back then) and came back "clean" - no bands (MS and some other types of infections cause them), so we'll see what this one shows. I'm trying not to get my hopes up.

Cross your fingers for me!