A neuro exam is only as good as the neuro. My first exam, I had NO reflex at all in my ankles. None. The neuro's NP and a doc in training both tried several times and could not find it, the neuro herself could not find it, and she just said "Oh well, let's move on."

She never remarked on it in her file.



My current neuro called that ridiculous - why bother doing reflexes if you're going to ignore the results?

He asked me how long I was hypo-reflexive on the left, hyper-reflexive on the right?

HUH? I never heard I was, lol.

Next visit, he checked my file and said how odd, it was opposite now....

There was no way I could have been *normal* for 3 other neuros for years and suddenly having all this crop up when he started checking.

Even this sort of thing comes and goes, early on. You can have a good day and they may not see much even if they ARE looking and know what to look for.

IMHO, a neuro exam cannot dx ms or rule it out.

I hate to say this (again) but I started being tested for ms in Jan '03 - they still don't know. That's 7 yrs in limbo for me. I can't say when the sx started for sure. I can say I have been dx with a couple other things meanwhile, but they don't account for all the things that are wrong with me. And I may never know if I have ms or what. And that is going to have to be okay.