hello and welcome, first breathe just take a breath. I know you are probably scared to death and overwhelmed trying to look up as much information as you can. First, let me tell you there are more than 100 diseases that can mimic MS. The list can be long and scary. It includes many things like vitamin deficiencies, B12, D, Lyme disease, lupus, Devic's, and several other strange sounding diseases.

The place to start is with your primary care physician. Have him run a simple panel of blood tests including your vitamin levels have him include an allergy panel and a C reactive protein level. Keep a journal write down every test that you've taken, and what the results are. Keep a symptom journal record what time of day your symptoms are better or worse. What conditions make it better or worse hot or cold are you tired or hungry?

Take your journals and your test results and have your physician recommend a multiple sclerosis Center. They are the pros at weeding out one disease from another. Please know there are a lot of diseases to go through and they will start with the most likely or the easiest to weed out. Like vitamin B-12 is easy to fix but can cause the same symptoms as multiple sclerosis. Lyme disease or lupus can cause many of the same symptoms but are harder to fix, they can also be discovered in bloodwork. once you weed out 90% of the things that can cause MS type symptoms you are left with a small handful of diseases your doctor will take what is most likely to be the cause of your symptoms. You will probably need an MRI and some doctors want a spinal tap.

Please know this is a long road and isn't usually answered quickly, so breathe, just breathe. Arm yourself with information, read research go to the MS Society website. There are several wonderful places to get information.

I wish you the best of luck please let us know how you're doing and what you're finding out.