[Mcharris]

I have been a member for a while but have been absent.......
Tiz good to be back where I feel welcomed and not judged as being off my rocker, so to speak!

My medics are still trying to decide if I have MS....... and because there is no one else on our Island to send me to for a look and possible diagnosis, I am being sent to see another neurologist, over the water.... at the end of October. Personally I feel tiz NOT MS....... I do not want a diagnosis of MS and so far the MRI's are very ordinary and not showing what the neuro is looking for.... but the symptoms are there! - according to him.

I wish, I truly do, that just once in a while they would consider looking 'outside ofthe circle' so to speak.

Last year my B12 serum dropped down to 3 hundred something and I had all of the same symptoms. I fought with my GP over taking B12 IM.... he argued me that it was unnecessary, that my serum B12 and Folate were in the 'normal' range. I took it upon mysel to get B12 and self inject - you can do this in Ozzy Land........ my serum levels slowly crept up to 700.... so there was a deficit and the injections did help. But a new GP had told me categorically to STOP, as I do not need them at all now with my levels at 700......... I have been off them for a few months and the symptoms of dizziness, weakness, gait problems, bleeding gums ..... to name just a few.... did I forget memory issues? sorry

They still want to find MS........ I would be much happier with B12 deficiency.... possibly caused by the use of SOMAC 40mg for over 7 years, possibly causing issues with Intrinsic Factor.......... but guy's, I am NOT a medic, so what would I know huh?????

I am feeling sorry for myself right now....... anyone care to comment?

Cheer's from Clare in Tassie