[yeti]

I'm not going to go into a long post on my history yet, maybe after the neuro I'll do a better post. In any case, my history is long and weird, and I'm that person the doctors never know what's wrong since i was a teenager. I'm a male in my late thirties.

Most recently I went in with what I thought was a serious back and neck injury. I had trouble walking, partial loss of use of my right arm, and some other things. Referred to an ortho.

On the second visit after the MRI (lumbar/cervical no contrast) he was much more serious. I had transverse myelitis and he told me it was possible I had MS. Wow. It makes a whole lot of sense given my history. This was not the first weird neurological problem I have had, although this is the first time MS had been mentioned.

After another MRI, this time with cervical contrast and the brain with and without contrast. Of course I had a horrible reaction to the contrast (sigh), but otherwise the results were good news. Normal brain, still the same cervical transverse myelitis. Doc said maybe it isn't MS, but I didn't give the ortho my whole weird history (was there for back/neck issues!). Referred me to a neuro, who I see friday.

After extensive reading, I am almost certain it is either MS or a mimic. Definitely wasn't a one time event, although THIS attack was completely different than my last 2 major attacks. And even though I was nearly paralyzed on my right side (mostly ok now) it wasn't even close to as bad as my 2004 vertigo attack. That was pure hell for nearly 2 years, and I've never been the same person since then.

In any case, I'm really confused right now, a little scared, but really just want some answers. I don't even know why I registered here and why I'm posting this. I don't even know if MS is the right forum to be posting in since i have no idea what's wrong with me! I guess just to get some feelings out of my head.

Sorry.