I come from the other view point of the spinal tap. Done by some one who knows what they are doing, U had no problems whatsoever. My first LP was when I was in a hypertensive crisis, had nothing to do with MS. My head was in such pain with the hypertension I wouldn't have known if they had cut my arm off. Next day we got up and traveled to Florida to Disney World.

My second one was for my MS. It was done in the radiology department of the hospital. He did it under the guidance of xray so he could know exactly where to put the needle. No mistakes when you do it that way. Next one was when I saw a MS specialist and he wanted to re-run tests. This time was done the same way but they had radiology students or maybe it was premed students, can't remember watching my bare behind!!!! Another piece of cake.

Everyone is different when it comes to any experience with the MS testing, treatments, symptoms, etc because we all have lesions in different places.