My first LP was done by a intern, other than he had a hard time getting fluid and it took an hour, there was no problem. This one showed high protien and MBP and no O bands. Blood tests were done with it.

The second LP was done by a neuro, I wound up back in ER with a leak and had a blood patch that made my whole left side go numb for many hours, and my upper lip is still numb 9 months later. No accompanying blood work was done with it. Protien was Low, MBP normal and it states 0-1 bands, they tell me that they weren't allowed to tell me if it was 0 or 1. Also they only checked the IgG and not IgM or IgA on the second. My neuro told me he would only check anything to do with MS and nothing else!

Pat