I have had neurological problems for years, too many to list, but symptoms like MS to the point that all my doctors believe and have said I have MS except my neurologist. He says he has to have proof in the form of lesions on the MRIs. He does MRIs at least yearly. Other doctors treat me as if I have MS. I won't go into all of the symptoms, but they vary and new ones are added to it, I have flares. More than one doctor has said that IF this isn't MS, then it is something just like it.

I am frustrated right now. I have xrays going back twenty years, in various cities and hospitals and clinics that show I have bulging disks in my neck and lower back. I have had pain in these places for at least that long, and I was rear-ended over twenty years ago. Suddenly, the tests reveal no abnormality with the vertebrae according to hospital xrays. I have an extremely difficult time believing that. I started having neck pains again very severely three months ago. My GP sent me for new xrays and I was told no disk problems. After all of these problems and no help from a MD about the neck, I decided to see a chiropractor that is supposed to be good. He took a lot of xrays and showed me the xrays that showed I have a bone spur on one of the neck vertebrae that is turned in. I have had swallowing problems for some time and part of that is because of esonphilic esophagitis, but the GI doctor said it didn't explain all of the problems. I have read that this type of bone spur can also cause swallowing problems. I went to the hospital to get a copy of the report and the CD of xrays to take to a spine specialist. When I read the report, it said no lesions. It did not mention vertebrae at all, as no abnormality of the vertebrae as you would normally see. I am puzzled. I don't know who to believe. My neurologist would never send me for an xray to look at lesions, so why did the general physician, and why was it worded this way. I just feel like I am being lied to by doctors.

My husband works in the radiology field and he cannot explain this either. It makes me question everything about doctors.