First I want to say how deeply touched and amazed I am at such a wonderfully caring, organized and informative website.

I've been “enjoying” very mild neurological symptoms for the past year or so -- basically intermittent numbness/reduced sensation, weakness in my right arm, hand, leg and foot. Until recently it hasn’t interfered with my “normal” life. But occasionally my leg gets wobbly and my fingers get uncoordinated but I’ve managed. Now it’s gotten progressively worse and I was referred to a neurologist.

Fast forward to today and I’m going to be tested for MS on October 20th. I am having a MRI and a VEP testing. I am very light sensitive in my right eye and get unbearable eye pain. I wear out much more easier now , I get pins/needles feeling in my right leg and foot, I have a very hard time concentrating, dizziness, and feel like I am in a fog constantly now. I also now have a hard time going up and down steps as it’s becoming a struggle, hence the name THUMPER.

So I’ve been bad and trying to research all this and I found this site. I was told it may be possible that having a negative MRI but a positive VEP test could mean MS. Can anyone clarify this for me? I am confused somewhat about this and still trying to learn about MS.

Welcome to Neuro Talk Thumper (that was my fav. book when I was just a kid) I'm glad you've joined us. Here is the link to our MS forum...they are a great group and you'll find a lot of support there..http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum17.html

Hello and welcome to Neuro talk

following that link above will allow you to direct your questions to a more specific forum there are many forums here and don't forget to stop in and join in on the fun and vents in the social chat forum, all work and no play makes jack a very dull boy

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum35.html social chat

again sorry you ahd to find us but glad you did welcome again to NT

ROFL!!!

Hi Thumper and welcome (love the name).

The MS forum has a lot of information along with some very supportive people.

Let me know if you need anything and good luck with your appointment.

hello and welcome to neurotalk ... i do love your name ... one of my favorite disney story ... anyway ... here at NT you will find lots of friendly and helpful people here ... i hope to see you in some of the forums ... i found this pic and figured i would send you a real bambi welcome to thumper ...and again ... welcome to the group

Hi Thumper and welcome to Neurotalk! We have a great group of MSer's here....please join right in! Sorry you have the necessity to be here but so glad you found us!!

HAHAHA SO CUTE I LOVE BUNNIES!

which reminds me.
I used to own a very cranky bunny. His name was Casey and he would thump his foot every time I put him down from holding him. And he always had that grumpy look on his face too

Welcome friend

Well there you all are. You won't believe what I did. I was at another forum because I couldn't figure out where I joined, brain fog. I even was giving the mods a hard time because my post wasn't showing up - you can post as a guest. But it was the wrong forum - insert smack head here

Thank you all so much for the welcomes, now that I know where I am.

And Twinkletoes, thanks for the message but I can reply for some reason. I can't even post smilies either.

And thank you for Thumper. I needed an avatar and now I have one. I just have to figure out how to get it up here.

I think I'd better go thumper in to the Stumble Inn and introduce myself.

You have to have 10 posts in the forum first and then you can reply to posts and you can also customize your profile as well

I hope this helps take care