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There must be a reason that your physician is concerned about this with you (the symptoms you list are those related to MS as well). Please check our Health Pages for information on Newly Diagnosed, as it shows what other medical conditions can cause like symptoms of FMS/CFS. There is also info. that will explain the symptoms better and you can compare them with what you are experiencing. I'm sorry you are having these problems right now.

I would like to say to that if I hear my Neuro dismiss ALL of my symptoms as NON MS RELATED I will scream....my pain is real, it's constant, it's daily and never ending I would gladly let you take my pain and limitations for just one day cos maybe then you would a better understanding. It's amazing that he actually acknowledges my RRMS bless.

Hi all, well I thought I'd update those of you who read my previous posts: Anyway, it was kind of what I expected. He said if he was pushed for an answer, he'd say its MS but he can't give a clinically definite diagnosis until I have one more episode. He also said that based on my age, purely sensory symptoms its possible that I'll fall into the 20% of sufferers with benign MS and therefore might not get a relapse for at least ten years, if ever.

Are disease modifying drugs available on the NHS? The four disease modifying drugs in the ‘Risk Sharing Scheme’ are available on the NHS to people with MS who meet criteria set out by the Association of British Neurologists. On the NHS, only a neurologist at one of the MS prescribing centres can prescribe these disease modifying drugs.

I notice a dramatic difference in the days leading up to my period. Here in the UK we are assigned an MS nurse specialist after diagnosis and I asked mine about this problem. She has recommended that I try taking something like paracetamol on those days to reduce my temperature as she says pre-menstrual women's temp goes up...only ever so slightly but enough to cause symptoms to pop up! I'm gonna try it next month. I think hormones probably play a part too though!

It seems you might have been mislead somewhere along the way. MS is diagnosed by the clinical signs and symptoms, and having a negative MRI and Lumbar Puncture have nothing to do with it. See the Revised McDonald Protocol. MRIs and LP can not rule out MS. MS is a disease of the CNS and it is diagnosed when you have two exacerbation in different neurologic areas separated by more than 30 days and other causative diseases have been ruled out.

Someone here, sorry I forget right now who it was, brought to our attention a great series of short videos on the UK MS society website. They were also hosting that particular expert, Dr. Alasdair Cook during the week to answer any and all questions that might be posted. Fluffysmom posted a link about the use of caanbis recently and when I saw this opportunity to ask an expert the question, I seized the opportunity - here is my question and Dr Cook's reply.

s in the UK is so much more complicated, due to this economic incentive to only give it to patients that will absolutely show positive results on tests. The cost of MS in the UK is very high and the NHS is also trying to keep those costs down by only giving DMD's to the most needy cases and letting the rest of you linger on your own. Very frustrating system to read about and to know from our UK members here. As for the citalopram question, why don't you start a new thread about that?

The Department of Health published a report this week that showed that the UK ranked 13 out of 14 developed countries for use of MS drugs. Shockingly, the UK usage of MS drugs falls more than 50% below the average for all other countries included in the report. Laura Weir, Head of Policy and Campaigns at the MS Society, stated: "These statistics are very disappointing.

I am interested in comparing the symptoms of MS with the symptoms of prolonged drug use. My Father was diagnosed with MS a few years back, but my step mother neglected to tell the Doctors of his history of drug abuse. I am just curious as to how it may have affected his diagnosis. Any resources available to help compare these are appreciated.

Want to raise as much money as possible for Manchester MS Society and help raise awareness of MS!

Hi Trace, Vit D deficiency can mimic MS symptoms and is also suspected by some as contributing to the disease itself. The further you get from the equator (sunlight and its supply of Vit D) the greater the occurence rate of MS in the general population. Canada and the UK have very high rates. You should take a look at some of the other common mimics too. We have them listed on our health pages - here is the link - http://www.medhelp.

I was never diagnosed but was told by two different neuros that even if I did have MS, they wouldn't treat it, because my symptoms were too mild. My worst symptoms they attribute to other things (dizziness = inner ear, walking trouble = scoliosis, etc. etc.). I'm not saying I necessarily agree with them, just saying that this appears to be a view held by many neurologists (don't treat if the symptoms aren't "bad enough", in their opinion).

I watch a forum sight in the Uk and sometimes post on it. It is part of the MS organization here in the uk and has a particular board for those in limbo. Well over the last week there has been a surge in those Dx with MS! Alot seem to have been in the system quite a while. I thought it was interesting, and wonder why? could it be due to the new Mac criteria one asks.

Neurologists seldom diagnose MS right away. All my tests and symptoms pointed to MS from the beginning but they had to observe me for two years before they would diagnose it as MS. They go by the MCDonald Criteria. You can clique on the health pages at the top right. There you can get a better explanation. You might be diagnosed with Clinically Isolated Syndrome. It is complicated however. Did they do blood work to rule out other diseases?

It is very difficult to be diagnosed in the UK without hard evidence - my concern is i could be on DMDs to slow it down if it is MS - if not then i have wasted five years when i could have had DMDs.

Why is there, the false premise, that MS Patients have less symptoms, in the cooler and colder months? I, for one, suffer many symptoms, in the cooler and colder months, in fact, when I was Dx'd, back in 2009, my Neurologist suggested, that I do NOT leave my home, except for necessaries, like Doctor's Appointments. The Cold Temperatures present, just as many difficulties, as the Hot Temperatures, at least, for me.

Its summer and loads of people last year in UK got bad summer cold with same symptoms, this year if you have a cold, cough, sore throat and a bit of fever your told you have swine flu with NO SWABS. One girl yesterday nearly died because she was told she had swine flu and got worse and worse and ended up in emergency and she had MENINGITIS. This new service is going to be misused IF it works that is.

It never occurred to me that my symptoms might be MS until I did an internet search on heat intolerance last month. Now it is all I can think about! So excuse me for my frequent questions! It helps me to ask. I am wondering if any of you who have officially been diagnosed have had a slow onset of symptoms as I have. Many of you have really severe symptoms. My symptoms have been slowly and sublty appearing.

relapse in January 2012 - with numbness/tingling in my left hand and two further brain lesions on MRI - led to a diagnosis of relapsing and remitting Multiple Sclerosis (MS) on 30 May 2012 at a hospital in London, UK. I have had other sensory relapses since. On 31 August 2012, I then received a positive serology for chronic Lyme disease from Infectolab, part of the Borreliose Centrum, in Augsburg, Germany to which I had sent my blood from London.

A good article, however nothing we don't already know.......... Misconceptions Make Life Tougher For People With MS "A national poll commissioned by the MS Society has shown a widespread confusion and ignorance about multiple sclerosis (MS) in the minds of the general public.

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