Are ms symptoms bilateral
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My symptoms are fairly bilateral. Maybe not exactly, but on the whole I seem to develop the same symptoms on both sides at the same time. I sometimes wonder if that's because the lesions in my spine are all in the "central substance" or "central cord" so maybe they're somewhat symmetrical. Pure speculation on my part.
Bilateral symptoms are more common in transverse myelitis than in MS. Have you had spinal cord MRIs yet? (Cervical and thoracic.) The character of the lesions is usually a little different. With TM you have a single large lesion that spans more than two vertabrae, and plenty of inflammation. Thoracic is more common than cervical.
I know you said typical. It's just said so often by many people. I hate for anyone to think, maybe it's not MS because the sx's are bilateral. I meant no harm by my comment!
Hi! Not trying to scare youbut have they ruled out MS?
you speak of your problems as bilateral, which is not normal (possible but not normal) for MS. MS can be hereditary but for example, from parent to child is around 1% last I heard.
There are other diseases that mimic MS, many of which can be ruled out by blood tests and you did not mention any blood test results.
MS for each of us is different. If you put 100 MS patients in a room, you would have 100 different symptoms and problems.
The title of your question however, is related to distinguishing symptoms of MS and Fibro, but, those symptoms you have mentioned are related moreso to MSers.
BE certain to get in with a PRO immunologist, because of what you went through, and what you are experiencing.
Unlike fibro, to have MS you have to have visible damage within the CNS. I truly hope you find something to help with the nerve pain.
I have these symptoms and a diagnosis of RRMS. Bilateral trigeminal neuralgia is almost exclusive to MS. I have it as well to match my brainstem lesions.
As noted on one of my recent posts, dysautonomia can occur in MS with brainstem lesions so it may be tough to parse out the different symptoms to different diagnoses.
The bilateral trigeminal neuralgia points to MS. The rest of the symptoms I can't be so definite about. But I have done much research on the trigeminal neuralgia.
Hi there, that neuro is full of it with respect to bilateral brain lesions not found in MS. They can be unilateral or bilateral.
With respect to leg issues and spinal lesions, I am not the best person to answer that. I have leg issues with no cervical spine lesions and my previous neuro did not think it necessary to do a thoracic spine MRI. I know spinal cord lesions are much harder to detect than brain lesions and just because you don't see them doesn't mean they don't exist.
s up) for MS to be likely, especially when there are so many other more common non-neurological conditions/issues that it could be. MS has many mimics and when you google symptoms, MS will usually come up somewhere because the sx's are so varied.
More often than not, sx's are medically explained by the more common and if as you say, you "can see a reason for each of these" because of prior diagnosis's and medication etc.
Hi and welcome,
It might not help very much to read first symptoms (sx's), because individual MS sx's vary so much, that each person with MS is said to be unique.
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