No news is...

I had a follow up appointment with my family doctor this morning.

We went over the MRI results, and he told me basically the same things that the ER doctor did. The most common cause of these symptoms is MS, but that I wasn't a highly likely candidate for it. There are several other things that could be causing my overall symptoms, including migraines.

The important thing is that none of this is life threatening. At the absolute worst, whatever it is should be treatable, if not curable. So that's some comfort there.

The bad thing is, it may take six weeks to get in to see the neurologist. I was hoping it would be faster than that. The doctor is going to try to push it through sooner, but it didn't sound likely.

So now I have some antibiotics, some migraine pills, and something that treats the neurological symptoms.

Yesterday I started getting some weakness in my left leg. "Weakness" might not be the best word for it. I like to call it "rubbery" - the same sort of feeling that you get after running for a while. I don't feel like I'm going to fall over or anything like that (at least not from the leg - I do feel very fatigued, though), but it just doesn't feel right.

I can't decide if the visit with the doctor made me feel better or worse. A bit better, since we've moved a bit in the "not MS" direction, but a bit worse, since we've moved a bit away from a definite diagnosis.

The symptoms have come on so suddenly that I think I'd rather have a definite diagnosis.