w0rldflame

I know I am probably beating a dead horse but I want to eliminate all options before writing MS off as the cause. does anyone know how to find an MS specialist in the area? I cant seem to find any listed online.

I am starting to wonder if I am wrong about the time frame, as I think about it I did notice the double vision starting about 8 years ago, but not to much else. It really has been in the last 13 months that things have progressed and gotten worse and the Symptoms for MS all seem to fit, I can check almost everything off on a list, however so many other disease present the same way, I just want to be able to sit down and know what I am and what I am not dealing with. If I was the doctor and heard the patient say 8 years then I too would have ordered an MRI without contrast because if there were any old attacks I would be able to see the scaring, however with the fact that most of the symptoms like dizziness, loss of spelling, memory and getting confused easy, with heat sensitivity and bad balance. most have presented themselves only in the last year and a half, so there may not be any old lesions that would show.

I live in Salinas California, which about 45 minutes south of San Jose california. I may be moving soon to the central valley of california. but I would like to get some piece of mind of what is going on weither it is MS or not.

at this point having a diagnosis of MS I dont feel is a death sentence and at least I would know what I was dealing with. Having a diagnosis of something else if the doctor isnt just doing guess work and actually examines me, would be fine as well, just to know what I am dealing with and how to deal with it.

I feel maybe if I see an MS speacilist and they say its not MS then I can focus on something else, but the current doctors not only dont examine me but just keep prescribing me stuff for each individual syptom without finding a cause, and I just cant keep on going not knowing why my things like looking at the words and they seem to move around the page or why I get so dizzy that nothing helps and yet the room isnt spinning.

I am not having sezuires and I cant seem to talk my doctor into a spinal tap to eliminate Lyme since they are taking the blood test results as 100%

so, If I can find an MS specalist in my area that hopefully my insurance will cover, I can go with a list of my problems, lay it on the table and let the run to test to either include it or disclude it as the problem. I just need a good specialist. I have taken a look at my mom and her health and how she has degraded because of no treatment and no diagnosis on what is wrong, and if this is something hereditary I really dont want to become what I have seen her degrade to. but I would need to find that out know in order to treat it before its to late.

I know I am rambling but thanks for reading

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