ladycakes

I've been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia (by a Rheumatologist) and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (by a Neurologist). My Neurologist insists that all of my symptoms can be accounted for by these two syndromes, but I have yet to find many of the motor skill/gait disturbance symptoms recognized for either.

Next month, I'm seeing a Lyme specialist to test for that, and I believe Lupus as well.

When I saw the Neurologist, I found him to be pretty dismissive in general. I handed him my laundry list of symptoms, and he asked me to name my top three complaints (I understand they have very little time, but with diseases that have so very many symptoms, isn't very effective diagnostically). I told him that one of my concerns was the weirdness I was having with my eyes (pain when I moved them, trouble focusing, spots, etc.) and some numbness. He said, "Oh, you think you have MS huh?". He had me do some tests (I felt in order to shut me up), and everything has come up clean. MRI, EEG, EMG, VEP, and the opthamologist said no optic neuritis/inflammation of the optic nerve. I did totally bomb the heel-toe gait test though.

So I have a lot of symptoms that, as you folk know, could be MS or could be a million other things. My tests have come up clean thus far. But I feel like the neurologist I saw had already made up his mind on my diagnosis before even running the tests. Is it worth it, for me, to see a specialist?