Got my blood test results....

So, I have been stalling writing this....not sure why, just don't want to say it I guess. Anyways, so last week I had got a call at work from Dr Smoot. He had received the result of my blood test. There are 3 classifications: negative, postive and strongly postive. He called personally to tell me that mine came out POSITIVE!! Yikes! He was more or less trying to encourage me to not jump to conclusions yet, that we still needed more testing, starting with the lumbar puncture. I also have to have a memory test, which I have scheduled this thursday. The lumbar puncture is scheduled for Sept 6th. I am really anxious about it. I'm trying to not think about it, but I'm more convinced that it really could be possible that I'm in the early stages of MS....we'll see...

Saw neurologist yesterday...

Ok, so saw Dr. Smoot yesterday. I explained to him how my right leg symptoms got worse for about a week or so (as written in my last blog entry). I also explained that I have a concern that I have been having a hard time word finding at times. It is subtle, I don't think anyone else notices, but I sure can tell that I have a hard time finding words at times. I asked him several questions, 1) could my brain lesions ever go away? He said no, they are like a scar. 2) asked doesn't MS involve numbness/tingling bilaterally? He said not always. Can't remember what else I asked him at this time. He still needs to rule out MS. He told me there is a new blood test that looks for MS specifically, but he uses it with all the other tests as well. So I had blood drawn for it yesterday. I need to have an LP (yikes!!!), but at least I will be able to do this in Salem. And he wants to set me up for a memory test. They will be calling me to schedule all this stuff...we'll see what comes of it.