Pitac ! I truly know your pain and losses ! However you are making a big difference in people’s lives on this site ! Your encouragement and support and education research understanding empathy! Like you my life has changed! I thank you for your support! You’re a beautiful soul! 😇🦋

Lumbar puncture is just one of many tests run to diagnose MS. On its own alone it does not definitively confirm or rule out MS. Most Neurologists use MRI of brain to search for telltale lesions on the brain for MS, that's the big one, then theres a whole host of more factors looked at through tests. Is that what your drs are suggesting? While not entirely impossible, both AS and MS are not common at all. Spondylitis, i was told by a Neurologist who ran all those tests on me 4 years ago, advanced spondylitis has several Neurological symptoms that resemble MS, but is not MS. Do you know if youve ever been infected with the Epstein Barr virus? The one that causes Mononucleosis. It doesn't necessarily mean that you will develop MS but an interesting study was done some years ago on a wide pool of diverse background patients with MS, over 500 i seem to recall, and everyone of those patients had documented in their historical medical records previously confirmed cases of EBV. I hope you dont have this to deal with too.😌🙏

Ty can lumber puncher show MS

Xrays are the best for showing bones and foreign objects.

Mri's show tissue, organs, muscle and bone.
Mri's are more intricate, and the data isn't as simple as xrays are.