Hello all, I'm becoming very anxious and annoyed by the fact that the neuro at the Teaching Hospital and MS Center scheduled me for a lumbar puncture this Thursday. How many of you had anxiety? How many of you had a lumbar puncture as a measure for getting a certain diagnosis. When I first had my optic neuritis and my first corticosteroid i.v., the neuro who treated me there gave me a MRI that found 12-13 lesions on the right side of my brain (parietal, frontal and infratentorial), which only 2 showed presence when injected with gadolinium. The second day I had my Visual Evoked Potentials, which showed a latency of about 33 miliseconds (an indicative of delayed nervous signals transmitted to the brain). I tested negative for other infections like Borrelia, Toxoplasmosis and others. My D3 levels were just above the minimum amount.... I feel fatigued, I had a mild paresthesia in late August.. I do not want to do a spinal tap. It scares me. The thing that scares me are the consequences like nerve brushing, malpraxis and such. Thank you for your answers! Hope everyone is feeling OK :)