Hello! I just joined today. I haven’t been on a forum since I was pregnant with my first child 15 years ago. Shortly after her birth, my health problems began. It started with vertigo (diagnosed as viral labrynthitis), fatigue and headaches. I had an MRI done within a year of onset and though a few white spots were seen, MS was ruled out. I continued to have flares and then new symptoms; nerve pain in my left arm, chronic neck and shoulder pain, heat and cold intolerance, pelvic floor dysfunction...When I was pregnant with my second child, all symptoms magically disappeared for all 9 months! Then, in the last two years, the symptoms have gotten worse and the flares more frequent. I now have numbness in my hands that comes and goes, tiny pinprick sensations, hyperreflexia, the “hug” (which actually led to my gallbladder being removed two years ago!). So I recently sought out a new neurologist and she immediately agreed we should re-evaluate for MS. I had another MRI which showed non-specific white spots, but enough for her to then order a lumbar puncture, which I am now recovering from six days later (terrible back pain and pressure in head and neck). I should get my answer next week and to be totally honest, I am hoping for diagnosis and dreading hearing the tests were negative! This condition has dramatically effected my life and relationships. I am laden with guilt over not being a proper mother to my girls and putting too much responsibility (and being a burden) on my husband. I spend way too much of my life in bed and missing life. I just want to be told I have a condition and can start treatment, rather than feeling I must be crazy!