In 2009, I was diagnosed (or maybe misdiagnosed) with multiple sclerosis. At the time, I had a tingling feeling in my fingertips and toes and an MRI showed lesions in my brain and cervical spinal cord. I didn’t think the neurologist was right about what was causing the tingling (he said my immune system was attacking my central nervous symptom) and I absolutely disagreed with his prognosis–that I would continue to lose feeling and eventually movement unless I took drugs.
I said, “thank you very much,” and went on to see a number of other doctors. I was told I had vitamin deficiencies, heavy metal toxicity, anxiety and depression. Ultimately, I found an ayurvedic doctor who helped me clean up my diet (I can’t eat gluten), a therapist who helped me clean out some old emotional wounds, and a cranial sacral osteopath who helped teach my body to relax.
I have been symptom-free for years. I haven’t gotten another MRI to prove that the lesions are gone or irrelevant because why go through that stress or pay that cost? Mostly, I haven’t gotten another MRI because I know what my body tells me is more important than what any test can tell me. And my body says we’re doing great.
Submitted by: Jody Berger
Thank you for this. Too often we assume that physicians know more about our bodies than we do.
They’re doing the best they know how, but there is reason that a Doc calls their business a “Practice”