Why so long

  It's kind of odd after going though so many sites on the net and I can trace many of my symptoms all the way back to 94 and I'm just now getting tested for MS and all along I have been complaining about extreme muscle pain, brain shocks, tremors and loss of my fine motor skills in my hands, loss of balance and daily fatigue and so on but I guess at the time my main problem was with my anxiety so most of the treatment went to that and blaming the fatigue on CFS as well as CNS damage for a lot of the other stuff, but it would really be nice just to put a name to it so I can move on as I see it life not going to change much at lease I hope lol

  I do get blood work done every 3 months for my diabetes but I only had it for 4 years now where the other stuff has been there for 13 teen years with new things popping up. Well I'm just going to stop rambling on

  Cowboy up

Just wanted to say "hello" to another Alaskan. MS is just "one" of the things they are currently testing me for. Have been tested for multiple areas for the last 1 1/2 years and in the process of putting together everything to go "outside" to Virginia Mason in Seattle per the recommendations of the general practicioner, internal med, and neuro docs up here. I'm a nurse currently on medical leave, neuro problems scare me too much to practice. I live in Kasilof right on the river. Husband and I own a lodge on the river. Anyway, just wanted to say HI...was wondering where you are located in AK?

Well, it's a small world.  Have some good friends that have a B&B on the Kenai in Soldotna.  I prefer the Kasilof (quieter...drift boat only) ok, smaller kings, but still lots of them...and I can walk right outside my door and down to the dock (we actually have the only one on the Kasilof..a floating dock that we just got out of the river a couple of days ago for the winter) Sorry to know of your symptoms...I guess I can relate.  Do you see docs in Soldotna or Anchorage?  I have both and also go to AK spine institute.  Have you been tested for lyme?  I know that includes a multitude of symptoms.  I ordered testing supplies from igenex in California to be tested and results were basically borderline.  Some positive bands but not enough to be CDC  positive, so the docs around here won't recognise it.  But I was told by the lab that my steroid injections to my spine and feet would cause a lower immune system and most likely alter my antibody response to the testing causing false negative and indeterminate results.  Anyway, depending on your symptoms, you might look into that.  I know they say there are no ticks in AK, but I've only been here just over a year and lived in many other areas, don't know where you are originally from and lyme can be chronic for a very long time.  I'm going to wait long enough for the steroids to be out of my system and test again.  The positive bands I did have were specific for lyme disease, so that still may be the answer, but I can't convince docs to try a trial of treatment based on that.  Wishing you well....take care...