![]() ![]() “Misdiagnosis in MS has been an issue that’s been talked about for 40 years,” adds Jeffrey Cohen, MD, director of experimental therapeutics at the Mellen MS Center of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Sometimes it’s necessary to observe the patient and their imaging to try to make a more definitive decision on whether they have MS or not,” says Dr. “Then sometimes there are cases where it’s a little more ambiguous we are considering the possibility of MS but haven’t come to a definitive decision yet. There are situations when it’s fairly clear that someone does - or doesn’t - have MS, says Devon Conway, MD, a neurologist at the Mellen MS Center in Cleveland. To accurately diagnose MS, many other possible causes must be considered and excluded. ![]() To figure out what’s causing possible MS symptoms, doctors look at your medical history, the results of a neurological exam, and a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan - and sometimes do a spinal tap (also called a lumbar puncture). And to complicate matters, the symptoms you do have may resemble those of some other conditions. Also, not everyone has all of the common symptoms of MS, such as numbness, tingling, pain, fatigue, and heat sensitivity. These errors in diagnosis likely result from the fact that there is no single test that can determine an MS diagnosis conclusively. In fact, a study published in May 2019 in the journal Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders suggested that nearly 1 in 5 people with other neurologic conditions are mistakenly diagnosed with MS. Getting a correct diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) can be a challenge. ![]()
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