Between the fusion surgeries I had 2 laminectomies. One cervical and one lumbar.

A neurologist is where I should have gone first. The MS might've been found years earlier. But the carpal tunnel surgeon, before operating, figured I had something bigger going on. So he sent me to the neurosurgeons---and the rest is history. Nobody ever even mentioned MS as a possibility.

Again, good luck! It seems doctors often diagnose only with the quite narrow tunnel-vision of their own particular expertise.

Art