Many doctors just seem to love being decisive and dogmatic. I can't tell you how many utterly ridiculous diagnoses I've received in the past forty years. In the one case that to me at least could have been serious I had it checked out (Hep C - don't have it though), but in the others I did nothing at all and have never, ever been found, ultimately, by any other doctor as actually having the disease: MS, myasthenia gravis, prostate cancer, tuberculosis, mitral valve prolapse, etc., etc.

In those kinds of diagnoses (and I'm no Christian Scientist, I do actually have SOME real diseases) there was just something about the doctor (who in every case I refused to go back to) and something about the pompous way he (it was always a male doctor) pretended to know everything, that made me absolutely sure the diagnosis was nonsense. I would under no circumstances recommend this as a standard course of action to anyone else. If you have a trusted doctor, then trust him or her. If any doctor seems reasonably in touch with reality and aware of his or her own fallibility, I'd trust them. I've just met too many doctors who think they're God, and I'd never trust such a person.

So, Rhiannon, I do understand your anger and your feeling of having been taken for a ride. If I were you, even now, I'd double and triple check that new diagnosis of MS. AND DON'T, FOR THE LORD'S SAKE, TELL THE SECOND AND THIRD DOCTORS THAT THEY'RE SECOND AND THIRD!! If you do, chances are they'll tip in favor of the MS diagnosis without really giving it an independent evaluation, which is what you want.

Take care!