We've all offended someone on the forum lately....
Babinski seems so sinister to me. Do not dismiss it. Pursue it. Good luck and feel well.
Meds do mess you up when titrating up or down sometimes. I'm sorry you felt the need to apologize. Hate that feeling. Feel better,
Zilla*
Thanks so much for your comment...I appreciate all the advice I get on here, without it, I just do not know if I would be able to cope.
Ahhh...the madness of meds! I really understand the emotional lability that comes not just with +/- meds but also MS, and other neurological diseases themselves.
A Positive Babinski response (upward movement of the great toe with noxious stimulus applied to the proper part of the sole of the foot) is always abnormal after infancy (around 2 years). Being bilateral is no better than just being on one side. I don't understand the reason someone would say different. Yes, a positive Babinski is a sign of a problem in the central nervous system, spine or brain. It is a clear indication that something is wrong centrally, so the diagnosis purely of Peripheral Neuropathy would not be correct. I can't explain the "why it works that way" of either the Babinski or the Hoffman signs, so....don't ask.
Because the general (and sometimes exact) location of where the different nerves run, on each side of the body and from the brain, the side of the Babinski being abnormal can tell you which side of the CNS to look at, but the problem is that it could be on many different levels. A spinal problem will cause a Babinski, but so will certain types of brain lesions. In the spine the problem will be on the same side as the + sign, but in the brain it will be on the opposite side. In MS, it really doesn't matter.
Also because some symptoms can appear and disappear in MS, so can some physical signs, like the Babinski.
For the people in the Land of Limbo having positive physical findings, like a + Babinski, is proof that the doc's should look further. Too often these signs are rejected by dense docs and they still say the problem is psychiatric.
Quix