Other demyelinating diseases??

[Tammy826]

What other demyelinating diseases are there besides MS? On my MRI it stated multiple sclerosis or other demyelinatinating  disease , so what others are there??

[Tammy826]

Hello & thanks for the info. I tested negative for Lymes & have only had a MRI of my head(a year ago). My symptoms are progressively getting worse & therfore feeling more desperate to know whats going on with me. I go back to my GP next Monday, is there any suggestions to what I need to do next?

[hbananas]

There's Neuromyelitis Optica (Devic's Disease), ADEM (Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis), Transverse Myelitis, Sarcoid, and Lyme, off the top of me wee head.  See why people take years to get diagnosed?

Devic's is a disease that affects the spinal cord and optic nerves only, but spares the brain.  It can have repeat attacks, like MS.

ADEM is a bad autoimmune reaction to a viral illness or vaccination that demyelinates places in the brain and spinal cord, but it's a one-time deal.

TM is inflammation of the spinal cord that is usually longish, about 3-8 vertebrae in length, that transverses the spinal cord--sometimes blocking all signals below the level of the lesion.  It is also usually a single episode.

I don't know much of anything about sarcoid or Lyme, except that they also cause demyelination.  There are several on this board who DO know a lot about these.  I hope you get the answers you need.