When it comes to detecting MS the doctor in question must consider a series of more than 50 symptoms. In detecting Multiple Sclerosis, many of these symptoms also occur in other diseases and therefore the doctor may refer the patient to a neurologist at first, in order to determine that the symptoms are not caused by a different type of ailment. The doctor will have to rule out quite a few of these illnesses and for that reason it may take some time to get a definitive diagnosis of MS as additional testing will have to be done and symptoms will have to be checked against very specific criteria.

It is important to remember that there are no quick ways to determine if a person has MS by running a simple blood test. There are a number of different tests that are used to make such a diagnosis and …