Um... have you been tested for Lyme disease? You live on the Eastern Seaboard. There are instances (not all that rare) of lyme arthritis and even neuro borreliosis (Borrelia burgdorferi is the bacteria that causes lyme disease). I'm not a physician, but I am a research scientist, and I can tell you what you probably already know, it sounds like there's a problem with your nerves. That's why they looked at MS. There are a number of things that can cause problems with the demylenation of nerves - MS is one of those things. Some are autoimmune, some are caused by disease causing organisms (a very rare viruse HTLV-1 can cause symptoms nearly indistinguishable from MS), and they are nearly always very tough to track down. Good luck! Keep after it. Do your own research and suggest things to your doctors. You know yourself better than doctors, and they sometimes tend to blow people off... if you are sick, you know it better than anyone. I'm sorry you are going through this.