mri scan with ms

Hi fellow Ozzie, welcome to our little MS community, Please keep in mind that we are lay people, not professionally trained in reading MRI's, opinions are generally from personal experience, acquired knowledge and interest, my two cents......

my wife had a mri scan on her neck the result came back as follows mri on the C- spine showd minor degenerative changes with a normal spinal cord there disc lesion at C6/C7 which corrugates the postrior longitudinal ligament by the spinal cord .

While it's tempting to look at the MRI and try to track down your deficits based upon the lesion activity, don't bother. Visible lesion activity in the brain compared to actual symptoms rarely matches up. All I can tell you is that your lesion load is typical for MS. The only thing I've noticed over the years is that for patients with an MRI with many lesions, the MS tends to be less active or debilitating. Patients with more symptoms tend to have an MRI with few lesions.

What more can you see on and MRI with contrast vs. an MRI without contrast?

I would never have a Cardiologist rule out MS after viewing your MRI. Fowarded the MRI as Theasian stated to a Neurologist, especially one who deals with alot of MS patients.

I had an mri scan with and without contrast in September and will have another on this September. Nothing showed up on the mri scan.

Is it necessary to have more than one MRI scan done. I have only ever had the one scan, 15 yrs ago which was when I was given my official dx, despite having several episodes/relapses since. Initially told I had RRMS now being told I have SPMS with relapses.

As I live in Australia I checked on the web to see what hospitals have the 3T, there are a few interstate and one a the University in my capital city and there are other hospitals with MRI scanners but it doesn't say what sort. I think I will ring where I had the scan and ask them. It will probably take them a week to find out, they are fairly hopeless. I will talk to my GP and see if she can find out and send me somewhere that uses the stronger one.

Bubbles, I would call the doc's office and let them know it says ct scan instead of MRI. MRI's are needed for MS findings. It could be a mix up or they may have a reason for ct scan. I've had a sinus ct scan to find cyst etc.but the brain and c-spine was both MRI's. Still lifting you in prayer and best of wishes for answers.

Can you please explain my MRI of the brain done with and without contrast please: On T2 weighted and FLAIR sequences, there are multiple subcentimeter round ovoid foci of high signal in the right frontal lobe periventricular white matter, in addition to several subcentimeter lesions in the periventricular and subcortical white matter in the left frontal lobe and the subcortical white matter in the posterior right frontal lobe.

New to the forum and was looking for help in finding the cause of recent symptoms. I am 44yr/male in relatively good health. Was diagnosed with high cholesterol in fall of 2011 and had been on statins (simvastatin) for almost 3 years. Shortly after starting this drug I was diagnosed with idiopathic angioedema (random body parts swelling). Was assured by my family doc and allergist that this could not be from the statins....

Non-Lyme specialists tend to use MRI only, and the fuzzy spots that show up on an MRI look like MS to a doc who is not familiar with Lyme .... as many docs are not. In your situation, I personally would find a Lyme specialist for a second opinion. My Lyme doc used a SPECT scan and it was very helpful in diagnosis, so then I was treated for Lyme and got well. Wishing the same for you!

Do you also go to see a neurologist - is that who ordered your previous brain MRI? Also wondering if they used MS protocol when they did the MRI? I know that it sometimes takes a long time to get a diagnosis of MS. They need to rule out everything else that might be causing your symptoms before they can really say it's MS.

I had my first MRI scan today with contrast of brain and spine, suspected MS. Have been told results take about two weeks. If it was a tumour would I hear sooner. I live in Britain .

CT scans are not used to diagnose MS. MRIs are used with contrast and MS protocal. I am not sure what they are looking for.

primarily, did they compare this new scan with the one from 2 months ago? was there really inflammation in the first scan, and if so, where did it go? is there a possibility it might return? did the steroids make it go away? i think i will mail him a letter since i am supposed to be in contact with him in 2 weeks and we can talk more then.

CT scans are worthless when looking for lesions caused by MS. MRI using MS Protocol with and without contrast dye, is the only way to get a clear view of lesions. Preferably on a 3T magnification MRI. The entire spine should be looked at, cervical through thoracic. I personally believe that if they are going to examine this much of the spine, that the Lumbar region should be looked at as well, as it sometimes shows things wrong with our spines, such as bulging disks, etc.

The way I understand it is a CT scan shows finer detail that an MRI doesn't. I think the CT scan is good for small things like blood vessels and what your doctor was looking for. I do NOT know this for sure. I just remember hearing that an MRI looks at things in a different way than a CT scan. I would post this question under a new post so maybe others will see it and can answer. I have thought about seeing if there is a T3 in my area.

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