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I have heard that most bone metastasis from breast cancer are osteolytic and might not show up well on a bone scan. Is this true? I have been having pain in my pelvis and my family doctor ordered an MRI of my lower spine which was normal, but told me that an MRI of my pelvis was overkill. The pain has has not gone away and I cannot get in to see my oncologist for another month. I feel like I have "cried wolf" so many times with aches and pains that the doctors brush me off now.

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 .

i have had done mri scan done it shows one small disc is moved but doctor said to me is not worth to operate he recommend massage of spine and back muscles.my gp will send me to neurology to check nerve system but im still concern about doctors in uk .

Hi, Had you had an MRI or CAT scan, as these are the tests that will show up any problems with your back. You need your doctor to find out what is wrong so it can be treated. Chronic back pain is hell, I suffer badly myself. Finding out what is wrong and if something can be done is your number one right now. It is the only way you will know what's wrong and how to treat it. I hope they get a scan sorted for you soon. Keep posting.

Customary and Reasonable Charge for the Denver Area is about $900 per body part for an MRI. So $900 for brain, $900 for C-spine and $900 for t-spine. List price is much higher. Most imaging centers can be negotiated (shhh! don't tell too many people) down to the CRC amount. Still more expensive than the UK. There are way too many middlemen and "fiscal intermediaries" in the US health delivery model.

Hi everyone! Hope everyone is feeling good today! I got a call this morning, finally approving me to get my MRI. I have the lab sheet and as I glanced at it, I noticed that the doctor only one spot- meaning that it looks to me like the MRI will be of my head only. IT also says w/wo contrast--does that mean "with OR without contrast"? or "with AND without contrast"?

m getting the same run around on my spine cyst that i had on my kidney ..my last mri showed the spine cyst has grown about i cm in the last year it is now 2.6x1.6x1.6 there is scalloping and enlargmentof the spinal canal also nerve root compromise cannot be excluded. Would you think my back pain could be caused by this cyst also with the history of cancer do you think it could also contain cancer cells as my kidney cyst showed no signs until it was removed, tested..

I get MRIs (brain, c-spine, t-spine) with gadolinium on a 3T machine at least once a year, sometimes more often if I'm having new symptoms. I am presently having some new symptoms and my neurologist would like to obtain a scan. I have had more lesions appear over time but not one in the past five years has enhanced. I wonder about the technique used at the hospital I go to, there is no time between administration of contrast and the scanning.

U deff want a true chiari specialist to review this for u...and they will want a MRI done of the brain w/wo contrast. a cervical spine MRI, a thoracic and lumbar spine MRI...these help rule out the formation of a syrinx and tethered cord. And u want to rule out disk issues as well as ehlers-danlos, sleep apnea, ....

on the white matter of her brain and suggested we follow up with an MRI. The MRI was performed this morning with the results being the same...... The largest of the "spots" was about 2cm and the others were smaller. Our familty doctor mentioned that due to the location of the "spots", they are not typically located in the areas that my wife has them, and of course didn't seem to alarmed of what had been found.

hi there...I'm feeling better today,,, had a long cry yesterday and feel much better today...just wondering since I'm heading to have a whole spine MRI...what reasoning would that be...the specialist just went on and on yest...so quickly that I could ask why...and VEP..what exactly will that tell? also a bladder scan...is that a ultra scan type thing.. she is also checking my autoimmune things again...does that sometimes change and show antibodies? I know we are not Dr...

Hi :) and thanks for awnsering my post :) Yes i can see now i hadvthe old one. I was diagnosed in 2004 without supportive MRI, clinical diagnosis. I am having symptoms at the moment and want to have a MRI. But want to make sure it is done in the best possible way, also i am a self pay patient. My insurance company have refused to pay out my critical illness policy because i am not showing anything on MRI ! So i need to find these leasions !

I have just had my appt through for a MRI with contrast of the head and spine. I am feeling very anxious as I am very clausaphobic and will be in the scanner for about an hour. If I get sedated my appt will be longer. How small is the tube?

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.

I hate how the insurance companies dictate what the doctor orders. It can and does happen this way and I see it personally not only through testing but getting the medication that works best for my fatigue. I've been on Provigil for three years and has made a huge difference in regards to fatigue. Now, the insurance company decides that they won't cover it. I haven't found anything that works as well as the Provigil.

He gave his diagnosis and then I had a MRI scan. I was young at the time so didn’t really see the seriousness of it and my parents couldn’t afford a follow up scan. I took medication (cataflam mostly for the pain if it was serious) and I stopped Ballet lessons and then stopped basketball as well. The problems with my back stopped then and has been ok for the past few years. Now however, it has started up again and won’t seem to go away even with rest and cataflam.

00 this morning. The Tech told me that they don't use the dye for this scan unless she sees something. After the scan. she rolled me out and said she had talked to the radiologist and he wanted the dye and to scan my thoracic area. Impression from Radiologist report:Extensive areas of increased T2 signal with the thoracic spinal cord. My doctor had this information by noon to me today and said he had faxed a copy to my neuro.....and I thought not again.

Hello, I suggest seeing your GP, he/she will probably order either a CT scan or MRI to determine what is going on and then prescribe the correct treatments.

I do have a copy of my MRI. I also had a CT scan done, both of which I have copies of (the CT scan was because the drs thought I had a blocked sinus cavity). I have yet to have any type of scan of my spine though, just brain.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging The above link tells you pretty much everything you didn't want to know about MRIs. I had a brain MRI one time, I had to be sedated because I was afraid of it, they even have a little mirror in there so you can see out of it, sort of claustrophobic in the machine, and they had a microphone and radio in there so I could talk to the techs. When the machine started up, it was VERY loud, surprised me, kind of made a bumping racket.

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