mri scan of ms patient

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 .

I have been having horrible headaches on the side of my head and bottom of the back of my skull. This is why the scan was done.

So here is my question.....I had a MRI of head (1.5) in june which was clear, and then a MRI (3T) of my spine in August which showed a ruptued disc at C5/6 which is pressing on my spinal cord compressing it by 50 percent....had symptoms of shaky/uncoordinated hands, off balance, numbness, jaw/bottom lip burning......saw a MS specialist in August....everything has come back negative for 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......

Dissemination in time can be demonstrated by a new T2 or gadolinium-enhancing lesion on a follow-up MRI, with reference to a baseline scan, regardless of when the baseline MRI was obtained. The earlier versions specified that the reference scan be performed at least 30 days after the initial clinical event; this is no longer a requirement.

Numerous punctate subcentimeter foci of hyperintensity within the white matter of the frontal and parietal lobes. This is unusual in a patient of this your age and raise numerous possibilities. I am 22 years old. They have tested me for MS, came back negative. CSF: Negative. OCB: Ngative MBP: Negative Stroke in the Young Panel: wrCRP: 6.

If you have an abnormal neuro exam, combined with a patient history that follows MS, and all the MS mimics have been eliminated, then you can be diagnosed. Neuros like to see the damage from the disease. That's why some people stay in limbo for as long as they do, because instead of using the MRI as a tool, to see this damage, they misinterpreted the McDonald Criteria and demand that you have to have the typical MS lesions in the typical spots that MS likes to present.

This has just been diagnosed from images received from an MRI scan and patient reports of occassional sensitivity to limbs as well as a "lazy" leg following exercise.

MRI Protocol for the Diagnosis and Follow-up of MS” published in June 2003, states that for “Established MS”, gadolinium is ‘optional’ in baseline brain MRI. Can you explain why the use of gadolinium would be recommended for suspected MS but only considered to be optional in an established diagnosis?

If they are looking for MS it can take years. Once I had a MRI show MS it was two years until I was diagnosed. I had $10,000 of tests 7 years ago. It took six years to be diagnosed with cancer. Our medical system has a major flaw too much specialization among doctors. Few see the big picture the human being. They see a leg, an arm, or a head.

I recently had a CAT scan, and no cause of the tingling or headaches could be found. My doctor is sending me to a neurologist to have an MRI, to exclude "primary demyelination". My doctor hasn't mentioned MS, although has talked about 'damage' to nerve ends, however my own research seems to point in that direction. Any thoughts?

1.5T MRI with and without gadolinium contrast Spinal tap/lumbar puncture to check your cerebral spinal fluid for oligoclonal bands If the results aren't conclusive, then they may send you to get a VEP and EMG.

Oh my goodness, today my dad received the results of his bone scan, via e-mail, which I think is a crappy way to receive bad news. He has multiple foci of abnormal intensity all the way through his skeleton, skull, arms, ribs, shoulders, pelbi, spine, you name it. OMG! how did this happen so fast? He had been getting massages could they have made it worse? Is there any hope that once treatment begins he can be helped for a while? SO devastated.

MRI s can be a useful tool for doctors, and can diagnose many illnesses (MS being one of them, as they can scan the brain). But if they are so good, why do hospitals only have one or two of them? The main reason is that they are VERY expensive. MRI equipment varies in cost, depending on the strength of the scanner. Scanners with more strength produce more detailed images so these scanners usually cost more.

The default move for neuros is to do an MRI, not a SPECT scan, and since MRI is diagnostic of MS, the neuros get stuck in a loop of MRI-->MS-->MRI-->MS .... They don't look outside the loop, so there's no attempt to do a comparative diagnosis between Lyme and MS, since Lyme ain't even on the radar for a nonLLMD.

ll see a lot come up eg vascular, migraine, Lyme, high blood pressure etc. MS is a dx of clinical sx + medical history + test results eg MRI etc so alone the MRI would not indicate enough information or even point towards a possibility dx of MS at this stage.

You do present with a very convincing case of classic MS, in MY opinion. Of course I am not a Neurologist and never claimed to be. But if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it IS a duck. A saying we have over here in the States. Maybe you have heard of it. The pin ***** pain you have in the ends of your toes, sounds like something I experience periodically myself. It comes out of the blue and I will have several episodes per day, lasting a few seconds.

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