Happy, as I recall from my MRI's that is they way the contrast is done. My first brain MRI was abnormal, I didn't see the report until after I ditched the first neuro though. He mistook the abnormalities for small strokes, even though the report clearly stated that " given the location a demyelinating disease is not entirely excluded ".

He did though order an MRI of my cervical spine, with and without contrast, which clearly showed lesions. He then decided on a lumbar pucture, and against my input said it didn't need to be done under a Floroscope, well he screwed that up trying for 45 minutes to do it in his office. After his failure to draw enough fluid for a proper test? He said I will have to send you over to the hospital for one under the scope. Wrong dude, you had your chance, the needle comes out and we part company. He had also refused to order an MRI of the Thoracic spine, if you are going to start down a path? Finish the walk?

The second neuro? He was part two of dumb and dumber, he sent me to the Cleveland Clinic for a Lumbar Puncture under the Floroscope, when I went to his office at the hospital to get the results? His nurse started wheeling me to have another! Stop the bus lady, I am here to get the results of the one done to weeks ago! He has on your chart you are to have an L/P! Wrong!

So then into his office, he had to call the Cleveland Clinic to have the results for a procedure he had ordered faxed over. The he gave me a dx of Transverse Myelitis, and was unable to answer questions about why my T/M didn't fit the pattern, and made the statement that no further testing was needed or necessary. That just provoked me to ask for a refferal to a real doctor, which seemed to shock him. He did comply and sent me to the Cleveland Clinic's Mellen MS center, and after the proper testing the real doctor there agreed with what I had been telling the clowns for a year and a half.

The first year and a half was spent trying to figure out why my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome dx didn't really seem to fit.

I hope you have better luck.