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Join Date: Jan 2008
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 106
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Anyone Else With Brain Atrophy Too???
Just wondered if anyone else here has brain atrophy with their MS?
My brain atrophy showed up almost two years ago...at the time it was relatively small, thank God, but it was there. 
I'm glad that doctors are just now starting to realize that brain atrophy, like lesions, can also be an MS thing. Two years ago, when my former (puzzled!) PCP first found my atrophy and I Googled "brain atrophy + MS" (due to my suspicions!) I couldn't find anything---now, it's all over the Internet!
Of course, lots of other things can cause brain atrophy, but none of those applied to me, so that's why it was a shock when my docs found it---until my wonderful neuro explained the MS connection.
The brain atrophy was NOT the reason for my DX---there are lots of other things going on as well!--but it's interesting that they're now recognizing it, in addition to other problems and not just taken by itself, as being symptomatic of MS.
Anyway, Avonex and Tysabri are both claiming to stop progression in brain atrophy as well as lesions now...so they've gotten on the bandwagon too.
I'll hopefully be starting TY in a few weeks---I'm really anxious to start! In my pre-TY MRI next week, we're going to see if the darn thing has progressed at all--sure hope not.
At any rate, I was just curious as to whether anyone else here had the atrophy thing going on too! I feel like printing a T-shirt: "Got Brain Atrophy?" 
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