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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Southern California
Posts: 308
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Location: Southern California
Posts: 308
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Is this "good" news? (recent MRI)
Well, I got my second MRI done last Thursday evening. For those of you who have seen posts from me, I was dx in January "out of the blue" - and had several (multiple) lesions - they wouldn't give me a number. Some of the lesions were large - over 1cm or more. Didn't have a C-spine MRI at that time b/c they were not looking for MS! (Thought I had a pinched nerve, I swear.)
Anyhow...results of my second MRI - I think they are "mixed" -
Still have multiple lesions of high T2 and FLAIR signal intensity in a perpendicular orientation at the callososeptal interface as well as involving the subcortical white matter, bilateral cerebellar hemispheres, right middle cerebellar peduncle, and left pons.
However - this part is the good news:
Two of the larger lesions have decreased in size.
1 went from 2cm to 6mm. Another from 9mm to 5mm.
There are also 2 new lesions in the bifrontal subcortical white matter.
I think this is mostly good news - that two big ones shrunk? I wish I had this done before my first Tysabri infusion (which was on April 1). Oh well.
I am trying to get into program at Johns Hopkins - where they require "active inflammation" - which I think is what is meant by high T2 and FLAIR intensity. Is that correct?
Oh - and NO lesions on the C-spine!! woo hoo.
~Keri
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