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Originally Posted by chrishadms
As a neuro explained to me the charts are great but what he needs to see is this: Do you have lesions that enhance and then at times do not? This means your MS is Relapsing when they enhance and it's Remitting when they stop. Relapsing Remitting is a clinical term used for the MRI but can be exchanged with physical symptom recovery as well. It's why the chart is developed to establish some kind of relationship between the two. Even though we know MRI does not correlate with disability.
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Either you misunderstood him, or he doesn't know what he's talking about.
It does NOT mean you are relapsing when you have enhancing lesions. It means there is an inflammatory process going on with the disease (which can happen with any category) . . .
If they took a MRI of our brain every other week, they would see those Gad-enhancing lesions blinking like a Xmas tree (moreso with RRMS). Whether they cause us any problems, ie. a relapse, is another story. Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. When they do, they may choose to try to reduce the inflammation by treating us with steroids. When they don't cause us problems, we don't even usually know one way or another, because we don't go into the doc complaining.
Gad enhancing lesions does NOT equal Relapsing Remitting.
Cherie
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