I personally believe that a good MS Specialist can tell just by a clinical exam what Neurological disease you have. People have been diagnosed before MRI's, before LP's, before VEP's were used for testing.
They just use these tools to support their findings or for proof to our ins companies, so they will pay for drugs and treatments. JMO
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You are not your MRI
Don't Feel Doomed
MRI applies only indirectly. You may benefit eventually from new research, but that's a slow process. More likely, your neurologist may use MRI to assess whether your treatment is helping you adequately. Accordingly, your neurologist may be motivated in part by your MRI to make changes in your treatment.
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But it's the clinical picture-how you function when examined (your eyes, strength, balance, and so on)-that speaks 1,000 words. As Randall Schapiro, MD, has publicly said, "You have to treat the person, not the MRI."
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MS is a mysterious disease of frustrations and paradoxes. There are many blank spaces left in science's understanding of this disease. That's where hope may reside.
MRI doesn't tell your fortune. Lesions change over time, sometimes for the better Even when the actual nerve, not just its coating, has been damaged, brains can learn new tricks and so can you. Don't feel doomed by your MRI. It's simply a picture of how your brain was on
one particular day. It might not be any more lastingly important than wearing mismatched socks for a formal portrait.
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