You are so right, Cherie, about regular spinal MRI's. My neuro who is the director of the largest MS clinic here doesn't believe in them. He says it is too hard to image with accuracy. He will not send me for a spinal MRI but writes up that I have a degenerative spinal cord syndrome in the C-Spine. He can see evidence of the damage on exam, but doesn't believe an MRI would show anything.

A previous MS specialist also told me that he saw evidence of spinal cord lesions in my neuro exam and he did send me for spinal MRI's and said that the fact that there was nothing showed up meant nothing to him. He said it just showed that it wasn't a disk problem. He felt that there were sub-MRI level lesions that just couldn't be seen.