Thanks, Wiz.
I have read that they can shrink (somewhat), so I guess if it was small enough, it might become difficult to detect over time.
Did you have any spinal cord symptoms since 2005?
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Originally Posted by hollym
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.
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My eldest daughter tore a ligament (I think that's what it was) in ball (she had to give up the "catcher" position) and was given a MRI for that. The specialist said that the test results came back clear, but that he didn't believe that. He said that based on her symptoms/his exam, she has a this injury, and that 95% of the time when he opens someone up with these symptoms (and a neg MRI) they have what he suspected. She never did go for surgery though ... but she may have to some time in the future.
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Originally Posted by april1848
I was sent to get a C-spine MRI after my diagnosis, which showed 7 lesions. I haven't had any MRIs since then, of anything. When I do, it will be interesting to see if those 7 lesions are really there, and if they've changed. From the little that I know, it seems that most of my symptoms could be due to spinal rather than brain lesions, but who knows?
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That's a lot of spinal lesions, April!! Hopefully they are small one's and will stay that way!
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Originally Posted by pud's friend
My spinal lesions are huge and clear and obvious on my mri. 1cm at C2 and two at T11 T12.
I had an incidential finding of a 'right posterolateral focal discosteophyte at T7 T8 indenting the right side of the thecal sac touching the spinal cord'.
Looks like a great big chink of bone pressing where it shouldn't. Incidential to them maybe but certainly not to me!!  |
Yeah, mine are too, Pud. Have you had a lot of difficulty from them? Do you have brain lesions too? Have you had ON? Have they ever checked you for NMO/Devic's?
Loved your comment "incidental to them"
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Cherie
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