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Originally Posted by bluemom
If I had an MRI without contrast months before my TN started (for another condition,) and it came out good, how important is it for me to get an MRI WITH contrast now? I don't want to spend more money if I don't have to.
bluemom
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Hi Bluemom,
I agree that about the "thin slice" (takes more pictures at smaller increments)MRI, and the contrast also helps. My neurologist did a regular MRI, and no TN showed, so they kept calling my pain "idiopathic". When I finally got to my neurosurgeon, he was bothered that they hadn't done one yet (thin slice w/contrast) and ordered it immediately. And there he found the compression - it had been "hiding between the slices" of the standard MRI. When he finally got in there, he found
3 compressions. So the MRI is definitely not the "be-all end-all" of diagnostic tools. I would definitely insist on the thin slice w/ contrast, though.
Lily