music,

Try to think of it this way. This MRI is not looking for an Acoustic Neuroma. It is looking to rule out an Acoustic Neuroma. Most of the diagnostic procedures related to mTBI are to rule things out. Health care these days is about ruling things out, not finding a cause. Differential diagnosis is about finding what is and what is not present.

To put it in perspective, many times, doctors make things worse when they do these tests because they find something totally unrelated to the symptoms and get sidetracked trying to treat something new that has never caused a problem. This is the inherent problem with defensive healthcare.

If we keep the doctors comments in context with this tendency to practice defensive healthcare, we can take some of the scare out of the situation. We want to find out what is wrong. the doctors want to make sure something serious is not wrong.

You should be fine. Remember that anxiety is not good for PCS.

My best to you.