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05-11-2007, 07:17 AM | #1 | |||
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Please remember that I am not a well informed or educated person but I've recently been a bit through the mill with "lesion" and MRIs,
I developed terrible headaches in the late 80s' and started having what I called "spells" but doctors ignored my complaints. A grand mal seizure in 1990 brought on my first MRI ........ Oh - this story is too long. I've continued having migraines (taking all the triptans), having seizures (complex partials) and another MRI in 2005 showed a lesion (tumor) that was removed Feb., 2006. I have had more MRI every three months since then, PET scans, neuro psych testing, yadda yadda. No doctor has ever said anything about a migraine or any headache causing a lesion or having anything at all to do with one. They have said it's possible my tumor was there at birth. |
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05-15-2007, 10:07 AM | #2 | ||
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A migraine can show up on a mri I believe it shows as a lesion.
But even with epilepsy there are lesions that aren't tumors, so I don't know that its something to worry about either way till you see the doctor. My son has had many MRI's and he has lesions, but they are part of his epilepsy that he has had since he was 7 he is now 15. My other son has migraines and has a lesion, or place that shows on the mri, that they feel just shows he has migraines. Donna |
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05-18-2007, 06:50 PM | #3 | ||
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ok the doc said the spot was probly migraine related, definately not MS, and then ordered a caratoid adn transcranial doppler ultrasound to check for hardening of the arteries... does that mean he thinks I am stroke prone?
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12-05-2007, 12:01 AM | #4 | ||
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I think people with migraines are stroke prone. that's why no one wants to insure us...
I don't know if this applies to you, but my migraines and fatigue turned out to be something called Hashimoto's Encephalopathy. It is a rare complication of autoimmune thyroiditis and is treatable with steroids. It is diagnosed by elevated thyroid antibodies. Most people with HE have normal thyroid hormone levels and so are never diagnosed with thyroid disease unless they come across one of the few neurologists who knows about HE and checks the antibodies. I have a couple of spots on my MRI- on the left side. My headaches are all on the left, too. The radiologist told me they were perivascular changes from either migraine or hypertension (which i don't have). Interestingly enough, when I was reading all the HE articles after my diagnosis, I found out that these spots are present in HE too. And under the microscope, HE patients have inflammation around the blood vessels in their brain. i.e. "perivsacular changes" Again, I don't know if any of this applies to you, but I wanted to share my story just in case. It took 8 years to figure out my MS-like illness/CFS was actually HE. Best Wishes! |
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