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Old 08-17-2010, 10:50 PM #8
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How is getting a MRI "better safe than sorry?

MRIs do not necessarily correlate to symptoms, sometimes it does. You can be feeling fine and the MRI might show new or more lesions - you could be having new or increasing symptoms and the MRI does not show changes from your last one.

It's always best to treat the patient NOT the MRI.

I had a MRI during the diagnostic process in 1985 and never had another MRI until 2005. The only thing the 2005 MRI did was confirm my clinical diagnosis, which was NEVER in doubt, from 1985. At this time I have not had a MRI since the one in 2005.

I believe most neuro's do MRIs once a year when you are on one of the DMDs, at least my neuro does.
Truth! I had a repeat MRI done 1 year after my diagnosis (with MRIs at the time) because of the 'ball of pain' that developed in my left side of my head. Well, I figured a huge lesion was brewing there and this meant relapse.

Little did I expect an MRI with results showing very dimmed/reduced lesions, and in some cases, what my doctor said looked like healing even. No new lesion to explain the mess of pain in my head that had developed, and the end result? Trip to the pain doctor and a prescription.

So did I need that MRI? Not at all. It was at my insistence that it got done... I don't think I'd even bother with another now unless my doctor ordered it.
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