[EddieF]

Friend of mine had heat stroke multiple times. This one he hasn't come out of yet and it's been 3+ months. It's effected his mood, anxiety, hands shake at times. This is his & mine compared. I have MS.

edit - notice his brain shrinkage vs mine + center enlarging, also uploaded larger image

[EddieF]

Was searching for possible ccsvi issues in me. At least I learned how to make pretty pictures which my dr's enjoy. Makes for good Ty infusion show & tell.

[EddieF]

White spots are what to look for on this type of (don't know correct term), filter.
I believe the 1st post is Alzheimer's in my friend's brain.

[SallyC]

I have never seen my MRIs.

[EddieF]

In that order from top to bottom. The center can enlarge with age I believe. Notice mine's smallest, father's medium, friend's largest. Shouldn't be that way.
Sally, i'm shocked to hear you say that! Get your mri's on cd and i'll give a "how to" instruction when I can. How bout you all do it and let's "see" our disease.
I'm good with CT's & PET's as well, will upload some soon.

[carbreezy]

.. I have only seen my MRI while at the 3 Neuro Visits.

I would love to be able to view them at home. However i have tried to look at them but they seem to Not be compatable with my Mac Book Pro (Apple) computer..

[EddieF]

Happy Halloween. Thin slice MRI which is why it's smooth, no steps. More slices per inch. Me playing with opacitiy settings trying to see veins. Brain MR's always stop a couple vert's to high to see what I want.

[EddieF]

As you can see, lesion(s) haven't changed much here yet numbness in hands, mouth, arms, small muscle twitches approx 4" in length & 1/4" wide on diff parts of my bod keep growing.

I wish you all would get your MR's on cd, learn this program & post photos for us all to learn/compare.
Many neuros just read report written by radiologist which, read your own sometime & see why i'm stressing we all do this.

Using free Onis software which is the best i've found & the only that allows importing images/series/studies from multiple cd's. That's key right there.

I'll post instructions when needed.

[Koi13]

Speaking of MRI's, I am scheduled for a brain and spine MRI. Doctor states that it will be WITHOUT contrast. Is is better to to both? With and without contrast?

[EddieF]

Koi, asked my neuro if I could have ONLY contrast cause they're the images I use for seeing lesions & w/o images don't do much for me and, why pay extra and spend extra time if w/o doesn't help me much? He told me contrast shows active lesions, w/o shows old. Don't take that as gospel cause I didn't research it. Certainly demand w & w/o if you're not allergic to dye.

My avatar (look left) IS however made from w/o contrast slices since they only thin sliced w/o. I was excited to get my 2013 MR last week thin sliced w w/o contrast but the typical bleep'n know it all tech said "we follow MS protocol", which turned out to be regular slices. Called asking if they forgot to put thin slice series on cd (as they have in past) and she said no. Dr has to call, they went by script. I asked "so what should he write? thinner slices?" Thin slice boxes were checked, guess that wasn't clear enough.