MRI results....Can Anyone Help?
 

I have recently had an mri due to a migraine that started April 13, and has carried on. I was on steroids which took it away, then it came back. So then put on topomax 25 mg only for now and my headache finally went away after 8 days. But I hate Topomax! It is the second go round and it makes me even meaner than I already am! :o So I quit it and 2 days later wham, headache back. I took a maxalt, started the topamax again, and an ultracet.

Anyway about the mri. I go to see the neuro again next week but I picked up the report from the mri place and it says: Single non specific T2 bright lesion in left mid parietal lobe indicates some type of old insult....does not appear to be part of any white matter disease... brain function ok....

Well I had an mri in 2003 to rule out MS , I also have Fibro and CFS or something.....and nothing was there. All I can find about lesions is indicative about MS! He also ordered an eye check for eye pressure I guess? I don't even know except they had to squeeze me in at 7:30 in morning. I can not do mornings! YUK YUK YUK > Today before the pain hit really hard I felt all hot and dizzy and weak in kmart it was only 75 degrees.

Another note: I am 48 and since my 20s these headaches were always called sinus till they finally realized they were migraines. the funny thing is the Biaxin always fixxed them! So much weirdness with me. Any help here would be great!

migranes can cause lesions, I think

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.

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

Thanks everyone,
 

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?

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!