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okay everyone could some one please explain to me why this stuff is going on..i hate the fact that i cant get a answer to anything..i woke up monday morning at around 12 or so and my whole right size was seizing up on me..i had to call 911 very scary..took me in and did more mris and guess what nothing on them at all...AGAIN......i was laughing and crying at the same time..the poor dr didnt know if he should give me something to calm me down..i said no i was just so use to them not knowing stuff it didnt surprise me..lol..poor guy i felt kinda of bad for him..anyways i was releases mon morning so i could go to work..but what do ya all think about it...i get tremors in my right side now also...any thought s thanks again for reading

chris

We all have spasms with ms (much less now that I am on Lipitor) but your episode sounds different. I have heard of sleep paralysis where one awakes but the body doesn't. But there again, it isusually symmetrical

pardon me for being obtuse but are they doing peripheral mri as well as cns mri?

no big deal ask away with the questions except you will have to tell me the difference of the two test...normally i dont pay attention to the differnt ones just know they are mris...sorry and so bad on my part due to the fact i work in the medical field,,,lol..shhhhhh dont tell anyone i dont know the difference...

chris

hi i am under the impression that "peripheral nerves" have their own route to the brain outside the spinal cord and that "central" nerves conduct their messages via the spinal cord into the brain.

so if there are no mri findings in your case, i wondered if they meant both peripheral and central.

in my case they started with peripheral testing (non-mri) and went on to do the mri for central, which turned out to be the winner. so i never had a peripheral mri coz i guess there was no point?

good question...i have mris with and without contrast..on my head neck and upper and lower spine..so i have lost track on how many it is now..i think like 10 or more......so i wonder if they have done both of those kinds or not..i would guess the ones at the hospital were both just cause i had more time in the machine then normal...but will be getting those films here soon to take to my new neur dr...so i will ask him about that..thanks

chris

here's a thing..

http://www.nature.com/ncpneuro/journal/ ... o0017.html

Nature Clinical Practice Neurology (2005) 1, 45-53
doi:10.1038/ncpneuro0017
Received 10 June 2005 | Accepted 2 August 2005

Technology Insight: visualizing peripheral nerve injury using MRI
Martin Bendszus* and Guido Stoll

Correspondence *Department of Neuroradiology, University of Wrzburg, Josef-Schneider-Str. 11, D-97080 Wrzburg, Germany

Email bendszus@neuroradiologie.uni-wuerzburg.de


MRI has a pivotal role in the diagnosis of CNS disorders but has only recently been applied to diseases of the peripheral nervous system. Martin Bendszus and Guido Stoll discuss how MRI is being used to assess peripheral nerve lesions in experimental and clinical contexts, including recent advances in the development of novel contrast media.

THANK YOU FOR THE INFORMATION

One other thing. My husband went over 15 years with severe episodes of MS like symptoms and NO MRI's showed it. Optic nerve was scanned when his vision was 20/400. the DR that did it was real "up" on MS and such, so I imagined he scanned it right, but it showed nothing. We were told that in a small percentage of MS'rs, it does not show up in test. Gary was DX'd as clinical MS, it responded to the treatments but did not show up in test

THANK YOU FOR THAT INFORMATION ALSO..IT HELPS ME OUT GREATLY...JUST TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO GO THRU THE SAME STUFF...SAD AS IT MAY BE IT ALWAYS GIVES ME HOPE TO KNOW OTHER PEOPLE ARE GETTING THRU EVERYTHING WITH THIS DISEASE...

CHRIS