Two MRIs showing different things
Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2018 7:06 am
We have run into a hiccup with diagnosis. I had a pretty rough episode in 2015. Double vision, couldn't walk properly, pain, burning, tingling in legs that felt heavy and uncoordinated. After 17 days it stopped and I could walk but my legs were weak. So I got an MRI and had Evoked Potential.
MRI showed several small peri ventricular white matter lesions. Report said MS was possible and would need to be ruled out.
I was good for a few years up until last September. I started to have very serious attacks of vertigo and numbness and tingling mostly in the left side of my body. Then I got tightness in my chest all around the thoracic area, front and back. Had my heart check and it's all good.
December 9th I had an attack of vertigo in the shower, blacked out and fell. My husband insisted it looked like a seizure. I could not walk talk or see properly. The ER staff insisted I was drunk or on drugs even doing a full panel for alcohol and numerous street drugs. The next day I had another attack of vertigo in my doctors office. He gave me a quick shot of steroids. After a few days I kinda snap out of what I called almost dream like state. I had been very confused, short term memory was messed up. But now I'm feeling normal. That lasted about a week. Then came the spells of vertigo and tingling "sometimes painful stinging" sensations down my left leg and arm, or feeling of a wet foot and squeezing in my chest and sharp pokes in my chest. I also have not been able to drive because the vertigo comes on so fast.
So doc orders an MRI and this one shows "Singular punctate hyperintensity
in the subcortical white matter of the right parietal lobe. Nonspecific, not demyelinization."
So now I have two MRIs over a period of 4 yeas and feel like we have more questions than answers.
Have any of you had this happen? Should I opt for a third MRI?
MRI showed several small peri ventricular white matter lesions. Report said MS was possible and would need to be ruled out.
I was good for a few years up until last September. I started to have very serious attacks of vertigo and numbness and tingling mostly in the left side of my body. Then I got tightness in my chest all around the thoracic area, front and back. Had my heart check and it's all good.
December 9th I had an attack of vertigo in the shower, blacked out and fell. My husband insisted it looked like a seizure. I could not walk talk or see properly. The ER staff insisted I was drunk or on drugs even doing a full panel for alcohol and numerous street drugs. The next day I had another attack of vertigo in my doctors office. He gave me a quick shot of steroids. After a few days I kinda snap out of what I called almost dream like state. I had been very confused, short term memory was messed up. But now I'm feeling normal. That lasted about a week. Then came the spells of vertigo and tingling "sometimes painful stinging" sensations down my left leg and arm, or feeling of a wet foot and squeezing in my chest and sharp pokes in my chest. I also have not been able to drive because the vertigo comes on so fast.
So doc orders an MRI and this one shows "Singular punctate hyperintensity
in the subcortical white matter of the right parietal lobe. Nonspecific, not demyelinization."
So now I have two MRIs over a period of 4 yeas and feel like we have more questions than answers.
Have any of you had this happen? Should I opt for a third MRI?