I am a female and am 49 years old. For the last 14 months, I've hit just about every MS symptom known to mankind minus eye issues. Luckily, (I think) I can see everything when I fall.
I have gone through 6 MRI's in one year: 3 on my brain, 2 on my cervical spine and one total spine. Most of these MRI's were horrendous and very difficult to read, however, the last brain MRI I had just a few weeks ago, was much clearer than the others.
Over the last year I have a 1001 blood tests all to eliminate any diseases and/or illnesses which can cause my variety of symptoms, such as lupus, lyme, RA, and blah blah blah. Recently, I've given another 8 tubes of blood to test for blood clotting disorders "just in case". Every thing has been within normal limits except my Vitamin D which is 7 and my hemoglobin which is higher than normal because I smoke. I know.
Anyhow, I just received my latest MRI report and have not heard back from my neurologist yet. I'm hoping he will contact me within maybe the next two weeks. Yet, after 14 months, I'm tired of tests, I'm tired of giving tube after tube of blood, I'm tired of taking Xanax for MRI's and I'm tired of waiting for an answer. Finally, I'm just tired.
So if anybody here can read over this MRI report and perhaps explain it to me in layman terms, I would truly appreciate it, more than you'll ever know.
I thank you so much.
Hyperintense T2/FLAIR foci are seen in the right basal ganglia, right posterior limb of internal capsule/basal ganglia. A few scattered foci of increased T2/FLAIR signal are also seen in the left globus pallidus and in the left posterior limb of internal capsule region.Trace amounts of right mastoid fluid are seen.
IMPRESSIONS:
Nonspecific areas of T2/FLAIR signal abnormality are seen in the bilateral basal ganglia/posterior limb of internal capsule.
Once again, I thank you for any and all help you give me.
