new neuro might be a keeper

[chinacat65]

I saw my new nuero today and he seemed very nice and actually interested in listening to my symptoms. The word stress or anxiety was never mentioned....I think he was trying to make some sort of time line for my symptoms but my not knowing these things were symptoms of ms made it a little difficult.
I do know that in Oct was when the pain around my chest started and in Jan I had the siezure like episode that lead to the MRI that showed the lesions on the brain. His office is affiliated with the radiology center that did my mri and he was actually able to pull it up and look at it.But there were only a few images. So he wants me to pick up the disc and bring it to the office. He also schedualed me for an mri of the brain with contrast and also the lumbar and cervical spine..
He spoke to me about radiological ms Any one ever heard of this? Its about ms showing on mri's but not showing symptoms. If I understood him right. At least I feel I'm  closer to some answers and I was treated kindly. He also did a nuerological exam that lasted about a half an hour . Im pretty sure I passed ! (most of it anyway)
I follow up with him on june 18 .

[chinacat65]

It is my thoracic spine sorry thanks for info

[essdipity]

Good! Some steps in the right direction.

I haven't heard the expression 'radiological MS,' but the concept is quite familiar. It's very possible to have lots of lesions on the brain and no MS symptoms. The lesions have to be in the right (or actually wrong) places to have negative effects. Many areas of the brain seem to be 'silent' in this regard. All of which is good, or many of us here would be a lot worse off than we are. Lesions on the spinal cord seem to be more 'eloquent,' meaning if they're there, we'll hear from them.

I'm not clear on why your neuro is ordering an MRI of the lumbar spine and not the thoracic spine. Lumbar problems are not part of MS, since the spinal cord ends just above this point. The thoracic area does contain the spinal cord. Does he suspect you have a problem other than MS?

Good luck with all of this and please keep us posted.

ess