Just A Funny Anecdote

[marlo34]

Many of you might remember me seeing a rather strange neuro a couple of weeks ago. I just googled something he told me, and I think what he said is NOT true.
"Your lesions are on the right side of your brain, but most of your symptoms are on the left side. Right side lesions=right side issues, not left."
This is why he suspected cervical spine lesions.

I pray he was just off that day, or that he is right in what he said, because thinking a neuro could say something that wrong is kind of scary.

[marlo34]

I am not saying I am infallible either :). It is possible the stress of the appt clouded my memory, but this stuck out to me so much and confused me because my initial neuro never said such a thing.

[marlo34]

My husband said the same thing, but I SWEAR he said that. He suspected spinal lesions for various reasons too--ms hug, etc. My understanding was he thought my lesions must be causing the unexplained opposing side pain. That, or he was confused.
I remember thinking "Why am I having left side issues if it is on the right side?" Also, he said it sounded like a systemic issue because the symptoms were in various places, not just on the right side. He said symptoms in ms are almost always one sided. It did only take one week to get in to see him...and I think I now know why. My hunch? Exhaustion on his part. I did not know about the opposing sides until I was googling tonight. I This man did say pain did not exist in ms, too. I should have explained his spinal lesion suspicions better.

[supermum_ms]

Dont shoot me but that type of error is highly unlikely to be said by anyone medically trained, even more unlikely coming from a neuro so i think its got to be a misunderstanding of what was said. He would of needed to have found some form of clinical sign during the exam to suspect spinal lesions eg hyperlexia, and or relating to cause of a sx(s) eg  Hug etc our health page give a basic idea of spinal lesions.

http://www.medhelp.org/tags/health_page/7687/Multiple-Sclerosis/Spinal-Cord-Lesions?hp_id=764

Cheers......JJ