What do you call this bit of the brain?)

[Footsie3110]

I had a MRI today and there's a nice big new lesion there. I was trying to remember what you call the bit of the brain that it's in. My last report showed lots of small peri-ventricular lesions, but I can't remember where those ones were although I *think* they were dotted around the same area?

Can someone have a look at my pic and tell me what it's called?

http://www.medhelp.org/user_photos/show/320096?personal_page_id=2945943

[Footsie3110]

PastorDan: "Yours is bigger than mine"... hehe do I win a prize? ;)

Guitar_grrl: Thanks. So far I've had two MRI's that looked the same as each other (7 months apart with no new symptoms in between) and showed lots of little lesions all over the place, and this one last night that showed a lot of the old lesions gone, some still there but faded and smaller, and this new one appeared. I've had full bloodwork to rule out the mimics, and nerve conduction studies on my feet (I have nerve pain and numbness there).

Since late November I've been suffering in the heat of Summer and it bought on the return of an old symptom and a few new ones. It started with burning aching feet (the old symptom), then an awful feeling in one foot that was like wearing a blood pressure cuff around the top of my right foot for a few days in a row, and now I've been walking like my toddler for the last two weeks feeling really off-balance and unsteady on my feet, falling into the Christmas tree, lurching and stumbling a lot (it gets wore the hotter the weather is) and the most embarrassing bit is walking in my jandals (flip-flops) I keep losing the left one because my toes just won't hold it in place unless I really concentrated. I wish I had a sign that said "I am NOT drunk" as I was getting some pretty odd looks.

I think the stumbling and lurching is because of my left leg, which feels like it's made of lead. Driving when this started happening was fun - I crunched the gears, bunny-hopped the car and jolted my passengers around a lot trying to figure out why my "clutch" foot suddenly weighed a ton.

I don't have a Neuro appointment until the end of January but I'm hoping the new lesion and disappearing old ones might finally help her move me out of limboland. There was also something icky looking on my thoracic spine mri I want to ask her about, but I doubt it's an MS/neurological issue so I'm not sure she'll be interested. *sigh*

Feeling rather like a hypochondriac right now, and it's taking the fun out of my Christmas preparations. All I want to do is sit on the couch all day because getting up to do anything is exhausting when I'm so unsteady.

[Guitar_grrrl]

Looks like a juxtacortical lesion, to me.  Remember, though, there's no necessarily direct link to lesions and symptoms.  What other exams have you had?

[PastorDan]

Welled, I don't know what it's called, but it's exactly the same spot where my biggest one is located.  Yours is bigger than mine, though.