Symptoms of MS?

[Beth1222]

Im a 32 year old female that just had an abnormal MRI without contrast Monday night showing a focal T2/FLAIR hyperintensity with minimal mass effect involving the left peri atrial white matter. There were no other lesions found. Normal appearancestors of the corpus callous without specific findings of multiple sclerosis. Ive had headaches on almost a daily basis for 3 months and more recent days a tingling crawling sensation on my head that over the counter meds don't take care of. I am a nervous wreck. I have tingling feelings in my right leg and foot for probably 6 months now off and on. Before that it was just my right arm. I am so scared I have MS. Im a single mother of 2 kids. I will be going to the Cleveland clinic soon for further testing. Doing so much research and it's making me severely depressed. Is it possible this lesion is normal or could be something not so serious?

[supermum_ms]

Hi and welcome,

I think you might be assuming your MRI is abnormal and your research trying to work out what it could mean is causing you unnecessary distress....breath!

If you mean you have 1 'parietal' white matter lesion and nothing else, it's highly possible your brain MRI is actually normal because it's not abnormal to have 1 or more non specific white matter lesion(s) in the frontal lobes.

IF the lesion was described as having 'mass effect' it could be of some significance in size though not necessarily relating to MS, because the lesion was described as "with minimal mass effect" i think your going to find it basically means the lesion is very small and or within normal limits.

MS is going to be on your list of potential causes because of the symptom type and symptom pattern, as well as being female and your age group BUT your brain MRI results wouldn't put MS at the top of your list and further tests will be needed before you do have a better idea of what could be causing this. Keep in mind that MS is only 1 medical explanation for many different types of symptoms, it genuinely might not be a neurological condition like MS, so try if you can to not become too focused on any specific medical condition at this stage of your testing...

Hope that helps.........JJ

[Beth1222]

Do u have any idea what the tingling feeling could be on the top of my head? I had this feeling before my mri. I don't known if there is something wrong or if it's from anxiety.

[greenly62]

This is a great forum and you will get some good answers from very experienced people.  However, I wanted to reassure you that it does NOT mean you have MS.  I had a similar problem a few years ago and have NOT been diagnosed with MS even though I do have some brain lesions.  My neurologist told me the lesions could be from the migraines, vasculitis, or even insomnia.  Cleveland Clinic should do testing and you will hopefully get some answers from them.   Good luck to you!

[Beth1222]

I never dealt with headaches before nor ever dealt with insomnia. I'm a complete mess over this from being so worried. Thank you so much though.

[Beth1222]

Forgot to mention, I've also been having twitching of my head off and on through the day.