disappearing lesions

My 50 year old husband initially had a couple of "blurred vision" incidents, then a couple weeks later, a sudden  unsteady gait.  After an MRI showed multiple lesions, he had a brain biopsy as the doctors thought possibly cancer.  The biopsy results showed no cancer but symptoms remained.  He also had complications from the biopsy and was hospitalized for a month.  He remains unsteady on his left side and has short term memory issues.  Subsequent MRIs are showing lesions are disappearing; scar tissue remain - doctors don't know why.  Right now we are told it is a "waiting game" to see if they reappear.  Blood work, EEG and lumbar puncture all coming back normal!!!  

Can anyone relate to this pattern?  

[Lulu54]

Hi Jam,
It must be terrifying to hear the possibility of brain cancer - what a relief for you both that it wasn't.  I am not a doctor, but if I'm remembering clearly which I often don't do! an MRI that suggests cancer looks nothing like MS lesions.  Their shape, location and other identifiers are very different.  

Are you comfortable with and confident in the doctors that are treating your husband?  You say scar tissue remains - is that from the biopsy?  If you are talking about lesions as we know them here in the MS brain - areas where the myelin has been destroyed - the body will do its best to repatch the damaged area.  But that is something so obvious you doctors would know.  

I don't think I've shed any light here for you, but you are welcome to come back and keep questioning all you need. There are many well-versed members of this forum, and someone else may have some ideas for you.

take care of yourself too!
Lulu

[Sarahsmom46]

Sometimes lesions can disappear when the body tries to repair the damage as Lu said. This is something we might see in a case of MS.  But, lesions sometimes lesions that are being caused by something else, like inflammation, can disappear from treatments that patients get.  Do you know if you husband was treated with steroids or what we call Solu-Medrol given by IV while in the hospital?  The steroids would help deal with inflammation and you might see lesions "disappear" in subsequent MRIs.  

There are probably many conditions that could look like lesions are disappearing. I am not a doctor not even close to it, but since I have had this happen to me recently I had to ask my doctor about it.  He said that condition like sarcoidosis or infections migh be a cause of this to happen.  He did not recommend doing a biopsy to check it out as that is very risky as you have mentioned with your husbands complications and one month hospitalization.  

Did anything else come out of the biopsy results other than wasn't cancer?  How is he doing?