hello sllowe the doc told me i have lesions in my brain they showed up in the MRI scan.he said its showing MS but told me to forget about it because i was sent for a CT scan by the mentle heath team because i was seeing things.he said the lesions on my brain are down to my mentle heath.but my CPN said it is not pose for anyones mentle heath to show up in there brain or from a MRI scan.i no myself i have MS because of the things that happen to me but its had when a doc wont take it on.thankyou for getting back to me.
HI there,
Welcome to the forum. So, what were you seeing? How can we help? Is there any way you can get ahold of the reports of your Brain? That may help us determine if they saw lesions on your brain. Not that we can make any diagnosis or anything, but maybe we can help you move along to another Dr. for a 2nd opinion.
In the meantime, if you like, please check out our health pages located toward the top right hand corner of the website. There you will find write ups on how MRIs show lesions, etc., and a whole lot about MS.
Be well,
Shelly
The same thing happened to me. I had a sudden onset of vision distortion/disfunction in April of 2006. I had been on SSRI's for 14 years prior to this, but my mental diagnosis is simply clinical anxiety and depression, brought on at the start from post pardom depression after the births of each of my three sons.
Anyway, this new doctor decides that the Zoloft that had been working fine for all of these years, just wasn't working to control all of my panic attacks anymore. He decides to switch me to Paroxetine(generic Paxil) without tappering either drug, and also jerks me off of the low dose of Xanax that my GP had me on once a day at bedtime to prevent panic attacks in my sleep.
Long story short, six weeks after this change is when I had the onset of vision disturbance. I went to two different ER's, and one did a CT which was negative so they sent me home. The second ER doctor automatically thought that I was making up the vision loss and sent me to a mental hospital where I stayed for one week.
When I got out I still couldn't see right because of the severe distortion and severe light sensitivity, so I went to several eye doctors. My eyes were normal they all told me, and they too did not believe me. Until, five months later one of them finally gave into my demands that he give me a visual field test. This test showed a visual field defect, and this result in turn got me refered to a neurologist, but eight months had gone by now!
Neuro done an MRI, which showed multiple white matter lesions, about 10 in my brain. Finally I was believed, but sadly it was too late to receive the IV steriod treatment I so desperately needed to take down the inflammation that was in my brain and causing my vision to whack out.
They all thought I was crazy and that the wierd things that I was describing that I was seeing was not real, but they were very real and not caused by a mental condition, but the many brain lesions in my brain.
I wouldn't give up until they listened to me, I knew that I was not crazy, and I knew what I was seeing was real or at least it appeared to be real to me at that time because of the damage that was happening in my brain at that very time. They finally listened to me once the test started showing the truth.
Keep on fighting for yourself, don't listen to them when you know what you are seeing is real. RUN, DON'T WALK away from any doctor who tries to dismiss a real neurological condition as a mental illness. FIND ANOTHER DOCTOR ASAP!!!
I still don't have a definite MS dx, but I have been stuck between ADEM and MS for two years having to have repeat MRI's every six months to look for new lesions, so far no new lesions and no new attacks, so it is kind of leaning toward ADEM.
If you need my help on anything please don't hesitate to ask, because I have been exactly where you are right now!
~Santana~