mri

[artist2011]

i had a mri done in march, and this is what the FINDINGS part reads:

On the FLAIR sequence, thre are a few small foci of hyperintensity in the bilateral frontal white matter.  There are also a few similar areas in the lower left anterior parietal white matter and there may be minimal enhancement of the largest of these lesions.

Under IMPRESSION:

several small foci of signal abnormalily in the bilateral cerebral white matter.  the most prominent of these, in the lower anterior left parietal subcortical region, appears to be minimally enhancing.  There is no restricted diffusion.  A follow up scan in a few months can be performed to evaluate for intercal change

what does this mean?  since I have had some tingling and numbness in my lips and I go back this coming monday (16th) to neurologist who will discuss the levels of my meds i am on and possibly up my dose and discuss when my re scan mri will be.

[sllowe]

Hi again,

Sorry I missed this. I hear you on working through it all because you have a family to take care of. Just things get to a point where you must see the doc so you can keep doing that.

Ok - so I definitely see why you are seeing the neuro. What you are experiencing sounds soo painful and the meds are not giving you any relief. I would not have done a spinal either with not knowing what for - especially under the circumstances you were already in.

Does your pressure usually spike like that?
I think it may be good for you to start a timeline of events and doc visits and tests, that way you will be able to articulate your thoughts during the next appt. (it's so easy to miss something during appts) and maybe there is a pattern there you and the doc can explore.

If you get no resolve, please keep moving on. Spikes of pain in the head like that and your bp spiking up can be an indicator of something else going on.

Hoping the others will come along too and provide their thoughts.
-Shell

[artist2011]

in the past i got migraines, and was put on inderal la.. that worked, i didnt' have a migraine at all for 18 months.. they were just typical migraines.. nothing spectacular about them.  Then march 17, 2011, i had one that blew them all away... pain was 100 times worse than i had ever had before, came on much quicker, felt like lightening in my head, if that makes any kind of sense, ( in the past i had learned to function through my pain, i have kids!) so I tried to go about my day, by dinner time, i had chest pains and then i was shaking all over.  went to dr.. he gave me some sorts of shots and i went home.  slept .  still had migraine.  went back three days later and then again in three days was at er... told them it wasnt just a migraine it was something else.  blood was ok.. that is when they did mri and found what they did.  then neurologist did a CTA and when they put the dye in that caused a migraine, which had never happened before, couldn't get rid of that one and two days later was at his office.. this was happening in same way as other one... hands were shaking very badly and they started me on topamax, and then sent me to er.. by time i got there, whole body was shaking like i was freezing, but i wasn't cold.  bp was 169/149. once they started medicines, it slowly went back to normal ( my normal is 96/50) and i stopped shaking. i slept after that.  totally exhausted.  I knew exactly what was going to happen and told them so... they saw it... the pains in my head weren't an actual headache, more like strikes of pain in specifics spots..  i am not sure how to explain them.,. i get them in certain spots... i dont know.  strange.. at times they are blinding and times just barely there.    they wanted to re do a mri in a few months from the first one, that was march, so that shouldbe coming up soon.  at the er, they wanted to do a spinal, i was alone and sick and scared and they wouldnt' say why  and i said no..  had they said why, maybe i would have let them... but i didn't have anyone with me.

i am not sure what to expect or where all this is or leading