Multiple Sclerosis MRI (Dawson's Finger?)

[Kurt25]

Hi all,
2 months I developed some discomfort (pins and needles feeling/ soreness) in my right hand up to the elbow, this moved to my left hand, and soon to both legs. It all cleared about 5 weeks later. Dr. thought it was carpal tunnel (for the hands).
As soon as my hands became normal, I started having the same sensation in my head, lips, nose, chills inside my skull, pins and needles in my feet when sleeping.
The Dr. suspected MS. So he sent me for MRI.
I got the MRI report lately, it came inconclusive: “Several tiny foci of increased T2 in the frontal lobes and one 4 mm in the pericallosal white matter adjacent to the corpus callosum (attached photo)”. They recommended following up in 6 months.
What are the chances that this is my first MS lesion (attached photo), especially that it looks exactly like a dawson finger? Do I really have to wait 6 months to get a definitive diagnosis, wouldn’t be better to be started on drugs instead of letting more lesions develop?
Note that other than the lesion shown in the photo, there is nothing major.
Thanks for your comments.

[Kurt25]

How big are your Dawson's fingers?
How well are you dealing with MS?

[sherry_70]

I too have dawson fingers myself.  My left side of my brain in my MRI had literally 5 spots like a HAND squezing my brain and the same thing on my right side as well.  I have in all 48 lecions.  22 in my brain and 26 going down my spinal cord.  

[Dagun]

Good luck with the testing, I hope you'll get some answers.
My best,
Dagun

[Kurt25]

ya i get random tingling and muscles twitches all over my body nowadays.
i have a long list of blood tests to do this week.
i wish they will detect something

[Dagun]

No, my neuro would not do another MRI yet (he said in Nov) my last was done in June 2011. I´m hoping he will do that this summer. I´m writing my whole story for him , trying to put it down to only 2 pages and I will send to him. I´m trying to keep that easy to read, so he will get a good "picture" of what has been going on and how it has developed. Because I´m going to make a new appointment soon and I´m hoping he will have read my story and thought about it, so he will know better what to do next.

But the thing is with both of us that bilateral tingling, that troubles the neuros. I saw that you had already posted on ms forums and were getting good answers. Sorry for my English.

Dagun  

[Kurt25]

I did read your journal and we have a lot of similarities. I did lose control on my right hand one day while I was typing, the muscles were slaking for 3 seconds
Did you get another MRI, to see if there are new lesions?
Thanks

[Dagun]

Hi Kurt, I´m sorry that this is going on and ofcourse we all want to know right away what is happening to us. But they need to see how/if it changes (the lesion) and also if the symptoms change. I am not dx yet, and I am hanging around in the multible sclerosis forum to get info. So you should post this there to get attention from all the peoble with ms.

I had about the same symptoms as you in the beginning (nearly 2 years ago) but my neuro is still not figuring this out. You could read my journal if you would like to compare the symptoms.  

Good luck,
Dagun