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small 2mm hyperintense
Hello,
Im a 22yr male. once very athletic in my prior days before i decided to join the military. Anyways, everytime I get seen I feel like im getting blown off and told everything is okay. Im no hypercondriac, but i do require answers. Especially after this past episode which led me to my first ride in an ambulance and IV and heavy meds to make the pain go away.
So ive tried searching all over google trying to find someone with similar questions or answers for this MRI. Anyways, Ill just start off with the last episode and a few symptoms here.
To keep a long story very short and sweet.
I got off work, was standing talking on the phone with a friend in my bedroom. Got some very weird sensations in body. started with a "shockwave" of pain through body almost made me sick to my stomach and happened very fast and went away. seconds later happens again. I get cold feeling underneath left lower ribcage, lose sensation in my mid back. that sensation shot up my neck to the center top of head. By the time paramedics arrived at my house I had a loss of sensation in my arms and legs(knee and below) as well. Took me to hospital shot me up with heavy pain meds and antiinflammatories and said it was a back spasm and sent me home.
Follow up with a doc on base. Ordered Brain/Thoracic spine MRIs to check for MS and something else not sure. I received the brain MRIs only so far and here is how it reads. I have the disc with images if anyone would like to see.
just looking for input, i have no family history of any illness, no allergies, ive been healthy all my life and pretty athletic.
here is the MRI "FINDINGS":
" There is no acute intracranial hemorrhage or infarction.
On the FLAIR and T2 weighted images, there is a single, tiny, punctate, mildly hyperintense 2mm focus of increased signal at the right frontal deep white matter (axial image 14). There is no appreciable mass effect or enhancement associated with this focus. The remainder of the brain, cerebellum, and brainstem are unremarkable. No abnormal enhancement. The ventricular and extraaxial spaces are unremarkable. Flow voids within the major intracranial arteries are grossly unremarkable. Orbits and globes are unremarkable. The sinuses and nasopharynx and mastoid air cells are clear. "
anyone got anything? ill be seeing my doc Monday
I just like multiple opinions
Thanx
Im a 22yr male. once very athletic in my prior days before i decided to join the military. Anyways, everytime I get seen I feel like im getting blown off and told everything is okay. Im no hypercondriac, but i do require answers. Especially after this past episode which led me to my first ride in an ambulance and IV and heavy meds to make the pain go away.
So ive tried searching all over google trying to find someone with similar questions or answers for this MRI. Anyways, Ill just start off with the last episode and a few symptoms here.
To keep a long story very short and sweet.
I got off work, was standing talking on the phone with a friend in my bedroom. Got some very weird sensations in body. started with a "shockwave" of pain through body almost made me sick to my stomach and happened very fast and went away. seconds later happens again. I get cold feeling underneath left lower ribcage, lose sensation in my mid back. that sensation shot up my neck to the center top of head. By the time paramedics arrived at my house I had a loss of sensation in my arms and legs(knee and below) as well. Took me to hospital shot me up with heavy pain meds and antiinflammatories and said it was a back spasm and sent me home.
Follow up with a doc on base. Ordered Brain/Thoracic spine MRIs to check for MS and something else not sure. I received the brain MRIs only so far and here is how it reads. I have the disc with images if anyone would like to see.
just looking for input, i have no family history of any illness, no allergies, ive been healthy all my life and pretty athletic.
here is the MRI "FINDINGS":
" There is no acute intracranial hemorrhage or infarction.
On the FLAIR and T2 weighted images, there is a single, tiny, punctate, mildly hyperintense 2mm focus of increased signal at the right frontal deep white matter (axial image 14). There is no appreciable mass effect or enhancement associated with this focus. The remainder of the brain, cerebellum, and brainstem are unremarkable. No abnormal enhancement. The ventricular and extraaxial spaces are unremarkable. Flow voids within the major intracranial arteries are grossly unremarkable. Orbits and globes are unremarkable. The sinuses and nasopharynx and mastoid air cells are clear. "
anyone got anything? ill be seeing my doc Monday
I just like multiple opinions
Thanx
I dont think I have. I havent been referred to one yet by my doctor. Then again my doctor believes all thats going on is that im having "panic attacks". Just because none of the tests HE ordered come back positive. So he gave me Xanax which definitely helps me get to bed easily. You shouldnt have "panic attacks" while enjoying yourself at a movie, on the phone laughing with your friend, sitting at work checking your emails and surfing the net, and while laying down trying to go to sleep.
I know there is so many things it can be, but Im not stupid. Even WHEN I do get anxiety from something else I dont have these type of episodes. My age must play a factor in why my doctor blows everything off as its nothing going on.
SOMETHING is triggering these attacks at random. The attacks dont last that long but the effects sure can last a few hours. Im pretty sure its nothing I eat, nothing I can think chemically effecting me. I dont work around harsh chemicals or go inhaling anything. I dont smoke. I used to drink but not even that much. Maybe wine at night once in awhile.
I have a copy of all the labs they have done and some that are still pending. Im not sure if ive had any autoimmune labs done. What would they show up as? Just as ANA?
Im still waiting on my Western Blot and Bartonella tests from Lymes Specialist have like a week and a half left before results should be sent back up from California and Arizona.
My doctor right now is sending me to a endocrinologist so ill find out probably monday when I will be seeing him. Ill try and get a rheumatologist if this other doctor cant figure it out.
I know there is so many things it can be, but Im not stupid. Even WHEN I do get anxiety from something else I dont have these type of episodes. My age must play a factor in why my doctor blows everything off as its nothing going on.
SOMETHING is triggering these attacks at random. The attacks dont last that long but the effects sure can last a few hours. Im pretty sure its nothing I eat, nothing I can think chemically effecting me. I dont work around harsh chemicals or go inhaling anything. I dont smoke. I used to drink but not even that much. Maybe wine at night once in awhile.
I have a copy of all the labs they have done and some that are still pending. Im not sure if ive had any autoimmune labs done. What would they show up as? Just as ANA?
Im still waiting on my Western Blot and Bartonella tests from Lymes Specialist have like a week and a half left before results should be sent back up from California and Arizona.
My doctor right now is sending me to a endocrinologist so ill find out probably monday when I will be seeing him. Ill try and get a rheumatologist if this other doctor cant figure it out.
Have you been to a rheumatologist, or have you had any autoimmune testing done? An ANA test? (Antinuclear antibodies). A rheumatologist will run specific tests that can pinpoint an autoimmune condition, such as Connective Tissue disease, which could cause a lot of symptoms.
If you haven't had autoimmune tests done yet, it would be worth looking into.
Just a thought. :)
If you haven't had autoimmune tests done yet, it would be worth looking into.
Just a thought. :)
so i just tried to go to bed started to have another "episode". Heart started up while laying there.. thats a first its usually never when im laying down.
ok so next question...
underneath my left side rib cage i noticed something seems to be popping in and out of place. When i pull my shoulders back and stretch my abdomen some, place my fingers just below my rib cage left side. its like a muscle popped back into its spot or something there is also a little round feeling "thing" beside it feels like its bruised. This is the same area that on the 26th of march I got the cold feeling at just before it started.
Spleen is in that area isnt it?
what kind of symptoms would spleen cause, can it get out of place or maybe rib cage can press on it?
ok so next question...
underneath my left side rib cage i noticed something seems to be popping in and out of place. When i pull my shoulders back and stretch my abdomen some, place my fingers just below my rib cage left side. its like a muscle popped back into its spot or something there is also a little round feeling "thing" beside it feels like its bruised. This is the same area that on the 26th of march I got the cold feeling at just before it started.
Spleen is in that area isnt it?
what kind of symptoms would spleen cause, can it get out of place or maybe rib cage can press on it?
I don't know what machine they hook you up to, but you get a lot of things glued to your head.
I cut my pills in half and take both halves routinely. Keep the other half in the bottle or the cutter.
I cut my pills in half and take both halves routinely. Keep the other half in the bottle or the cutter.
yeah im probably going to have to cut them in half. Doing that wont make the other half i dont take unusable would it?
I seen an optometrist today, he called it Episcleritis. Gave me basically anti inflammatory eye drops for it said follow back up next week to see if it improved and if so to stop using the eye drops.
Last night I had those "intense" or "vivid" dreams yet again. They are hard to wake from. It almost feels as if im awake but my body hasnt caught up with it. After I do I check my blood pressure and its in the LOW range definitely well under 90/60. My body temp seems to drop down to mid 96's as well.
Hoping the sleep study does show something. What machines do they hook you up to? Are they checking vitals along with alpha and beta waves. Checking pulse and what not?
I seen an optometrist today, he called it Episcleritis. Gave me basically anti inflammatory eye drops for it said follow back up next week to see if it improved and if so to stop using the eye drops.
Last night I had those "intense" or "vivid" dreams yet again. They are hard to wake from. It almost feels as if im awake but my body hasnt caught up with it. After I do I check my blood pressure and its in the LOW range definitely well under 90/60. My body temp seems to drop down to mid 96's as well.
Hoping the sleep study does show something. What machines do they hook you up to? Are they checking vitals along with alpha and beta waves. Checking pulse and what not?
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