Can these results be saved?

[tousmom]

After experiencing a headache where it felt like someone was driving a stake in my head (left side), I became very dizzy, nauseous and my vision blurred with side to side movement I could not control. The vision problems lasted for about 5 minutes. The nausea lasted for several days and the dizziness continues sporadically. My doctor ordered a CT scan and was not comfortable with the results. So, she ordered an MRI. The findings and impression are as follows: Technique: Multiplanar multisequence MR images of the brain were obtained without and with 15 mL intravenous mother hands.

Patchy foci of increased T2/Flair signal are seen in the supratentorial white matter bilaterally. There is no associated enhancement or mass effect. No evidence of restricted diffusion or acute intracranial hemorrhage.

Impression: Extensive nonenhancing supratentorial white matter signal abnormalities. Differential considerations include chronic small vessel ischemic change and demyelinating disease.

I am 61 years old, suffer from high blood pressure and the occasional migraine. What does this all mean? Is it normal aging affects? I see my doctor again 6/24.

[immisceo]

There were some abnormal areas seen in your brain that might be caused by blood pressure/circulation issues ("ischemic changes") or demyelination (MS is a demyelinating disease, but there are several others). These are included in the "differentials" which are essentially the radiologist's best guesses as to the cause of what they saw. It will be up to your neurologist to narrow it down based on your full clinical picture (your history, lab results, clinical exams, etc.)

Katya, T2, T1, and FLAIR are simply names of various MRI sequences (the different rhythmic sounds you hear when you're in the tube are the different sequences running). If an MRI report says "FLAIR sequences seen in image..." it tells whoever is looking at the images where they can find exactly what is mentioned and gives a hint at the nature of what was seen. Different sequences tease different types of things out of 'hiding'.

FLAIR is an acronym. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid-attenuated_inversion_recovery and T usually stands for time. (T1 = inversion time)

[Katya4]

I have no answers for you, sorry, but I would like to post a side question that another answerer may also know...

I want to know what a T2 flair is... I had that on my spinal MRI, or maybe it was T1, can't remember but it was T something flair, I thought it mean a malfunction in the MRI machine over a thoracic vertebra, Lol!  Now I am curious what it is.