Quix or anyone Dr vs Radiologist

[LATW]

Whose word do you take when it concerns an MRI?  MS doctor says c-spine lesions but no brain lesions.  Radiologist report comes back and says no c-spine but brain lesion.  

2007 MRI showed ON and a possible area of demylenation in the white matter.

2008 showed ON but the brain demylenation spot was gone.

I guess I can take it I have lesions SOMEWHERE.

[LATW]

Ok, good advice as always.  This is the only time I have seen this MS doctor.  I sent my first set of MRI's to him today along with a time line of events.  

He is coming in on the middle of all of this because the clinic I was going to closed.  

LA

[Quixotic1]

I would take the films to another center and have a neuroradiologist give you a second opinion.  I would find it hard to make the choice unless I knew my neuro very well.  In my case my neuro had it hands down over any radiologist I can imagine.  My films were read by the neurorad at the private imaging center and my neuro ran rings around them in seeing stuff.

Really though, after diagnosis it really doesn't matter a whole lot unless your access to treatment is hanging in the balance.  We all know that the MRI is NOT a mirror of what is going on in your body.

Q

[jensequitur]

Personally I'd trust the radiologist over the neurologist.