No wonder I could not figure out what was being said. I guess that should be expected with the VA. This is the same place that stated an MRI of my left knee was of my right knee.
Yes I have had several tests for Lyme including the western blots. The last one was about 10 or 15 years ago (I have trouble with time frames). But I have been biten by ticks several times last spring and summer. I did not develop the tell-tale bullseye rash with any of them and got them off of my body within a short period of time. I have mentioned the tick bites to my doctors.
Dennis
Hi, Dennis.
I don't know what the eye movements mean, other than you have some movement disorder involving the ocular motor nerves.
The first sentence of the MRI is hopelessly garbled, except that they see something that is inappropriate for your age.
You got lots of small pinpoint lesions which are mostly in the area just below the cortex. This is an area frequently hit by MS lesions, and is also the prime target for tiny vessel ischemic (lack of blood/oxygen) disease. The radiologist lists the common other things that would cause this. Generally, (but it's not a rule) they list the most likely things first.
"Multifocal punctatefoci of increased T2-weighted singlare seen within this renal white matter..." Huh? This is a garbled sentence that sounds like the transcriber could not understand what the radiologist was saying. Renal means kidney, so that is a mistake. Basically it is talking about lots of spots.
Cerebral atrophy is much greater than you would extpect for age. Basically, though a person does statistically have some shrinkage of the brain by age 59, it is not something that is visually obvious. The amount of brain matter that you have lost is striking to this radiologist. That speaks to a lot of little lesions and neuron loss over the years. I'm really sorry about this. It angers me that the docs stood by giving you double talk while your brain was shrinking. So, much for malingering and stress!
You doc should return this report and ask that it be corrected to read what the radiologist intended it to read.
Here is your smoking gun.
Have you had good testing for Lyme, with Western Blots?
Quix