I'll have my first follow up appointment with the neurologist in June ( a year after diagnosis). I'm on tecfidera and I had a follow up MRI (brain) a couple of months ago. I'll get the results at this appointment in June.
About a year ago, my first MRI was a cspine MRI which had pretty obvious lesions, I could even see them. Then a month after that, the brain MRI was not so obvious. The neurologist who read the scans said it was clear, but the ms specialist said there was something that was possibly a lesion.
Anyway, the MS nurse told me that they only do brain MRIs as follow ups, that's standard procedure. I am wondering why, considering it is the cspine that has lesions that I imagine are the ones that should be monitored? Is this something that I should press for when I see the neurologist? It seems like I'll have yearly appointments (at best) so I want to get all my questions answered then!
About a year ago, my first MRI was a cspine MRI which had pretty obvious lesions, I could even see them. Then a month after that, the brain MRI was not so obvious. The neurologist who read the scans said it was clear, but the ms specialist said there was something that was possibly a lesion.
Anyway, the MS nurse told me that they only do brain MRIs as follow ups, that's standard procedure. I am wondering why, considering it is the cspine that has lesions that I imagine are the ones that should be monitored? Is this something that I should press for when I see the neurologist? It seems like I'll have yearly appointments (at best) so I want to get all my questions answered then!
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