Interesting article

[artteacher]

This was posted on another forum. It might answer a few questions about progression or even diagnosis. Or it might raise some more questions for some.

[url]http://www.msdiscovery.org/news/news_synthesis/322-more-meets-eye[url]

[muse_7]

That was a great article and extremely interesting graphic. It might also explain why some of us get so many different diagnosis of benign, RRMS, SPMS and PPMS and then they change. One MRI is just a picture in time.

Unfortunately I also think it raises as many questions as it answers.

[dm0329]

Since my MS dx 18 years ago, I'm always trying to find up-to-date information on progression.

Thanks for sharing!

[rdmc]

What a great article. Those time scans were amazing, and show how imprecise MRI can be on any given day. I had no idea that lesions came and went like that...intellectually I knew it, but to see it as pretty cool.

[BigA]

Wow.


We know NOTHING. We don't even know what we are seeing on an MRI and the usual measurements used for creating drugs are not dependable.

[jifr]

Thank you!

Thank you for posting this!

I have been so distraught about the fact that my MS specialist seems PLEASED with the fact that my brain lesions are stable and the newest one is "just tiny".

I am utterly and completely baffled as to why she seems to totally ignore or discount the fact that my spinal lesions, on the other hand, have INCREASED. On every single scan!

It's my understanding that, while it's not exactly EASIER to correlate symptoms with spinal lesions than it is to correlate brain lesions to symptoms - they usually do. If something is wrong with my leg - they say it's my T-spine or possibly something in my lumbar spine (which they don't image) that's wrong. If something is wrong in my hands, they say it's C-Spine. The numbness in my trunk? They associate with my T-spine lesions.

I am elated to see that this article addresses the difference in spinal versus brain lesions at least a little bit.

Now, if I could just my MS Specialist to read it and get on board with it...that would be a different story.

Thanks for posting again!