flare up...relapse? i always feel the same

[Tawanda]

Hi Lisa
I'm the same as you, except for the headaches.

2 years 3 months since Dx, did Rebif for 7 months, and Ty for the past 15 months.

Although my current problems continue to worsen, the only plus is that my MRI's stay the same.
Never "flares" or improvement.

I am confused...is a "stable" MRI a good thing or a bad thing?

Why would symptoms get worse and an MRI remain the same...wouldn't worsening symptoms result in more lovely plaques?

I have had this disease officially for almost a decade and I don't know if I am doing good or bad for a person who has M.S.! I suppose there are probably about a million different indicators, but since an MRI does not seem to be one of them, I stopped getting them!

[Tawanda]

I can't really explain the problem; I just feel like crap.

Me too! Good thing I'm not a contender for First Lady because this is the ONLY way I can seem to articulate my M.S. to anyone willing to ask me what I'm dealing with.

[Mamabug]

I am confused...is a "stable" MRI a good thing or a bad thing?

Why would symptoms get worse and an MRI remain the same...wouldn't worsening symptoms result in more lovely plaques?

...

I don't know the answer to that. That's a good question, and one that I would ask my MS Specialist if it was happening to me. Although I had 7 MRI's in my first two years with MS, though (prior to dx), I've only had one in the past 8 years. It was in 2008, when I switched doctors, and she questioned my MS dx and wanted to confirm it (which she did).

I hope that, if you ask your doctor about that, you can obtain a straight answer.

~ Faith