Brilliant - thank you Karen. 
H x
I have now read about 6 times and it seems to have stuck!
I will now be ready going into my Neuro appointment!
Thank you Karen x
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LOL The sixth time is a charm
I have absolutely no idea why though!!!
For those of you who think we are mad, I told Laura that I used to tell my students, “If you don’t get it, read it six times, out loud if necessary.” It always seems to work
Kx
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Fabulous post! Brought back all the stuff I used to know when I did my Medical Science degree 9 years ago but then never pursued further. Thank you for the refresher! It’s all becoming relevant again now I’m personally having problems.
Thank you!
Nat x
Thank you for taking the time to do this, much appreciated!
Could u help me… My mri said this … mri brain shows cerebral spinal fluid flow artifacts are present with increased signal in the occipital lobes adjacent to the occipital horns … what does this mean? Thank u so very much
I’ve replied on your thread
Kx
Thank you Karen, will be interested to see what or if or how they can diagnose on the Old Mac scale as I can’t be MRI’d. PS my doc said when you give birth you lose brain cells with the placenta, as I’ve had 6 children I’m guessing I don’t have a lot of brain cells left!
Whoops don’t know why I sent a blank one. It was really useful thanks [will have to read it several more times though]
Helen
Just new to this Forum, was diagnosed last September and I think I have finally taken my head out of the sand and accepted that I really do have MS. Especially after yet another bad fall yesterday!
Think I’ll go read the post from Karen now as it looks really interesting and I might learn something - Hopefully that everything might not be as bad as I’ve been thinking.
TC
This is great Karen. When it says high spots or elisions in two or more areas of the brain for MS diagnosis is this peri ventricular plus one of the other two or can it be two areas of peri ventricular? My MRI report says ‘one or two small high signal abnormalities seen in the peri ventricular white matter tracts this is particularly the case anterior lot on the left. Sagital imaging suggests these are perpendicular to the corpus callosum raising pissibility of demylenation. No florid signal changes elsewhere, no lesions on brain stem, cerebellar lesions, cervical spine unremarkable except disc bulge with stenosis at C5/6.’ I am not sure how there can be 1 or 2 high signals and then ‘mainly’ anteriorly on left. If there are only 1 or 2 they are either there or in that area and another or there must be more than 2 - sorry picking apart English By the way is migraine visible on MRI I had a headache that day on left hand side which got worse in the machine.
This is great Karen. When it says high spots or lesions in two or more areas of the brain for MS diagnosis is this peri ventricular plus one of the other two or can it be two areas of peri ventricular? My MRI report says ‘one or two small high signal abnormalities seen in the peri ventricular white matter tracts this is particularly the case anteriorly on the left. Sagital imaging suggests these are perpendicular to the corpus callosum raising possibility of demylenation. No florid signal changes elsewhere, no lesions on brain stem, cerebellar lesions, cervical spine unremarkable except disc bulge with stenosis at C5/6.’ I am not sure how there can be 1 or 2 high signals and then ‘mainly’ anteriorly on left. If there are only 1 or 2 they are either there or in that area and another or there must be more than 2 - sorry picking apart English By the way is migraine visible on MRI I had a headache that day on left hand side which got worse in the machine.
Hi Karen
I am newly diagnosed 20th Aug 2013, and have felt myself swimming though a sea of previously unknown names, words, abbreviations and acronyms, your post will become my first port of call to deciphering them.
Many thanks for your route map on this new and daunting journey.
Sara
Hi Karen I have been recently diagnoised July of this year. My consultant told me face to face and let me see my images from the mri scan. He showed me a couple of bright marks on my scan and on my spine. While we were looking at the scan he did show me some marks which were darker in colour he did not fully explain what these were but he did go on to say I have had ms for quite some time without displaying any outward symptons. My query really is do you think these particular slightly darker marks are older marks to do with the ms for him to stay I have had it for some time? Many thanks for your help x
Thank you. Very useful reading! It’s very much appreciated
Thanks a lot that makes its a bit clearer
hiya
please note the date when this thread was started!
however i note alot of new folk around that may find this info useful. karen is not currently posting/around and i ask u to respect this and dont ask her questions. i can tell you that she is fine and i trust she wont mind me pointing out this info to others.
ellie x
Is the amount of lesions relative to how bad, maybe your ms has become?
Thanks for posting all this information, its great and I understand the criteria. However I do not understand what “enhanced” means. Here is what it said:
There are multiple punctate areas of peripheral white matter hyperintenity.
there is a posterior focal area of periventricular high signal with two similar areas on the right that appear to be inferior callosal. There are several juxta cortical lesions particularly in the right frontal and right parietal regions.
there does not appear to be any associated cavitation.
these lesions do not appear to enhance.
no other abnormality is seen intracranially. The intracranial arterial vasculature remains normal in appearance.
Comment: The study was compared to that performed on 1/06/13. Periventricular/Pericallosal lesions.
: There is no evidence to suggest any involvement of the temporal or occipital regions nor the posterior fossa structures.
: There is no cavitation or enhancement
0verall, there appears to be some relative increase in size of at least 2 lesions within the frontal lobe and a possible periventricular pattern that also appears to have increased in prominence. Although not conclusive , these changes make the possiblity of underlying demyelination a little more likely. Does this corrolate with other clinical tests?
My Neurologist still thinks the findings are nothing to worry about however obviously the Radiologist does suggest the possibilities of MS.
Whats enhacement mean? and why are the lecions getting bigger?
I am very worried.
Thanks in advance x
Hi anon, Not sure about the lesions getting bigger, but I think ( don’t quote me on this) that the fact they are not enhanced means they are not active? :-/ J x