About a year ago I started having periodic blurry vision. It would come and go so I didn’t think much more into it. Then about 5 months ago I started feeling dizzy and remained that way. Then the tips of my fingers on my left hand went numb. The numbness progressed through my hand, up my arem and down my left side to my waist. I was admitted into the hospital where they found a lesion in my cervical spine and a small one in my brain. I had a spinal tap which came back negative for MS. However, my neurologist has told me that the negative result this time doesn’t rule out MS. I just had another MRI with and without contract and I am trying to figure out what it means. Please help. I have pasted the results below.
Again appreciated is a hyperintense lesion within the leftward aspect of medulla (this was previously described within the pons).
It is unchanged in size measuring roughly 5 mm. No enhancement of that lesion is appreciated.
Again seen is focal thickening of the cervical cord posterior to the C2 vertebral body. Degree is unchanged at approximately 9 mm.
There is continued hyperintense T2 signal within the cervical cord at that region suggesting edema. However, the degree of T2 signal has decreased. In addition, the enhancement seen within that lesion previously is no longer present. Overall, no enhancing lesions within the cervical cord are appreciated.
Prevertebral soft tissues are unremarkable in appearance.