If I ever read a post like this I think the person is kidding themselves and that they would have been told if anything unusual was in the scan.
Here’s where I mucked up, I asked for my images and there are lesions clear as day, on the pons and hypertensive areas in other places including my right eye orbit. It was contrast free and I am waiting for a second opinion, that’s not until January.
I have posted images just to prove my brain has some changes (maybe to myself) I just wk deemed if this type of thing has ever happened to anyone else?
I wouldn’t an MS lesion from a hole in the ground so I can’t comment on that. What I can recount is my own experience years ago: I had lost most of the hearing in one ear and my MS was generally going off like a firework display. The neurologist showed me and Mr Alison 100 the reported-on scan saying that nothing had been found near the auditory nerve. Which he then pointed to. ‘What’s that, then?’ enquired Mr A100, pointing to an obvious white spot. ‘Hmm,’ said the neurologist, ‘I’ll have to discuss that at the MDT meeting.’
Mr Alison100 was quite right. It was an MS lesion and my hearing returned as if by magic after day 1 of IV steroids. So yes, things can get missed.
I haven’t a clue about the images you have posted but I’m assuming that you are referring to the white areas in the images? Why not go back to the team that arranged the MRI and point out the areas you are worried about and ask them what they are?
Apparently I have ‘quite a few lesions’ - but I’ve never asked to see my MRI images
Generally, the radiographer will analyse an MRI and advise the neurologist on their findings. It’s then the neurologist’s job to diagnose with the help of the imaging.
If the radiographer has identified the white spots as natural deterioration then the neurologist will likely discount them as lesions in context.
