MS MRI with contrast

New diagnosis and before diagnosis
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Hello all

The doctors referred me to a MS clinic despite me not having the usual symptoms or having the highest suspicion of me having MS… they’re doing it mainly for a peace of mind for both parties.

So today the big day came where I had an MRI scan to investigate potential MS. Before it began, they said they may use contrast on request of the doctor, which they ended up doing for the final 15 minutes. Is this a bad sign that they may have found something? The scan lasted about 30-40 minutes.

I’m worried because they said they might use contrast depending on what they find and if they actually need to and now I’m overthinking that that may of found something bad….

Thanks :slight_smile:

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Sometimes contrast isn’t needed if the scan pictures are really clear, such as on a 3 tesla scanner. The images on a 1.5 are much poorer, so contrast may help with those. Contrast will only show up very recent lesions though.