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Posted 2/9/2014 3:38 PM (GMT 0)
I had an MRI with contrast done last week because I have been getting tingling and numbness in my arms and legs. I had an MRI done 8 months ago before I knew I was infected and they found two lesions that my neurologist called freckles and said were unremarkable.

This most recent MRI has also shown these lesions but it has also shown that I have "Mild chronic small vessel ischemic changes". This means that my brain's blood vessels are getting clogged by foreign matter. On older people, this could be plaque from cholesterol. However, because the "clog" is very recent, I am thinking that it is a result from the so called FL1953 (Protomyxzoa Rheumatica). I have read that this is exactly what this parasite does; it clogs the blood vessels with its fibers.

Have any of you had or seen similar results in your MRIs?
Posted 2/10/2014 3:35 AM (GMT 0)
How are you feeling?  are you symptomatic?  what prompted the recent MRI?  i wonder if serrapeptase would be beneficial?  I hope you're feeling ok. 

 

Posted 2/10/2014 5:36 PM (GMT 0)
neuro symptoms are some of my worst symptoms. The arms and legs going numb and tingling prompted the MRI. I was also curious to see if the lesions that were found last year had grown. I did not expect to find that my brain blood vessels are getting clogged up. According to websites I have read, this puts me at a high risk for some serious health issues in the not to far future. This could explain my dexterity and motion issues that I suffer from as well as how I keep forgetting how to do things like turn off the stove, how to adjust the water in the shower, how to tie shoelaces.
Posted 2/10/2014 9:32 PM (GMT 0)
As a reminder, the numbness and tingling can also be from Neuro Lyme.

Some thoughts on the mild chronic small vessel changes that you mention.
The "Mild chronic small vessel ischemic changes" can also be attributed to Lyme disease:
"White matter lesions can also be seen in many other infectious (Lyme disease is a good example) and inflammatory conditions (sarcoidosis, connective tissue diseases which cause vasculitis in the brain). Most of these diseases can be identified with the help of a good history and some basic tests.

"White matter lesions are also commonly seen in people who suffer from migraines (more commonly seen in women migraine sufferers)."

braindiseases.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/white-matter-lesions-migraine-and-memory-problems-a-question-and-an-answer/


A lot of good info here:

www.columbia-lyme.org/patients/ld_spinal_fluid.html


Are you up to reading sciency stuff?
Look for the heading "Microvascular Ischemic White Matter Lesions", “White Matter Disease", Binswanger Disease - about 1/4 of the way down the page.
www.mdconsult.com/books/page.do?eid=4-u1.0-B978-1-4377-0434-1..00035-9--s0095&isbn=978-1-4377-0434-1&type=bookPage&from=content&uniqId=437517651-2

There's more out there too. If you are having trouble finding it, let me know and I will post some more links.

The issues you mentioned - forgetting how to tie shoelaces, turning off the stove and so on, may be from ammonia in the brain or from the infection progressing. I know for me, I had serious issues with things like that both before I started treatments and then when I was herxing badly.
Posted 2/10/2014 9:42 PM (GMT 0)
Praying for you Healing98!
Posted 2/11/2014 3:07 AM (GMT 0)
Thank you everyone! I really appreciate the advice and can certainly use the prayers.

I am actually feeling better now than I have in the recent past. Some minor pains and aches here and there, as well as some new stuff that I can't figure out where it is coming from, but aside from that, I think I am OK (knock on wood).
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