15 yr old with chronic headache & Multiple white spots on MRI

I am 34 and have been having headaches for a year.  After a normal CT and an MRI with 4-5 white spots (suspicious of MS but no symptoms), they have told me that my spots could have been a demyelinating event, an olod viral infection like Chicken Pox, normal spots, spots from migraines, etc etc.  I don't have any answer from you because I am still in the same boat.  basically a neurologist has had me on the MRi checkup/workup for MS for the past year and nothing has changed.

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Jon

I have never responded to a question on a chat forum before, but imagined you must have been very concerned when you received the MRI results for your 15 yr. old! I have had severe migraines for many years. Five years ago I was told I had several areas of white "spots" in my brain. Of course, things like MS, stroke or some sort of dementia jumped to my mind! YIKES! I was 45 at the time! I had a total work-up for MS and any other kind of rare disease that might cause the problem. Everything was negative. I requested two more MRI's since then and both have been the same. My brain is as "normal" as it ever was! (Now I have nothing to blame my forgetfulness on ) And so, like the rest of the human race, it's "one day at a time."
Although you are wise to check it out, those scarey "spots" may well amount to nothing worrisome. I hope everything goes okay.
Also, I have had a drastic decrease in headaches since switching to Topomax.
Good Luck!

Hi im 16 yrs old,

I have been diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia and am currently trying out different medications to help it, such as carbomazapine and indomethacin.

I also had a mri and have a white spot on the scan. my neaurologist said it was also normal. Hope this is helpfull.

I am 18 years old and have been dealing with dreadful migraines for about 4 years. about a month and a half ago, I went for blood work for other health matter, after which I had fainted and also had convulsions and loss of bladder control. This was obviously something out of the ordinary and frightening. Since I was already at the hospital, I walked over to emergency and they did multiple blood pressure tests (standing, sitting and laying down), a few other tests as well for balance and an ECG. Everything was normal.
The following week, due to feeling fatigued for the entire week after my convulsions, I went to see my doctor, who ordered a CT scan. Although when we got the call from the technician, they said they were going to do an MRI instead because there would be no radiation.
When going for the MRI, the nurse had informed me it was going to be quick because they wouldn't be giving me the dye injection. Although when I had finished the first part of the MRI, the technician came back and told me that I would need the dye "because it was my first MRI."
The following week, we got a call scheduling me for an EEG. We also were told that in my MRI there were some abnormalities.
Long story short, I went to meet with my neurologist yesterday and my EEG turned out normal and the MRI report read that there are multiple white spots in my brain.
I am also in the same boat.
Although my neurologist is requesting a disc of my MRI before she can say anything more, because she doesn't know how many, the size and etc.
I hope everything workable out for your daughter, but on the plus side, if the neurologist didn't say it was a tumour then there's nothing to worry about.

i was in a car wreck ayear and a half ago , thought i had brain damage or some thing any way i am going to paste what i just typed for someone else , because i have been reading , and she could have twisted her neck ,playing sports or jumping on the bed , if she is like my kids , yes they still jump on the bed at that age ,anyway this might help
just had my headaches cured last month with a cervical injection , seems that after a year and a half of constant headaches the doctor who was going to do an injection to cure a compressed nerve , looked at my mri and told me that he could cure my headaches , blah blah something about facet joints , i told him please do , and fifteen minutes later the headaches were gone and haven t come back , but i do still have occipital neuralgia , which is very evident now , thought that the neurologist was off , but turns out he was right on the money with that , actually , it turns out that all of the doctors were not really wrong , just wasn t seeing the right one , until now, anyway it is good to be drug free , hope it lasts , but you need a mri and a guy who does spinal injections to read it , because apparently no one else even knows how to spot a faulty facet joint

Go to a neurologist and have a full body mri
ask about MS too