Hope im doing this right, but i need answers and im really hoping someone can help. for the last 2 weeks ive been having "spells"....arm getting numb and tingly, feeling of dreaminess, trouble walking and slurred speech, this things happen in "spurts"....hospital said STROKE, but MRI showed lesions. My doc was unwilling to answer many questions, but said "probably ms and we will refer you to a neuro"...problem is, when i read the MRI report, it kinda sounds like "hey, this chic has 20 lesions, but none are active"...which makes me think, hmmmm....if none are active, why am i having so many sypmtoms and why now? I was hoping if i posted some of this lingo from the Mri on here, someone could help me understand it, so here it is, and im sorry for all the "junk", just nervous, i have 5 girls, and im a photographer and hard to wait to have the neuro explain all this lingo...
"Greater than 20 supratentorial rounded areas of high signal intensity measuring 5-7 mm are seen predominantly scattered throughout the subcortical white matter of the frontal and parietal lobes bilaterally. Three of these are in a periventricular location. None of the white matter lesions are juxtacortical in locatin. None of these lesions demonstrate mass effect or enhancement. No posterior fossa lesions are identified. The ventricles and sulci are normal in size and position without midline shift or mass effect. None of the white matter lesions demonstrate decreased signal intensity on the spin echo T1 weighted images precontrast."