MRIs
I have gotten a yearly MRI for the past 3 years and they have always been of my head, neck and spine with gad. Most damage is in my neck and spine.
This year my MS Neuro only ordered me an MRI of my head with had. I didn’t notice until I got my MRI. Why would this be? I don’t think this would give me me an accurate picture to see if my MS has progressed. Has this happened to anyone else?
Hey there @spunky. Your profile says you have Optic Neuritis. In 2017 you posted saying you’d had no new attacks or symptoms. 2017 was a while ago of course, and I hope that your MS is continuing to be stable. If the above is the case, maybe your neuro’s chief concern after several years is to continue to monitor your brain since your main symptom was Optic Neuritis. Does the damage that is seen in your neck and spine manifest in disability? If no, maybe your neuro doesn’t feel he needs to monitor your spine for progression, pending an actual new symptom. We all want to make sure our doctors are doing the right thing by our MS. Clear explanations from them are the best way to keep patients from thinking there are problems when there may not be any. Keep on truckin’
@spunky Ref the gond. Apparently they don't want to use it to much after they know you have MS for sure. I'm having an MRI tomorrow just for my head. I reckon it's to keep the costs down.... they already know you have it and do the minimum to make it look like they care. I see it as just a box ticking exercise sometimes, for the benefit of them rather than you. What made me start to think like that was my MS nurse telling me they had RULES to follow. To which I replied best you tell my MS that coz I really don't think it's playing by the rules, what you gonna do about that?