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So my ID doctor sent me in for an mri. He said he'd get back to me with the results but after 3 weeks of waiting I just went over to the medical records department and picked up the results myself.
Anyone have any idea what this means?
Nonspecific non enhancing focus of increased FLAIR and T2 signal adjacent to the right temporal horn is indeterminate; no associated mass effect. Follow up study in 6 months is recommended to assess for interval change.
From what I can gather the FLAIR and T2 signal are imaging techniques and they picked up something in my temporal horn that is indeterminate. No mass effect probably means not a tumor. And they want me to come back in 6 months to see if it's changed any.
Is this language indicating a potential lesion or is it something else or just as it says something indeterminate.
I thought maybe someone else who has had an MRI might know.
It's lame that my Dr. never bothered to follow up with me. I've left him a couple messages too. He's supposedly not on vacation or anything.
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Your interpretation of the comments is right on target - increased signal will either be a lesion or an artifact, but they aren't committing to an interpretation.
From what I understand, most lyme/associated dz-related contrast MRI's will have no significant findings because the lesions are microscopic / early small vessel disease. Have you considered an fMRI instead? At least you could get an idea of bloodflow.
At least my brains ability to google complicated info hasn't been damaged. :-)
My ID doc ordered the test but he is not Lyme literate at all and he never even followed up with me to explain my MRI. I doubt he will order a fMRI but I will ask him if he ever gets back to me.
My neuro symptoms are no where near as bad as they had been in the past so for now I'm going to just focus on treating the Lyme & co's with my LLMD.
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