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Anyone else MRI look pretty normal and still have MS?

  For the last 3 weeks my symptoms started to get worse before they got better. I finally went to the doctor after putting it off until things got worse.
  I started with severe left leg cramping all day and night and weak left arm. Then I had and still have right hand tremors. It got to be where I could not walk across the room without both my legs feeling like I had a long workout.
My blood work , and EMG came back normal. My MRI just came back however my doctor will not be back in town until next week.
  It looks like this is the only thing that came back:

Lumbar was normal

Brain: 1. No evidence of acute intracranial infarction or abnormal intracranial enhancement.  
           2. Subtle nonspecific FLAIR signal hyperintensity is present along the margins of the lateral ventricles, but no discrete or classic demyelinating lesions are identified. If there is suspicion for early nonunion disease, correlation with CSF studies may be helpful.

Any input would be great !
Thank you
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987762 tn?1671273328
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Hi and welcome,

I personally don't think there was anything diagnostically suggestive found on your MRI......'contiguous with the margins of the lateral ventricles on FLAIR images', are from my understanding frequent normal finding, so unless (as Alex mentioned) you have any clinically abnormal neurological test results, that are suggestive of a neurological causation, your results are probably not specific enough to lead in any specific direction.  

Cheers........JJ
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667078 tn?1316000935
Are your neurological exams reflexes and such abnormal? They can tell if you have neurological damage and where it is from the exam.

Alex
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