If you are still dumbfounded by the jargon in your MRI report, you may find the source material I used to finally interpret my third MRI useful reading.
Like most *normal* people I knew very few real facts about the Brain and its makeup. Consequently, I was totally unable to make any sense out of this crucial report for quite some time.
Although my Neurologist was pleased to see lesions on my MRI reports, he felt there was no need to actually discuss them. He told me that I had so many holes in my head, the third MRI report made my Brain look like Swiss cheese. 
Then he said that with this MRI now in hand, he could medically account for my various symptoms and would now complete the paper work, required to qualify me for Social Security Disability.
You can well imagine, what a huge relief this was to me; because, I had been unempolyed for three years and fighting SSA for the entire last two.
My ex-neurologist and the SSA, still judge MS Disability, only in terms of how poorly you walk!! Largely, this is due to the very biased and outdated Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS).
Mind boggling as this is... they and far too many others, still do NOT consider Sensory or Multiple Sclerosis Cognitive Dysfunction.
(Also See: Cognization )
Later I learned that where the lesions are physically located in the Central Nervous System, determine the extent and the nature of neurological deficits you experience with MS and why no two people experience identical symptoms or progression.
Knowing where the lesions are located cannot exactly foretell nor predict, what the future holds for you in terms of disability.
But the knowledge of which parts of the CNS are likely to be damaged, by the further spread of the lesions, can enable you to prepare for which deficits you most likely will face in the future.
You will gain a better appreciation of the possibilities; only if you undertake, to learn which functions are controlled by what part of the CNS.
Your present MRI is the most accurate guide, to what the future may hold; but it can't help you prepare, if you never understand what it really says. 
Because this research stems from my quest to understand my own probable course of MS, most of this material pertains to the parts and workings of the Brain itself - where the bulk of my lesions are located. 
However, even if all of your lesions are located within the Spinal Cord, it should still be helpful to understand what else the higher Brain controls through your own impaired nerve tracts.
Each one of us bears sole responsibility for the management of our own MS treatment.
Do not be intimidated by how much longer anyone else has dealt with MS; that is their MS, you have your MS, and I have my MS. They are never the same...each as unique as we each are.
Since the time of, Dr. Jean Martin Charcot (1825-1893), it has been known that over time the actual Nerve or Axon itself is destroyed in the course of MS; which further unbalances the CNS's feedback systems and gradually affects various related subsystems.
This data, plus ''Charcot's Triad'', was and is part of his historical Multiple Sclerosis description and a major reason why he is titled:
*The Father Of Multiple Sclerosis*
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