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mel07

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Re: Perhaps AN
« Reply #30 on: February 03, 2010, 10:56:48 pm »
Well I saw an ENT yesterday. He immediately suspected an AN - or MS - and sent me for MRI today.

Just got the results. Doc won't be back till MOnday to read them, but I think it's good.


IMPRESSION:
1 Findings of a few isolated foci of signal alternation within the white matter. THese are nonspecific findings and may be associated with small vessel disease/gliosis. these findings are not specific of a demyelelinsating process.
2 No specific findings of recent infarction, hemmorrage of contrast enhanced lesion.
3 No obvious abnormatlities identitfied along the 7th r 8th nerve complexes
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mel07

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Re: Perhaps AN
« Reply #31 on: February 03, 2010, 11:26:47 pm »
So i guess i still may have a brain tumour, just not a cool one.  :P
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Re: Perhaps AN
« Reply #32 on: February 04, 2010, 05:39:20 am »
Hi Mel!

I am so glad to hear you have had your MRI!
Sorry i can't interpret the results - mine was fairly definitive and i read the results long before i talk to the doc.

Please keep us posted on the interpretation - AN or not, we are glad you are here!   ;D

Sincerely,
Sue
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Re: Perhaps AN
« Reply #33 on: February 04, 2010, 02:35:07 pm »
Hi, Mel ~

Of course I'm not a doctor and cannot offer a definitive analysis of your MRI report but my 'uneducated' guess is that you do not have an acoustic neuroma .  This is good.  :)

Jim
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Re: Perhaps AN
« Reply #34 on: February 04, 2010, 09:31:04 pm »
Mel,
Hmmmm, who knows what you have? But nothing toooooo alarming, I guess.
Let us know what the doc says on monday.
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mel07

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Re: Perhaps AN
« Reply #35 on: February 05, 2010, 10:36:17 pm »
Thank you all for bearing with me. Of course i will know nothing till monday, and even then i think i will find a neuro, rather than go back to that ENT. I don't want to jump the gun, but I really have a lot of neurological issues (the hearing loss was actually the least of them until the tinnitus), and I think a neuro-opthalmologist will be my next stop. I have many, many scotomas in my vision and visual migraines and the hearing loss was the straw etc. I will let you guys know, of course. Blesssings. x
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« Reply #36 on: February 06, 2010, 12:25:51 am »
My amateur read would be that #1 is saying you don't have MS; #2 is saying you haven't had a stroke and don't have a tumor; and #3 is saying you don't have an AN.

I have an occasional scintillating scotoma (love that term), fortunately not followed by any headache. Frequent ones would indicate an neuro-opthalmologist is in order, so that sounds like a good plan. I hope you get to the bottom of it!

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mel07

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Re: Perhaps AN
« Reply #37 on: February 09, 2010, 10:09:24 pm »
Hi again and thanks Steve. You put my mind at rest over the weekend.
Apparently I was meant to have an appointment with the ENT yesterday, but I missed it ... anyway, I rang them and asked the receptionist for a reading of the MRI report over the phone. She told it was "pretty unremarkable" and didn't suggest I come in. So I guess that's a good thing. Will keep you posted. Thank you again for all your input and support.
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Re: Perhaps AN
« Reply #38 on: February 09, 2010, 10:15:52 pm »
Denial is no longer just a river in Egypt! I had hoped too that it was just ear wax in my left ear that prevented me from hearing well. But a 3cm AN caught me off guard. It is a better idea to get the MRI done so that you can move on in life whether a AN is present or not.
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Re: Perhaps AN
« Reply #39 on: February 10, 2010, 06:40:06 am »
Mel -

glad to hear you don't have an AN.

Jan
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mel07

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Re: Perhaps AN
« Reply #40 on: February 10, 2010, 10:03:42 am »
Of course I'm relieved at this news - but there's still the matter of the sensori-neural hearing loss and tinnitus.   ???

PLUS, worrier that I am, I'm still not 100% convinced they didn't miss something. This MRI was done in a small town, not a large hospital. I had contrast, but I'm wondering whether it's possible to overlook if it it's really small, say like 2mm. I'm not sure where I read this, but there was a poster who said he had FOUR MRIs before they found his AN ....
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leapyrtwins

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Re: Perhaps AN
« Reply #41 on: February 10, 2010, 11:04:01 am »
Mel -

ANs are notorious for being misdiagnosed, but usually by the time someone has a MRI - often one of the last steps - it's evident.

IMO even if you have a very small AN, a MRI - no matter where it's done - should detect it.

Lots of people have tinnitus without any reason given for it and sensori-neural hearing loss can be attributed to many things other than ANs.

I hope you get some answers soon,

Jan
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mel07

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Re: Perhaps AN
« Reply #42 on: February 10, 2010, 03:44:29 pm »
Thank you all so much! I will come back and let you know what it is - at the moment, it's "idiopathic", which of course is a fancy way of saying "I dunno".

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