MRI report: no news is good news
The MRI outfit finally dragged themselves into the twentieth century, and gave me a digital copy of the data. Here's a comparison picture of two of the lesions, courtesy of AMIDE. The picture is in the FLAIR modality, which, of the commonly-used MRI modalities, is the best for looking for MS lesions. The left image is from 2005, and the right image from 2006. You should be able to click on the image to get a 2x larger image, to which I've added a little red X under each lesion:
I abstained from Flagyli for five weeks prior to the MRI exam, so that anything that did enhance with gadolinium would have meant disease activity rather than inflammationi produced by bacterial die-off due to Flagyl.
Again, these two images aren't directly comparable; for instance, the third lesion is also visible in the 2005 image, but not in this particular 2006 image; but that isn't because it disappeared, but rather because in the 2006 series it's in the next slice, not in this slice.
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Thanks Norman for showing us these. Stability is good, it is the platform for improvement. I've never seen these kinds of images of lesions before so an education for me.
Michele: on Wheldon protocol since 1st May 2006 for a variety of long standing ailments including IBSi, sinusitis, alopeciai, asthmai, peripheral neuropathy, also spokesperson for Ella started Wheldon CAPi 16th March 2006 for RRMSi
Michèle (UK) GFAi: Wheldon CAPi 1st May 2006. Daily Doxyi, Azi MWF, metroi pulse.
Norman- Thanks for the pictures. Very clear, and very attractive supra-orbitals I might add-- and I don't just say that to any cranium on the block.
Seriously, though, this is great news to have. You are such a good observor of your treatment process, but it's good to see the results in black and white too. Amazing how the technology has gotten much clearer images. Even I can locate these lesions, where most scans from prior technology were a mystery to me.
How do you compare your actual functional status to this. Have you had functional improvements or does the MRI reflect the functional reality?
CAPi for Chlamydia pneumonia since 11/04. 25yrs CFSi & FMSi- Currently: 150mg INHi, 300mg Rifampin, 200 Doxycycline, 500mg mwf Azithromycin, plus 500mg Tinidazole 2x/day pulses every two weeks. Whew! That's a lot!
CAPi for Cpni 11/04. Dxi: 25+yrs CFSi & FMSi. Currently: 250 aithromycin mwf, doxycycline 100mg BIDi, restarted Tinii pulses; Vit D2000 units, T4 & T3, 6mg Iodoral
In general, I'm functioning better mentally, in a variety of ways that are hard to pin down exactly.
If it's pretty pictures you like, here's one:
That's two images combined. The benefit of my staying completely motionless for 45 minutes was that these two images aligned perfectly. Both of them are T1 modality; the second one was taken after IV injection of gadolinium. The first one is colored white, and the second one colored red; added together, they produce the above image. You can see blood vessels, colored red, snaking through the brain. This image has nothing to do with any pathology; I just think it's pretty neat.
Hi Norman,
These are amazingly clear images. I didn't realize they could be this clear actually. Thanks for sharing them. And I'm glad to hear you are functioning better too...
On Combined Antibiotic Protocol for Cpni in Rosaceai since 01/06
Treatment for Rosaceai
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems. Mohandas Gandhi
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems. Mohandas Gandhi
Norman, Good for you! Now, which lesion do you think might be related to that ultra-dark sense of humor?
Joyce~caregiver-advocate in Dallas for Steve J (SPMSi) / Cpni indicated by reactions; Mpn, EBVi, CMV positive; elevated heavy metals; gluten+casein sensitive / Wheldon CAPi since Aug. '06 - doxycycline+azithromycin+flagyl pulses; antivirals; chelation; LDNi.
Joyce~caregiver-advocate in Dallas for Steve J (SPMSi). CAPi since August 06, Cpni, Mpn, B. burgdorferi, systemic candidiasis, EBVi, CMV & other herpes family viral infectionsi, elevated heavy metals, gluten+casein sensitivity.
Face? I'll show you a face....
Damn, you do look like kind of a badass in that one... I think it's the boot camp hairstyle/brainstyle that does it. Or is it that stuff hanging out your nose? All things considered it's a formidable effect.
Man, I definitely want an MRI now. I kinda opted out on a chance to get one when I was in the hospital. I guess nothing would probably have come up, CFSi being more of a SPECT thing. But they failed to duly advise me that it would look totally cool anyway.
They are sure making some cool moves these days with real-time MRI. I have a dilettante interest in cog sci / philosophy of mind. I can't possibly conceive of the mind being immaterial, or material either - especially with respect to free choice/will. All the reconsiliations I've read (in dilettante precis anyway) seem like a real load of BS.