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Dr. Andrew Rynne
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Dr. Andrew Rynne

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Exp 50 years

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I Am Having A Lot Of Symptoms Such As All

I am having a lot of symptoms such as all over, constant, fasciculations, muscle cramps, weakness, slurred speech, forgetting words, and a long list of other odd things. EMG was normal and I was having no twitches during the EMG (though I did after and took in video recordings of my twitches and tremors). (I also know the EMG is only as goog as the doctor, and only 3 muscles were checked, and they were my non twitching muscles.) I had an MRI specifically looking to rule out an acoustic neuroma, because I also get sudden deafness that is only restored through steroids. The MRI said, "nonenhancing punctate focus of altered signal in left pario-occipital white matter usually attributed to nonspecific gliosis"

Now, my neurologist got a copy of the report and put in my patient portal that all looks good.

But aren't gliosis's a response to CNS damage? and with all of my CNS symptoms shouldn't they look into that more? Should there be a second MRI with a different focus or is the other one adequate?
posted on Sun, 21 Oct 2018
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