Question:
I am going for my mri next week and someone I work with said that a lot ofthings cause lesions. Is this true? If it is, how will the docs. diagnose?Are they different than other lesions?

"Lesions are scar tissue. They aren't tumours, bumps, etc. They show up on yourMRI as white spots. Your neuro will look at your symptoms, and will probablyperform blood work to rule out any other disease. My diagnosis was made on onetiny lesion on my MRI and my symptoms."

Is it right???

Answer: Lyme disease, lupus & syphilis can cause lesions that are hard todifferentiate from MS lesions sometimes. These conditions can be ruled outby testing and clinical findings. Lyme & syphilis cause a lot of tell talesymptoms that do not occur in MS patients (specific rashes, dementia, jointswelling, brain swelling, etc.) and there are tests to rule them out. Lupusis a more generalized auto-immune disease where more than just myelin isattacked. Lupus can attack joints & organs & can be detected by an ANA test(anti-nuclear antibody). Most of the time MS lesions follow a tell-talepattern that other demyelinating conditions don't. Part of an MS diagnosisis the ruling out of other conditions.