Something found on MRI

[Mamaux]

Just after a general handhold I think. On Sunday, I collapsed with an almighty pain in my back. It took 3 hours before I could get off the floor and 24 hours before I could stand. I'm still suffering with this but it is slowly getting better.

I went to A and E and they ordered an MRI. They found an "incidental finding" during the scan of my back as luckily decided to scan the top of the spine as well. Although they think my back pain is not linked, they have found what looks like a bubble on my spinal cord. I asked if it was dodgy and all they said was, there shouldn't be anything there and I'll need further tests from a neurosurgeon.

During this conversation, they asked more neurological questions. I have been suffering with pins and needles in arms and legs since my son (now 3) was born and am beginning to be extremely clumsy. Doctors tried to diagnose me with CFS but I refused because they jaunt investigated anything.

I don't suppose anyone has gone through this type of thing? My mind has gone straight to the negative and I'm scared I'm going to leave my children without a parent. I think this is a mixture of being incapacitated and my poor little one being on his own with me when I initially collapsed - my worst fear.

Hi OP. This sounds scary, hope you're okay. Are you due to see a neurologist to go over the MRI results?

Thank you for replying. The hospital said I should hear from the neurosurgeons with an appointment within a week - so hopefully that should be early next week. I know they can't tell you anything when they don't have the answers, but it's been the longest week of my life being told there is something to worry about but how much to worry is yet to be decided 🙄

There is a good chance it is nothing to worry about. Frequent scans these days pick up these incidental findings. That finding could well be a harmless part of your anatomy you have had all your life that is completely normal for you - some people just have a remnant of the central canal in their spinal cord. It can be normal. The neurosurgeon is best qualified to decide if that is all it is so it is always referred to one.

I agree with the above poster. It wasn't my spine but my liver, they found a lesion on an ultrasound which they weren't sure what it was. I had to have a special kind of scan but in the end it was not anything life threatening- just one of those incidental finding type things.

The waiting is the worse, I've been there. Hope you are okay. Here to chat if you need to :)

I have what a non neurological doctor would describe as a "bubble" sitting on my spinal cord. As in inside the spine.
The neurologist explained it was a cavernoma. Which is a non cancerous lesion made from blood products.
So really a tumour, in the form of a blackberry, with the berry being filled with blood.
Mines is inoperable. So it's a watch and wait situation.
They are common in the brain .not so common in the spine. And are often found incidentally.
Mines was not. Mine had bled out a Little which resulted in a kind of stroke. So I do have the pins and needles/ numbness/ pain etc. which is how the discovered mine.
When I look at my X-rays it does look like a bubble.

That's really interesting @gloriawasright . I wonder whether that is what mine will turn out to be. They literally said a bubble in the spinal cord. I was thinking a cyst as never heard of cavernoma. Thank you for sharing that with me. I know I won't know until I speak to the neurosurgeons but I like to prepare myself for all.possibilities.

All the best @Mamaux ❤️