MS Twitching After MRI?

[austignite2020]

I went through lots of the posts. It seems that many people suspected MS first and got an MRI. Many people said they didn't start twitching until after the MRI. I know I didn't start twitching until after the MRI. Is there a pattern here? Please respond.

 

[angusglover]

I got the MRI because I twitched...like many others...

 

[Krackersones]

I started twitching a year after an MRI so I don't think I could make the link. Wish I could though. Not knowing why is so frustrating.

 

[AllGoodHere]

Same here - MRI after symptoms. Stabbing pains in back initiated MRI which allowed view of 2 herniated discs perhaps due to muscle spasms or little green men coming in the night to lift me into their saucer. (The neuro wasn't sure which it was and couldn't commit).

 

[TompeteA]

I started twitching 3 months after MRI, it was the first MRI I have ever had

 

[austignite2020]

Tom - Did you get MRI with contrast? My twitching started about 3 weeks after the MRI with contrast. I think I might be reaching at straws, but it's something to consider if other people make a connection. Thank you.

 

[Lilly5]

I've actually thought the same thing. My very first visit to the Neuro was for headaches. He sent me for an MRI with contrast die to scan for a tumor. I started getting all of my symptoms 4 weeks after the MRI. Numb leg, myclonus jerks while sleeping, muscle cramps and non-stop twitching. I sometimes wish I never went in for the MRI, because I've had nothing but problems since.Lily

 

[AllGoodHere]

I just had a regular MRI - I don't they could have talked me into injecting anything as I have been afraid of this since I had a friend who developed complications after another injection method for imaging. Did you have gandolium-based contrast injected? I hope this doesn't freak you out - I would guess you don't have kidney disease - but I thought you may want to know that there had been problems with it and you can find out what your contrast fluid actually was. Anyway there is some info at FDA about gandolium-based contrast agents but they are only in relation to people with kidney disease...... see Always a chance that there is some chelation technique they could use to clear it out of your body like they do with other metal contaminants - I know these techniques are more common and accepted in Europe than in the US.

 

[NinaPost]

I suspected MS at first as did the neurologist because I had so much numbness. However, I also had twitching before my MRI. It's a pity there isn't more research so that we don't have to keep guessing at what causes it and how to cure it.

 

[TompeteA]

My first MRI did not have contrast. I have had one since with contrast, about a year later

 

[abraxas]

I had an MRI with contrast because I developed a light tinnitus. I had massive convulsions DURING the MRI (the tech nearly freaked out when he saw me) but the twitching started long before that and didn't get any worse because of it, either.