Posted by lc bob on March 25, 1999 at 20:13:02:
In Reply to: CH and MRI/MRA posted by Rob on March 25, 1999 at 19:16:47:
if you have CH, it'll show nothing. but you should do it to eliminate other possibilities (MS, etc).
someone posted that the value of the MRI is relative to what is being looked for .. .that is, it only reveals X if you're looking for X ... i don't know, but that sounds sound to me. considering that noone knows what causes CH, there'd be no way to "look" for CH on an MRI ... but they know what other head probs look like ... they'll look for those ... if they're not there, then you'll probably be called a clusterhead by the process of elimination.
not great science ... but have the MRI done to be sure what it isn't.
pain freedom is a human right!
-lcb