Shouldn’t have looked at my MRI results. Please help.
Hello, this is my first ever Reddit post but probably because I’ve never been this scared before. Let me explain my whole story and how I ended up having an MRI of my brain.
In September 2024, I woke up one morning with pink eye & two days later I started experiencing what I was told was BPPV. The room didn’t spin, but I had nystagmus and constantly felt drunk. I felt this way until the first week of October 2024, so about a full month. This went away and I thought I was in the clear. Come the week of Thanksgiving 2024, I started to feel sort of dizzy again. Not as intense as before, and it only last 3-4 days. I saw an ENT, who marked me as clear and told me that sometimes there is just residual BPPV that can happen. After this, I went on my way. Fast forward to January 2025, I feel dizzy again. This time for about a week. Again, it’s still not as intense as the first time. But at this point, I’m so anxious I am digging for answers as to why I keep getting random dizzy spells. My doctors concluded it was due to my sinuses. I developed a muscle spasm in my neck from the stress & anxiety, which was subsided but could still be a considerable symptom here.
I received my MRI on February 25th and these were the impressions:
- Marked cerebellar tonsillar ectopia, consistent with Chiari malformation.
- Focal T2 hyperintense signal in the left splenium of the corpus callosum. Demyelinating disease is not excluded. Correlate clinically.
- Prominent developmental venous angioma in the right cerebellum.
I am absolutely terrified of what this could mean, specifically the T2 hyper intense signal. I have never been prone to headaches or any other random symptoms. I would say I was completely healthy prior to my pink eye/vertigo situation. I work out 5 days a week, try to eat well all the time. I do have idiopathic scoliosis that I received a spinal fusion for at 15. I am 25F.
I’m so terrified this could be MS or a tumor, or cancer. As I’m writing this, I have no symptoms of anything which is why I feel even more confused. Please help. I asked my doctor for this MRI, he didn’t think I needed one and now I am so scared I almost wish I hadn’t.