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Mri
I am Stage 1 (T1c), 55, and NED. Over a year after treatment I had a week of vertigo problems with spinning head and nausea. However, there was also a new sensation where whenever I bent over to try to reach over and clip back the salmonberry bushes it felt like my "gyroscope" completely failed and I could not tell up from down at all, so I was constantly falling all over the place in the garden and in the house no matter how hard I tried to right myself. My internist did all the in-office basic neurologic testing and maneuvers, and together we decided to just monitor it without any more sophisticated testing. He's very conscientious with me and it probably was a little hard for him not to just order an MRI. I don't really know what caused the problem.
In the last 2 weeks I've had a problem with balance, with the sense of continually ending up heading to the left when I'm trying to go straight ahead, so I have to aim to the right to get where I'm trying to go. I rarely get headaches but have had them this week continuously. My internist checked me out again and we talked about MRI, but I have put it off for now. The sense of loss of balance has cleared up and finally with an aspirin last night the headaches have too.
There is no easy way for us to tell whether to get the MRI or not. I'm not at all afraid of results, but I'm not convinced I really need one. I would like to see better information provided to us and our PCPs about this by oncologists.
AlaskaAngel
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