White matter disease associated with migraine headaches

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2 жыл бұрын

White matter lesions are seen commonly on MRI brain scans. But they are nonspecific and can be seen with many things including ischemia (limited blood supply) of the small perforating vessels, demyelination such as in multiple sclerosis, old injury, vasculitis, infection such as Lyme disease, or migraine headaches.
In this video we see a typical pattern seen in patients with migraine headaches.

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@wilhelmu 2 жыл бұрын

I was looking for it, thank you

@user-bamaman 10 ай бұрын

I was recently diagnosed with white brain matter disease, AKA leukodystrophy. It took me a very very long time to find the correct doctor to even take a good look at my MRI 2:36 . A while back when i knew something was off I had a few MRIs of my brain. And this one doctor said and I quote (it looks dramatic) wth?! He had no idea what he was looking at?? So I pinched a nerve in my neck, needed surgery because my left arm was tingling painfully before it would just go numb. Well not even two weeks after the surgery I herniated a disc in my back. Well I'm at the spin center, and I remembered my friend telling me about a world wide renowned neurologist in my state who specializes in MS and brain injuries. So I asked the pain clinic doctor if he'd refer me to him. I didn't think the doctor would accept a new patient. Well by the grace of God he took me in. So he started the process, after seeing my first MRI and immediately knew it was White brain matter also called leukodystrophy. So like a actual good doctor does is to start ruling other things out instead of jumping to conclusions. He wrote it up as demyelinating disease. I'm shocked that allll of these supposed doctors I had been seeing for numerous years could not see it or even know what they were looking at!! I just had my 6 month appointment with him and I haven't had a recent MRI in a few years and it's time to see if it's progressed any. He told me a while back, and my mother was with me at this appointment. He said if you get one more White matter spot in your brain then you more than likely have MS! Omg! I do have obvious symptoms that i never talk about. One being I get so confused when I'm simply trying to count money, and it is elementary with the bills I have. Like $20 dollar bills should be the easiest thing to count and It should take you one time to count it correctly. Well, I'll start counting it, and by the time I count it I cannot remember exactly how much it was. I will literally have to count it to $100 and put it to the side. And repeat another count to $100 or whatever it might be. I have to separate the cash into different piles of $100 dollars. When I'm finished I can count each pile of $100 and I'll know how much it is. But the One symptom that is bothering me is, I will see little floating stars for a few seconds. You know kinda like if you had hit your head really hard on something, and sometimes you'll literally see those stars because you just knocked the S!!T out of your head. But I'll be doing nothing whatsoever and all of a sudden these little stars pop up floating around, I'm just looking at them until they disappear. One more issue is, and I have always had great eyesight. Well I can't read the bottom line on my TV anymore. You guys know what I'm saying, these news networks or sports networks will have all of this info scrolling at the bottom of the screen. I cannot read or see it any longer

@shawnsh 7 ай бұрын

thank you so much for your detailed description of white matter disease and your symptoms. I truly hope and wish you can somehow limit any further growth this substance. Do you happen to know what helps reduce / eliminate the existing White Matter and can prevent new lesions please?

@user-gy7lz7zd4u 7 ай бұрын

@@shawnsh Check into serrapeptase, nattokinase and lumbrokinase.

@user-gy7lz7zd4u 7 ай бұрын

I have had severe headaches all my life. Blurring vision, seeing stars suddenly and lost vision in my right eye many times. Waiting on MRI results.

@jingwills6267 7 ай бұрын

Oh God, I was also just diagnosed with white matter lesions, and I can also see kaleidoscope once in a while. I will go to a specialist soon when my new insurance will be in place.

@rafadacka9996 7 ай бұрын

check your iron and hemoglobin levels in blood.

@raloufen4292 3 ай бұрын

Rather good images. Thanks

@Csmiles0 Жыл бұрын

Thank u for showing this.

@togetherness2000 2 жыл бұрын

Nice case👍🏻

@NikkiSoFar 2 жыл бұрын

Would love you to interpret a case with MS 🤔

@Anchorlesss Жыл бұрын

Would you consider a “single left frontal punctate subcortical white matter signal abnormality” to be similar to this and to only mean migraines?

@shawnsh 7 ай бұрын

Do you happen to know what helps reduce / eliminate the existing White Matter and can prevent new lesions please?

@Mr292000 2 жыл бұрын

Good

@audreybutcher7918 Жыл бұрын

I have white matter disease but I’ve never had a migraine and I don’t have ms. What would it be?

@joyceramnarain2154 2 ай бұрын

Hi tnx 4 info.what causes migraine headaches

@cct5314 2 ай бұрын

I had chronic Daily Migraines since 2008 ( all day, everyday )

@kimberlyrice4294 9 ай бұрын

But what are the white spots and what do they mean? Do they affect other brain/body functions or cause other symptoms in addition to migraine? I’m 66 & have had migraines since I was a teenager, about 30 years of which were chronic. It’s a miracle that I am still alive, because this is the kind of pain that causes people to suicide when you just can’t stand it one minute longer. You don’t want to die, you just can’t cope with this disease and all of its numerous, sickly, social, & financial ramifications any longer.

@user-bamaman 9 ай бұрын

He explained it like this. Imagine the cord running from your spine to your brain. It's like a cable cord that runs to your TV to give it the picture. Well my cord running up the top of my spine to my brain is I guess you could say fuzzy. Like the TV is in white noise. It doesn't send clear signals to my brain. And to much White matter doesn't compute it correctly. Now we all have white brain matter. It's just mine is advancing at the age of 44. Too much white matter is no good. The reference I made above, being the cord sending the signals that control my thoughts and the way I behave, act and all the other abilities I'm currently losing. Such as paranoia, severe anxiety, major depression and so on. I did ask him if it would bring on early dimentia and he said no. But there is no cure and the disease will progress gradually until I'm more than likely disabled. Simple things that should be well, simple I'm having to think about it when I used to be able to just react because it was a normal routine. My next appointment with him in 5 months I'm having my first MRI in quite a while. I just saw him on the 27th of September. Now, I can say this, he is a terrific doctor, and a wonderful man. He listens to me, understands me. And most of all DOES NOT judge me. I have been through countless doctors in my home city with nobody willing to take a real long good look at my results. One man here in one of our two local hospitals who saw my MRI, said it just looked dramatic. This came about when my mother got sick. So I carried her to the hospital. Well she asked me to go get her glasses out of the car. When I'm telling y'all, and I know this hospital like the back of my hand. I got so lost. Well I made it, finally back to her room after searching and searching. I actually walked into the wrong room. This lady was looking at me like a serial killer! I just said are you her new room mate. Damn! She got up and walked out fast! So, I left and found my mother's room. Well SOB I didn't get her glasses. So I tried two more times, going alllll the way to the car yet again. But this time I ended up on the total opposite of the damn hospital. And I told y'all I know this place really well. I had even worked there for almost a year. So by God, it was 95° and so humid. I went out the emergency room doors. And began my walk all around the hospital. Not a short distance. I was dragging my feet and didn't even realize it till I looked at my shoes. Needless to say the hospital staff saw all of this and immediately admitted me. And I still hadn't gotten my mother's glasses. So I spent 2 weeks in the hospital. Numerous MRII's. None of these doctors, or one I know. Just told me it looked "dramatic". This is when I knew I needed a specialist. And here I am waiting on the official diagnosis for MS. Oh, not to mention in freaking Narcoleptic

@user-bamaman 9 ай бұрын

And about a migraine, yes when I got discharged I did get a migraine and I threw up numerous times. I ended back up in the hospital. And when there i wouldn't stay still. So they had to assign me I guess you could say a "babysitter to keep me in my bed. They ended up dosing me with Librium. Oh boy, that kept me glued on my hospital bed. I got so focused on the TV for hours with that stuff in me.

@Tad-For-Global-Peace 3 ай бұрын

Would vestibular migraines show in an MRI? Thank you

@bobbicaress2963 2 жыл бұрын

I have that dye

@burnswhenpees Жыл бұрын

Any different than microangiopathy?

@canitbechristine 2 жыл бұрын

So do these lesions in migraine suffers cause permanent damage? What would be the kinds of effects these an cause?

@LilySaintSin 6 ай бұрын

Apparently, they don't have any permanent effects. A friend of mine has them and they don't affect her at all.

@Corso123870 6 ай бұрын

I have them in my right frontal lobe which affects memory. And believe me it definitely has affected my memory which has been getting worse. My neurologist informed me that if we do not get my migraines under control soon, I could have early Dementia as I get more damage to the white matter.

@deserttoebeanchaos 3 ай бұрын

I'm 60 and started having some cognitive issues 3 years. My neurologist never tied it to the fact that I've had mild chronic white matter microvascular ischemic changes for at least a few years. Always had an awesome memory. Today I was tutoring a student and was going to point out a reading passage was wrong. The terrorist attack wasn't on September 11, 2001. It was September 1, 2001. Then it clicked after re-looking at the info that it was correct. That scared me that I momentarily could think that.

@savagesfortruth 2 ай бұрын

I have lupus and white lesions brain feels like it’s on fire

@christinab8323 Ай бұрын

@Corso123870 I'm in the exact same boat.

@royaldramaticsthemix4104 Жыл бұрын

I have these same spots

@MRana0009 10 ай бұрын

How long???? Did you get any treatment????

@shawnsh 7 ай бұрын

Do you happen to know what helps reduce / eliminate the existing White Matter and can prevent new lesions please?

@suzysmith4254 8 ай бұрын

But why do the small lesions cause or are associated with migraines. Why do people get those lesions?

@LilySaintSin 6 ай бұрын

He mentioned ischemia. The blood circulation gets cut off temporarily during a migraine, which causes the lesions.

@shabanalakhair2984 2 жыл бұрын

Great effort but voice is very slow

@kevinclites7641 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like CADASIL…

@royaldramaticsthemix4104 Жыл бұрын

I have these same spots

@albacabral714 Жыл бұрын

Cadasil is a fancy name for SPIROCHAETES aka parasites

@kr-ql3fz 2 жыл бұрын

Sound is bad

@kprabapandi2816 Жыл бұрын

My son is white matter disease problem😂 please help me i am Tamilnadu please help me

@user-pl9yq3fc8u Жыл бұрын

Why did you put a laughing emoji

@afrin15 11 ай бұрын

I think they mistakenly thought that those tears meant crying. I’ve known some one who did this before.

@user-pl9yq3fc8u 11 ай бұрын

@@afrin15 yea but it's also smiling

@user-pl9yq3fc8u 11 ай бұрын

I'm so sorry for you

@skybabe2375 11 ай бұрын

Hi Kprabapadi, how is your son doing now, have you taken him to doctor, any medication/improvement? I'm having same problem with migraine headaches for 2yrs now nothing is working 😢