Response: If your child had an MRI, what did it show?

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My son had an MRI this past January. He now almost three years old. We chose

to do the MRI to rule out any damage that would have caused the apraxia

symptoms. In other words, if there were damage, we could have spent oodles of

money trying to fix something that may not have been fixable?? My first

inclination was NOT to do any diagnostics. My question to the neurologist

was... if we do the MRI/other diagnostics, how will this change his course of

treatment? Most of the time the answer was, " it won't. " But... since his first

neurologist diagnosed him with " hypotonic cerebral palsy " after only observing

him (no diagnostics), we felt that we needed to have the tests to rule things

out. We now use a different neurologist! My little guy has had a MRI, brain

spectometry, chromosomal tests, a microarray and several other labs that Dr.

recommended. We found some minor issues (low Vit. D, etc) We found

nothing to suggest the cause of the apraxia symptoms. So -- course of treatment

has not changed, but we feel relieved.

Hope this helps. Do what your gut instinct tells you to do/or not!

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> We just got the MRI done - showed nothing - chromozone study - showed

> nothing - EEG - showed a wave in the left and right temporal region - but

> nothing to give DX of apraxia - we got these tests done with a pediatric

> neurologist.... he would only say developmental - needs extreme speech

> therapy - would not say apraxia, although I am pretty sure that is what

> she has - we are seeing remarkable results with the fish oil and continuously

> going over videos (baby bumblebee, my baby can read) - anything that

> enforces repeated language - I also have purchased items from super

> duper publications and I do lots of oral motor activities - I'm at the point

> that I don't care honestly if she gets the " apraxia " DX as long as she gets

> the therapy she needs and deserves... we as parents are their greatest

> advocates/teachers...

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> good luck

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> I just went to an acupuncturist today and she said the first step in

treatment is to get an MRI. Our son's doctor also suggested a neurologist. For

those of you that have had them done, I was wondering two things:

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> 1. What did the MRI show?

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> We are on a tight budget and I don't want to get an MRI, " just to know " . If

we end up doing this, I want to know if there would be any change in course

because of it or are we basically at square one again. I can't afford expensive

treatments like neurofeedback, so is there any sense in getting an MRI?

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