Hi, I may be way off on this but I was wondering if anyone knows if lesions on brain,neck shown on mri are typical of neuropathy? I was admitted into the hospital on Jan 1st and drs said that I had lesions which were typical of multiple sclerosis, but I was also told that I may have neuropathy a week before by an er dr. Does anyone know if lesions are present with neuropathy? Thank you for any ideas,opinions.
Deb

Hi Deb, the word neuropathy simply means nerve [neuro] / damage [pathy], which can have many causes like diabetes, toxins, excessive alcohol consumption, drugs etc , which actually causes damage to the nerves themselves, with the large nerves there is a mylen sheath that wraps around the nerve or in the centre of the nerve the axon can be affected or both can be damaged which they can not send the normal signals to the brain, so lessions have nothing to do with this process at all, the only time a lession can have anything to do with peripheral neuroapthy is if a lesion grows on the spinal cord and inhibits the proper functioning of any nerve root coming out of the spine this can cause nerve irritation which can affect the limbs similar to the other causes i mentioned before, normally cervical spine affects the the upper extremities & lower spine affects the legs, but its not impossible for cervical issuses to affect the legs, just to confuse us more :)
I hope i have explained it properly.

Aussie :)