Good information but I think it's important to remember that all drugs in western medicine come with a risk, to say that it is associated with lesions could really scare people, not sure if you mean used for lesions or associated with lesion formation by your title.

Kidney problems are no fun, and that's the key issue with gadolinium along with it depositing in tissues.

An association is the same thing as a correlation. For people who are worried about heavy metal buildup, aluminum is probably more of a concern than gadolinium in terms of exposure. The FDA will handle it.

Correlation does not equal causation! As soon as people know for sure, things will change because medical knowledge is always evolving as time goes by.

There seem to be studies available on Google Scholar if anyone would like to dry to decipher some of this.
http://pubs.rsna.org/doi/abs/10.1148/radiol.2015150805

I'm not going to look these over today... I have resisted having a lot of MRI testing though. I had one this year but that was the first in a number of years. And as I suspected, no apparent change.

Thank you both for sharing on DS.

This makes me truly wonder about MRI's! I can not begin to count have many MRI's I have had in my history with MS! I have had MS for over 20 years. I too, had to retire and go on SSDI because I couldn't think clearly, or make timely judgement calls.

Wish they had known earlier!

Thank you for sharing. I just had an MRI 1 week ago with contrast. I asked the MRI Tech if there was any concern with using contrast. He assured me there were no concerns. When I see my Neurologist in a bit, I definitely ask him about the contrast.

This makes me glad that I have refused the mri's, to my doctors disapproval. But I figure what will they do for me if they find anything? and if it is clean I wasted my grocery money for the month for the copays. Thanks for this info.

Thank you for information. Much appreciated as we all try to maintain and improve our health.

I want to give you the link to the explosive study that will be out next month.

"T1 hyperintensity in the DN was previously described in the progressive subtype of multiple sclerosis and was associated with the increased clinical disability, lesion load, and brain atrophy. Similar findings were also reported with brain irradiation. From the perspective of our current understanding, none of these studies considered the number of contrast-enhanced MR imaging studies performed in the their analyses, raising the question of whether these findings reflect gadolinium deposition rather than a primary disease manifestation, as demonstrated recently by Adin et al in a study with 184 subjects who were treated with brain irradiation."

http://www.ajnr.org/content/early/2015/12/10/ajnr.A4615

If you are still enamoured with your neurologist take this information to him/her and ask them if they want to be sued because that is what is going to happen. This is serious.