I have had recent memory problems, for which my MD scheduled an MRI of the brain...results in the report impression is moderate subcortical white matter changes bilaterally and confluent left parietooccipital-occipital region. This may be seen in patients with microvascular ischemic change, migraine headache vasculitis or post infection....so, since I don t get migraines or headaches of any sort usually, am I to believe the vascular issues might be mini-stroke related? Other than the memory issues...where I sometimes don t know that a topic has been discussed prior, or that I ve been addressed, the only other indicator might be impacted vision (or just might be age related vision loss)...BP normal, cholesterol a bit high, but on low dose of Crestor, CRP .22 (down from 3.4 a year ago), what else can be done to minimize the damage or reverse it? At least prevent further damage?
Hello, Thank you for trusting Chat Doctor. AS you mentioned most probable cause of those changes on the MRI is the microvascular ischemic changes, one option of preventing further deterioration is aspirin 80 mg one pill per day, it is proven to be protective for different health issues for aging individuals, please check with your treating doctor the possibility of taking that, plus if you have any health issues which might contraindicate using it. Hope that helped.