Pancreatitis

They're nothin... It's just an X-Ray where you lay down on a bed and slide in and out of a donut-thingy. I've been getting about 3 or 4 per year done for the past 4 years.

Totally different from an MRI...

 

Yesca and Ace are right.

Nothing to it. You'll not anything for 4-6 hours prior. You'll drink some stuff- sometimes chalky, sometimes koolaid (depending who does it). They'll have you undress and put on an indain head dress (ok not really)
You'll lay on a flat bed and have a small iv started-really small -won't hurt.
They'll take one big picture, then they'll have you hold your breath for about 20-30 seconds, put the iv stuff in and the bed will slowly move out.
They'll tell you to breath, they'll check the scan, you'll be ready to go.
The contrast might make you feel a little warm and some people say it makes you feel like you need to pee. Some people feel nothing.

This is exactly the test they should do for your symptoms.

 

dammit. now they're going to get all big headed <---not in a good way

aw cool. ivs i can handle, chalky drinks i can handle, donuts that make my balls warm i can handle.

took my dr a week and half to tell me my blood work and x-ray came back negative. i asked "what now?" and the nurse was like 'what do you mean what now?'. i guess my dr was just going to set me back out on the skreet. so she called today and wants to do a CT scan.

i've heard of 2 other people with the exact same symptoms i'm having and their doctors don't know either. they've been feeling bad since around the beginning of the year.

 

That Barium shit is nasty!!!!! (That's the chalky stuff) I almost vomited a couple times drinking it. Then they had to go and try and flavor it with Orange Creamsicle. Now I can't eat anything that's Orange Creamsicle flavored without getting sick to my stomach.

 

Beware of those radiology chicks. You know what they say about them. :minigoats

 

I'm hoping this was/is a weird virus that was going around. Now I have to have a CT today.
My symptoms are more like a kidney stone and I do have blood in my urine, but a Rad I used to work with did a non contrast CT on my abdomen last week and he thought it to be relatively negative. It was done under the radar so the report is a little bogus and I can't really share it with my primary doc. They did see a 'cystic lesion' in my ovary...probably just an ovarian cyst, and a stone in my appendix, but those are pretty common.

Anyway, my symptoms started right after Muff got better....Thank you, for that, Uncle.

And YOU, you can bite it mister.

 

blood in your urine?

HG's sources kept insisting that all i needed was to drink stout. never got the full skinny on why, but she swore by it. sounded better than fro's fleet recommendation.

beer flavored oral laxative

 

I sent you a PM the other day, but when I checked back in my `Sent Items' it wasn't there . I was thinking about you though and wondered how you'd got on. Good luck with the `official scan' lovey. I am sending out an all points bulletin to the folks upstairs, around us and the llamas that you'll be okay . Let me know chica!

As for you Miss Muffy! How are you feeling? Yes, the stout is good for the tummy - it's an age old remedy and I think it's because the darkness of the ale moves through the gut and with the carbonisation, collects bits along the way and sends it down. Yea, that'll do . I know it helped me when I had that septic `abdominal mass' (I love saying that - reminds me of that Abominable Snowman chappie - which, in turn leads me to this - .

 

You couldn't handle it if I did.

It's the fuckin' bizomb

Hi Honey

 

Man teat indeed!

Hi Yesca - .