just been for my MRI… it took 7 minutes to do all 3 different ones… tell me, is this usual? Ive had an MRI on my shoulder befor and I had 2 scans taking over an hour in total! It seemed to be a brand new machine compared to the one I had my shoulder done in, but still, should I be worried?
How wonderful! Maybe they’re a bit like personal computers - the one you buy today does the same job orders of magnitude faster than the one you bought ten years ago because they are just so much more powerful. MRIs are so clever that it is all pretty much witchcraft, as far as I’m concerned, but super-fast witchcraft is better!
Alison
Wow that was quick, The future is bright the future is 7 minutesI
suppose you could look at it this way! Whatever they were looking for they must have found cause they stopped looking!!
Stop yourself and think …Don’t worry about the things you cannot change.worrying makes matters all that much worst. Worry is a leech sucking every drop of blood, once it has a grip its hard to rip off, What are you going to achieve by worrying.These are what I say to myself.
when does your consultant expect to get the results ?
Paulinexx
around 2 weeks i think. It was a brand spanking new machine so maybe that was why.
The wait is not to bad then, I know any waiting its too long to get an answer,
But like the new MRI you had it sounds all that much quicker.
Mine was only in December it was the 45 minute long machine and took a month to get results,
Take care and try not to worry it will only exacberate symptoms.
Pauline xx
I guess Im lucky, I went to Walton Neuro, the one that was on the telly, and its a national centre of excellence. Just can’t help feeling they did the wrong scan, or the neuro was trying to prove he was right rather than looking for all the facts.
He says I have migraine caused by drinking too much tea- I dont drink coke and I only have 4 cups of tea a day.
A migraine doesnt explain my hands and feet going numb 9 months back, the constant fatigue, the sensation of water dripping on my feet/ water running down my right shin, sensation of acid running down my scalp, the dizziness all the time, my falls, my innability to find the right words sometimes, how my arms go numb if I lightly rest them on the arms of a chair, my tight calf muscles, the getting up to pee a few times through the night and the short notice I get to go for a pee in the evenings. But he didnt even listen to my symptoms, and certainly didnt write them down.
I know Im not giving him a chance, I know im being negative but it p***es me off that doing the right tests and taking me seriously would save me so much distress and damage to my health. It has happened to me with every consultant apart from one occasion when they did believe me when I had an ectopic pregnancy. All the other times, broken ankle sent home without treatment, no treatment at all for diagnosis of fibro, severe tachycardia caused by a prescrition diagnosed as anxiety, my newborn son’s broken collar bone undiagnosed for 2 days despite me begging them to help him, and it goes on. Maybe I need to write a letter to my GP pointing out my experiences and why I appear so insistent for tests, but Ive only ever been proved right in the long run.
Sorry for sounding like a broken record, I know I have harped on about all this before.
It sounds as though part of you suspects that the consultant’s referral to the MRI radiographer went something like, ‘Put this lady in the scanner for a few minutes and pretend to be doing an MRI scan.’
Deadchick, you KNOW in your heart that this is not what happened! It is hard to keep an open mind, and give people the benefit of the doubt, when there is a history of people not seeming to take you seriously, but please try to believe that these people are trying to find out what is the matter and get you well. I really hope that they can give you grounds for confidence that they are on your side.
Alison
p.s. I spent a couple of wretched weeks hobbling around on a broken leg, failing to persuade anyone to X-ray it, so I do know a little bit about how bad that feels and I really sympathise.
well, it’s not me going mad or being negative/ paranoid/ yet again blaming myself for the way doctors treat me! I spoke to a close friend of mine who does have MS and she goes to the same hospital. Her scan takes 45 miunutes in the same machine.
It does sound a very short time for a scan. It has happened now so short of ringing up and asking if this is standard practice, but the wrong reply could worry you all the more. So it might be best to wait (albeit worrying) and see what the report says. If it is conclusive and lesions were clearly seen, then that might explain the shortness of the scan. If however, the report is inconclusive, perhaps mention the time then. It is so hard when you feel (know) that you have not been taken seriously. I have been dismissed in the past and I have felt absolutely worthless as a result. Try and be positive, each day is a day closer to your follow up. Lou x
Sorry to hear that deadchick07 - what have you decided you are going to do?
no idea, i have already contacted pals about this doctor for testing my plantar relex whilst i was wearing socks and using the wrong tool so clearly got the negative result he wanted to get. Funny, because when my partner tested them he got a positive result in my left foot.
I know im coming across like a complete obsessive, but I am sick to death of my life, there is no quality, I go to work, I go to bed, thats it , no joy. And if I continue to be fobbed off and offered no treatments for whatever problem I ask for help with then why on earth am I bothering at all? I havent been able to play properly with my kids for the last 4 years because of severe fatigue, all I do is earn the money to feed them. I can only work part time which is the best I can do but if there was something out there I could access to help with the fatigue I’d give you my left eyeball as a swap! Im bored of my own moaning but Im banging my head against a wall over and over again and no professional is listening.
I dont need therapy, I need to be valued as a human being who is suffering unnecessarily because of other people’s egos.
Wow. I’ve not had my MRI yet but was til to expect it to last 45 min to do my head and neck. It took about 5-10mim for the CT scan. Which areas were scanned??
just my head, but how much of it i dont know.
Hi deadchick - reading you latest post reminds me of me and my frustrations with this. I feel like I have been pushed from pillar to post at times, and certainly have not been listened to, but even more frustrating (like you) is that I have (potentially) a good life, and I love my job (and I am quite good at it too if I do say so myself) but most of the time I have to battle through the day because of these darn symptoms and more than anything- the fatigue! I don’t have any particular advice for you, because I am still finding my way through my own battle, but just wanted to say that I do understand how you feel, and I think you are right to feel frustrated. I had a huge conversation with my husband this evening about it all, and what he has made me realise is that actually even if they do diagnose me with something it may not change anything for me, and also it may take quite a while to happen, so we have been thinking about ways we can make things easier - just simple things. And actually there are things we can do. Anyway, hope you are ok, keep us up to date, Leah x