Welcome to my health blog. I am a 29 year old living with a range of strange and confusing medical symptoms and conditions including various functional/neurological disorders, Endometriosis, PCOS, Raynaud's Disease and seronegative Hughes Syndrome. This blog is to document my struggle with doctors and the impact these illnesses have on my life. I hope that in some small way, my experiences will give others who are in similar situations some sort of strength or some form of comfort. Thanks for visiting!

Some may question my choice of title but if you are ill constantly and seem to always have your brain on pain and discomfort that's making your life very difficult, you begin to feel that perhaps you are a hypochondriac or what's worse, that other people see you as one. Whether you are or not, you still feel pain, sadness, and dispair which brings me to this quote from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling:

"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" - Albus Dumbledore

Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Blood, MRI & CT

Today I had the blood tests, of which there were many! Following on from those I went for the MRI (no contrast) and the CT (warm contrast). I'm a little confused though as I'm sure I was told it wouldn't be the warm contrast and the CT would come first, then I could eat and have the MRI afterwards. Oh well, maybe it's just there are so many things going on something got muddled.

After both the scans were done the blood taking nurse came back as she had been called from the lab and asked to take 4 vials more. Hopefully they won't be the fasting tests as I had a sugary drink and a hot chocolate after the first lot of blood tests as I thought I wouldn't be having any more. Just have to wait and see what comes of this.
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)