Friday's CAT scan
Nov. 26th, 2004 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mattp(Previous chapters at http://www.livejournal.com/users/matthewp/157130.html)
The scan was pretty uneventful, but I'll detail what happened here forcompleteness. I went in around 2pm.
I don't have the results yet, but that's understandable as there have only been 3 days since it happened. THe suprising thing is that it was a mid-section scan rather than of my leg. I've yet to find out why this is, and annoyingly the radiographer wasn't particularly talkative when I asked him.
The procedure itself only took 20 minutes, plus preparation time for a cannula/
During the scan I was injected with 100ml of an iodine solution (in the aforementioned cannula). It had a couple of unusual side-effects: the first wasthat it made me feel warm and the second it felt as though I was passing water. I'd been forewarned about this so it wasn't a complete surprise but was still a bit disconcerting.
30 minutes later I'd been released and was home.
The scan was pretty uneventful, but I'll detail what happened here forcompleteness. I went in around 2pm.
I don't have the results yet, but that's understandable as there have only been 3 days since it happened. THe suprising thing is that it was a mid-section scan rather than of my leg. I've yet to find out why this is, and annoyingly the radiographer wasn't particularly talkative when I asked him.
The procedure itself only took 20 minutes, plus preparation time for a cannula/
During the scan I was injected with 100ml of an iodine solution (in the aforementioned cannula). It had a couple of unusual side-effects: the first wasthat it made me feel warm and the second it felt as though I was passing water. I'd been forewarned about this so it wasn't a complete surprise but was still a bit disconcerting.
30 minutes later I'd been released and was home.
