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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / May 2008update
had my mr images done yesterday morning. that's got to be the narrowest mri tube i've ever been in! i don't know if it was an older model or a newer one, but it felt like it was made kidsize. needless to say the hard metal, sliding bed was a challenge because of having to be so still for so long. during the last 7 minutes, pain just got to me, i started sweating and getting nauseated. then, i started worrying if shaking would start, too, and mess up the images so that they'd have to be redone. lucky for me it was overwith before shaking started--didn't get to that shakey point, actually. whew! the sweet mri tech and nurse got a wheelchair and called a golf-cart type shuttle to take me to my car, without my asking them to. (that had me wondering/worrying if my mri showed something bad. i asked the tech if my mri's were that bad and he said no, the pictures turned out fine. whew! but i still can't figure out why they did that. maybe i just looked decrepit.<g>) i was sooo grateful for that, because all the handicapped parking spaces were taken that early in the morning. it was a bit of a challenge just getting to get to radiology with my cane. i have no idea when my doctor wants to talk to me about them, cuz she didn't suggest i make another appointment about them. but i can go back to radiology on tuesday and pick up a copy of the mri report. got my lab results today. i thought i was just having calcium and vit d test done. but she did sodium, potassium, chloride, co2, anion gap, calc osmoiality, glucose, bun, creatinine, bun/cre ration, calcium, vit d, 25-hydroxy, and parathyroid, intact. everything was normal ranges, except for my vit. d 25-hydroxy, which indicated insufficiency and for some reason my glucose levels were elevated, considered high on the test results (normal is mg.dl 65-99 and mine was 100), late afternoon, i'd eaten about an hour or two before. hope that's not high enough to require treatment. i don't want to have to deal with that, too. whine, whine, whine, whine, whine, whine. i'm trying to be good about taking the pain pills. boy, can i tell when i forget. i don't forget for long, that's for sure. anyway, that's about it for the owie saga update. kate {{{{{{{Kate}}}}}}} DeeTee > had my mr images done yesterday morning. that's got to be the narrowest > mri [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > > kate Kate, So glad to hear you are getting some relief from the pain AND some sleep as well. Sleep deprivation can be such a difficult thing to contend with physically and emotionally!!! You so deserve the relief! Glad also to hear that most of your blood work came back ok and that the people at the medical facility treated you well and got you back out to your car safe and sound and in one piece!!! Good for them!!! Praying that the results of the MRI won't be too bad and that you continue to heal and improve!!! Am so grateful that your pcp is really digging into things to find out what is causing all the problems and that she treated you so much better this time around!!! Blessings dear one! . . . . Donna . . . . 1.) ANGELS EXIST, but some times, since they don't all have wings, we call them FRIENDS...... 2.) J.K.M.A. Kate, So glad to hear you are getting some relief from the pain AND some sleep as well. Sleep deprivation can be such a difficult thing to contend with physically and emotionally!!! You so deserve the relief! Glad also to hear that most of your blood work came back ok and that the people at the medical facility treated you well and got you back out to your car safe and sound and in one piece!!! Good for them!!! Praying that the results of the MRI won't be too bad and that you continue to heal and improve!!! Am so grateful that your pcp is really digging into things to find out what is causing all the problems and that she treated you so much better this time around!!! Blessings dear one! you are soooo kind. thank you, hon. i thought it was amazing and felt like some kind of vip when the tech and nurse did that for me. way sweet. i'm glad my pcp is doing that digging and didn't make me feel uncomfortable, too--made it so much easier and more relaxed for me to see her. kate . . . . Donna . . . . 1.) ANGELS EXIST, but some times, since they don't all have wings, we call them FRIENDS...... 2.) J.K.M.A. {{{{{{{Kate}}}}}}} DeeTee thanks, sweetie. kate > had my mr images done yesterday morning. that's got to be the narrowest > mri [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > > kate Sorry that you had such a rough time of it. Don't worry about the glucose level. That is supposed to be a fasting test. You weren't fasting. 100 is perfectly normal for having eaten two hours before. The low Vit. D levels, on the other hand, will need to be dealt with. That is fairly common in us gimpy types. Fortunately, it is easily dealt with by taking a prescription supplement. Hang in there! Walt > had my mr images done yesterday morning. that's got to be the narrowest > mri [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > > kate Sorry that you had such a rough time of it. Don't worry about the glucose level. That is supposed to be a fasting test. You weren't fasting. 100 is perfectly normal for having eaten two hours before. The low Vit. D levels, on the other hand, will need to be dealt with. That is fairly common in us gimpy types. Fortunately, it is easily dealt with by taking a prescription supplement. Hang in there! Walt ohhh, thank you for that information, walt! i really was getting a bit nervous about the glucose level. that's such a relief! thankfully, my vit. d level didn't completely bottom out (still had 10 mg/mL to go before zero level<smile>), so it'll probably/hopefully just take another mega dose series of vit. d to get me back up there. at least i know/feel confident that my pcp will follow up on seeing if it worked, not like my rd who didn't. actually, i had been taking extra vit. d, all along on my own, but only 700mg more than in my multi-vitamin and all the milk i've been drinking each day. thanks again, guy. kate > had my mr images done yesterday morning. that's got to be the narrowest > mri [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > > kate kate, you have my admiration for getting through that mri. i can't handle the tube, no matter what the size. i hope the results are good. i think walt is right about your glucose levels. mine are occasionally high-ish if i've eaten. try to stay on top of your pain and i'll try to stay on top of mine. deal? diane kate, you have my admiration for getting through that mri. i can't handle the tube, no matter what the size. i hope the results are good. i think walt is right about your glucose levels. mine are occasionally high-ish if i've eaten. try to stay on top of your pain and i'll try to stay on top of mine. deal? diane i've been in a bunch of mri machines and that was the smallest one so far. small spaces don't really bother me. but the physical challenge was a bit hard. thanks for seconding what walt said about the glucose level. because, THAT bothered me.<smile> ok. deal! thanks again, sweetie. kate > had my mr images done yesterday morning. that's got to be the narrowest mri > tube i've ever been in! i don't know if it was an older model or a newer > one, but it felt like it was made kidsize. I always used to worry about that before I lost weight. I figured if I ever had to go in one of those all the way, I'd get stuck and they'd never get me out! I prefer the open MRI's myself. My cardiologist's office has one that is open, along with the nuclear machine that is also open. I get claustrophobic, so I'm glad they do! You should go to an imaging place that has an open MRI, Kate. They are a lot better. I also have a problem lying still for long periods of time, but the open one isn't as bad. > the sweet mri tech and nurse got a wheelchair and called a golf-cart type > shuttle to take me to my car, without my asking them to. Probably for insurance reasons. Take care and relax today, sounds like you deserve a nice, restful day :) Carole d'huit wrote: > had my mr images done yesterday morning. that's got to be the narrowest > mri > tube i've ever been in! i don't know if it was an older model or a newer > one, but it felt like it was made kidsize. I always used to worry about that before I lost weight. I figured if I ever had to go in one of those all the way, I'd get stuck and they'd never get me out! I prefer the open MRI's myself. My cardiologist's office has one that is open, along with the nuclear machine that is also open. I get claustrophobic, so I'm glad they do! You should go to an imaging place that has an open MRI, Kate. They are a lot better. I also have a problem lying still for long periods of time, but the open one isn't as bad. ***i've been in the open ones before and they are nice. the machine i didn't like was huge--bed for it was the size of a california king, open all the way around. but what bothered me was that the huge part of the machine that was suspended above me almost touching my nose--i kept thinking an earthquake would make a red smear out of me. i'm not usually claustrophobic, but that one was a little scary to me. > the sweet mri tech and nurse got a wheelchair and called a golf-cart type > shuttle to take me to my car, without my asking them to. Probably for insurance reasons. Take care and relax today, sounds like you deserve a nice, restful day :) ***hmmm . . . maybe that's something new, then. i've had lots of xrays and mr images at that same place and it never happened to me before. well, except when i broke my leg, but dr. mary arranged all of that (to get me from her office and back again). my neice cleaned out my hot tub for me friday and alex filled it for me last night. i made it gimp friendlier soon after i got it, to prevent falls (because i did fall into it a couple of times), by installing a railing on it that swings over the steps and locks and then swings over the tub and locks, with a push of a button. i'm so hoping i can use it, once it gets up to temp and i get the chemical balance right. maybe tonight, if i'm lucky. i haven't used it since i broke my wrist (the rail side wrist for getting into it, naturally. getting out of it wouldn't have been a problem.). thanks, hon. kate Carole > ***i've been in the open ones before and they are nice. the machine i > didn't like was huge--bed for it was the size of a california king, open all > the way around. but what bothered me was that the huge part of the machine > that was suspended above me almost touching my nose--i kept thinking an > earthquake would make a red smear out of me. i'm not usually > claustrophobic, but that one was a little scary to me. Yea, the nuclear machine at the cardiologist's is like that. But I figure if there was an earthquake, the whole building would fall on me anyway :)) > my neice cleaned out my hot tub for me friday and alex filled it for me last > night. Hot tubs are great. We have one here at the apartment complex. I'm going to head over to the pool later and do a few laps and then soak in the hot tub :))) Carole My mom would love to have a hot tub, but she says she can't get into any of the designs she has seen. BTW she just got a "stand-you-up" and/or "sit-you-down" chair and I think she has finally gotten the button straight! LOL She kept thinking of putting her feet "down" and "up" rather than the other way around.  SignatureNavy Take out the FISH to email me. > >> ***i've been in the open ones before and they are nice. the machine i [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Carole > My mom would love to have a hot tub, but she says she can't get into any of > the designs she has seen. BTW she just got a "stand-you-up" and/or > "sit-you-down" chair and I think she has finally gotten the button straight! > LOL She kept thinking of putting her feet "down" and "up" rather than the > other way around. when my mom's house was being rebuilt after Florida's recent 4-hurricane year, she was staying in a nearby furnished house that had one of these chairs. (the house belonged to a fairly recently deceased neighbor whose son & DIL we've known since childhood and they were happy to rent it to her - she had to talk them into taking a fair rate from the insurance company!) Everyone fell in love with that chair. Well, everyone but me - I never got much of a chance to sit in it! LOL The DIL realized how nice the chair was during all the visiting while mother was there and they gave it to her father after Mother returned home. SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Change everything. Love & forgive.
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