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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008 12:33 amEek. I was wondering if a CT scan might be cheaper than another HSG, for making sure my Essure coils are still in place. But having a few CT scans, depending on the type, can expose you to as much radiation as what the Japanese atomic bomb survivors experienced (which begs the question, how much radiation did the non-survivors experience?)
So I wouldn't want to get a CT scan done without a very good reason for it. I wonder if what I had done in the 4th grade was a CT scan or MRI. My head was scanned... I think it was done in preparation for my eye-surgery which was done to correct cross-sightedness, but they also happened to discover one of my sinuses was full of fluid, from the images. I've still got the x-ray (?) photos some place... need to find them. Is there a way of telling from the photos whether they were MRI or CT?
For future reference, MAUDE database:
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfMAUDE/search.CFM
Can look up reported problems with Essure via manufacturer = Conceptus.
Edit (2008/09/07): It was a CT scan I had done, in 1983.
So I wouldn't want to get a CT scan done without a very good reason for it. I wonder if what I had done in the 4th grade was a CT scan or MRI. My head was scanned... I think it was done in preparation for my eye-surgery which was done to correct cross-sightedness, but they also happened to discover one of my sinuses was full of fluid, from the images. I've still got the x-ray (?) photos some place... need to find them. Is there a way of telling from the photos whether they were MRI or CT?
For future reference, MAUDE database:
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfMAUDE/search.CFM
Can look up reported problems with Essure via manufacturer = Conceptus.
Edit (2008/09/07): It was a CT scan I had done, in 1983.
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008 12:57 amInteresting; a journal with images made from menstrual blood:
http://spiralingmoon.livejournal.com/
Why is it that the thought of using menstrual blood for painting seems icky, whereas using blood from a cut doesn't so much? Is it because menstrual blood is old, used, a waste product discarded by the body, whereas blood from a cut is "fresh"? Or because of which bodily region it comes out of? Or is it due to the association of menstruation with "uncleanness"?
Menstrual Cups LJ community:
http://community.livejournal.com/menstrual_cups/
Found a link there to the website for "Instead", which I hadn't heard of before. Looks even harder to insert and remove than the diva/lunacup/keeper... I need to give mine a try again. Never was able to get it in, but I only tried it a few times.
http://spiralingmoon.livejournal.com/
Why is it that the thought of using menstrual blood for painting seems icky, whereas using blood from a cut doesn't so much? Is it because menstrual blood is old, used, a waste product discarded by the body, whereas blood from a cut is "fresh"? Or because of which bodily region it comes out of? Or is it due to the association of menstruation with "uncleanness"?
Menstrual Cups LJ community:
http://community.livejournal.com/menstrual_cups/
Found a link there to the website for "Instead", which I hadn't heard of before. Looks even harder to insert and remove than the diva/lunacup/keeper... I need to give mine a try again. Never was able to get it in, but I only tried it a few times.