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Eek. 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.