2007-02-06 02:05:33 · 7 answers · asked by ALAN B 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
you will be put on a bed like a conveyor belt which will move forward a small distance between each scan which is taken it is like going through a giant white hoop
totally painless you will be asked to hold your breath when the pictures are being taken last about 20 to 30 mins
now had six myself nothing to fear wish you the best of luck chin up
they don't always give you a injection of dye only had one out of six with dye & I was given a mask
2007-02-06 02:33:19 · answer #1 · answered by miss smidgey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The CT scan is very likely to check that the cancer has not spread elsewhere. If it has done, it can get into the bones, where it's often slow growing (may not be noticeable for a number of years). Hopefully your doctors will have made an early diagnosis, such that with minor surgery and/or drug treatment, you will be cured.
I wish you the very best for the future.
2007-02-06 02:15:02 · answer #2 · answered by grpr1964 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will probably have to go through a machine a bit like a giant polo mint. you lie on a platform outside of the "polo mint" and it gradually goes "into the mint". It is quite claustrophobic for the space around your head and body is very limited. the scan takes about 20 minutes. I believe that if you are subject to claustrophobia you can have an injection to help you
2007-02-06 02:12:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you get put on a bed and you go into a machine which scans your insides totally painless but a little chlostrophobic.
check out this link below to the nhs website it tells all about the ct scan and exactly whats involved!!
hope this helps x
2007-02-06 02:12:01 · answer #4 · answered by PInky without perky!! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The polo mint euphamism is correct. The trip through from head to toe takes 30 seconds, but often it is shortened to focus on certain areas. You will go through, then be injected with contrast dye, a certain time period will elapse and you will go through again, which allows the radiologist the chance to better assess anything that is not normal.
2007-02-06 08:57:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please, please, please ask your health care professional as many questions as you can possibly think of.
CAT scan is painless. However, you should know that you will be given a liquid that contains radioactive particles that will be read on the scan. Radioactivity does not go away or disappear. You will always carry these with you. The amount of radiation you receive during the scan equals about three years of radiation received in daily living.
Also when a biopsy is performed, it disturbs the cancer cells and can send them throughout your body beginning new tumors. DO your research before you let anyone cut on you. God be with you.
2007-02-06 02:22:44 · answer #6 · answered by Rox 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
So sorry..but the scan is painless. They inject a dye in you and put you in a kind of tunnel machine to take the x-ray.
2007-02-06 02:23:44 · answer #7 · answered by Afi 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋