Medical imaging question

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Originally Posted by 1976_michelle

For the record I am not a hypochondriac, I carry an amount of pain aroundnwith me all the time due to the work types I get involved in, many things can be worked around. This crap knocked me for six though, cost me a role I enjoyed, sent me backwards in my physical activity regime which in turn resulted in an amount of depression (disco was retail therapy as having a ladies size 11 foot means shoe shopping retail therapy is difficult lol)

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Michelle, I speak from my own personal experience and have been to rehabiltion and learnt a lot about this subject, but I am not an expert by all means.

Sounds to me you could??? have chronic pain. Acute pain is something that's there at time of injury and usually is gone after repairs, surgery or rest.

The chronic pain stage is when there is no physical pathology there, but the pain remains. but WHY?
The receptors to the brain are there to alert the body that something is wrong, it uses the sensation of pain, to alert you to stop what ever it is that is the causing it.
The body has many nerve receptors that connect at intersections and all lead to the brain.

With Chronic pain, the physical pathology presents itself that the wound/injury although it has been repaired, the nerve receptors have become faulty, and continue to send messages to the brain that the injury is still there. ( This is where the it's all in your head part comes in, as in fact it really is)
So your brain is still processing information that there is a problem as the faulty receptors are saying to it, Pain Pain. But these receptors can't be switched off!

So you fell the sensation of pain. Others around you look at you and can't see anything wrong with you, there's no blood pouring out or limbs dislocated, you look physically normal to them, ah you must be putting it on.

CHRONIC PAIN There is no cure for it. The best that can happen is management of the pain, medications help take the sting off it. Changing your life style to remove what ever aggravates the level of pain. Pacing, and evenutally levelling it out so you don't have high points and low points, education to manage the pain on a level so that doesn't peak and quality of your life improves.

Depression is the evil side effect of chronic pain. SEEK HELP! DON'T TAKE THE VIEW SHE'LL BE RIGHT!, THAT'S THE WRONG APPROACH!!!

Methods of treatment for chronic pain vary from exercise and physio, medication, hydrotherapy ansd education. Even things like a stint in hospital and being put on a drip of ketamine an aneasthetic, which hopefully remove the pain signals and rebalances the system.
Magnesian infusions and needle blocks.
All these things can give tempary relieve and every one is different and rseponds differently.
Help from head shrinks to help the depression side. Don't be afraid to ASK your GP to refer you to HELP!

You'll find if you ask and seek help the improvement in quality of life improves and day to day activities, although not normal like before, can be tackled better or differently.
Cheers, Mario

the biggest issue has been worrying about pushing through it and causing additional damage but if its just my head reading left over signals from the initial problem I can adapt to that and push through it. Ive set conditions at my work avoiding some of the tasks I am qualified (and paid) to do in favour of lesser rated tasks that dont aggravate it as much (eg Im a machine operator but get out of it most times subject to other trained staff availability because some of the actions required are frequent throughout a shift and cause more aggravation to the area). (though those lesser tasks are still physical ones they dont invovle squatting under machines, or repetitious twisting at pace), I can control the way I move and protect myself
thanks for your posts

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Originally Posted by 1976_michelle

the biggest issue has been worrying about pushing through it and causing additional damage but if its just my head reading left over signals from the initial problem I can adapt to that and push through it. Ive set conditions at my work avoiding some of the tasks I am qualified (and paid) to do in favour of lesser rated tasks that dont aggravate it as much (eg Im a machine operator but get out of it most times subject to other trained staff availability because some of the actions required are frequent throughout a shift and cause more aggravation to the area). (though those lesser tasks are still physical ones they dont invovle squatting under machines, or repetitious twisting at pace), I can control the way I move and protect myself
thanks for your posts

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Michelle, as I said I'm no expert and just relating to my experience.
Get your self checked by medical staff and testing.
Good luck with it,
Cheers, Mario

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Originally Posted by sheerluck

May be worth spending a bit to confirm one way or the other?

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I totally agree with that :)

A bit different in my case, but I suffered a really bad bout of vertigo for months. There was no obvious cause (and it stopped eventually) but they put me in for scans to make sure there wasn't anything wrong ... the money was well spent just to know what was/wasn't going on where I couldn't see :cool: in my case, knowing my brain was a-ok was such a relief, but I guess that applies with any injury :)

It's best to be sure!

I'm only going on limited knowledge from being a medical typist, but it will show the ligaments, etc to much better detail. An ultrasound or CT may show evidence of a tear (ie in the anterior cruciate ligament for example), but often times an MRI is than suggested to give further detail as to if it is a tear, extent of tear, etc.

Regards,
Mrs RobboTD5

Just to clarify.

X-ray (including CT) images using very high frequency electromagntic radiation. Good for imaging materials that differ greatly in density, for rxample, bone vs tissue, not much good for imaging different types of tissue. CT gives three dimensional image that can be sliced all ways.

Ultrasound images using high frequency compressional sound waves. Cheap, but resolution is not all that good, and like x-rays depends largely on differences in density, but also on elasticity, so better at imaging tissue than x-rays. An advantage is that it can show images in real time and the sensors can be moved to get the best image.

MRI, or magnetic resonance imaging, images using the properties of the atoms making up the object, in practice imaging the proportion of hydrogen, hence water, in the tissue. This makes it the optimum for imaging tissue differences. Resolution is also better than the other two, but at this stage there is possibly less expertise available to interpret the image.

John

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Originally Posted by 1976_michelle

was hectic, fast paced, bit of stress, lot of challenge and time management, everything I love (if it doesnt stress me at least a little it aint fun).

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Well that explains the Disco, (except for the fast paced) :angel: :angel:

Michelle,
I think it'll be a good idea to get things checked properly, cheers

An example of the difference between PET Scan and MRI

http://www.aimmedicalimaging.com/wp-...comparison.jpg

MRIs are expensive so A GP normally doesn't suggest them, but specialists do. Other wise GPs would recommend them for everything. Thats what my GP told me.
Also MRI machines are are few and far between, and generally there's a wait to book, unless your prepared to travel.

MRIs are expensive so A GP normally doesn't suggest them, but specialists do. Other wise GPs would recommend them for everything. Thats what my GP told me.
Also MRI machines are are few and far between, and generally there's a wait to book, unless your prepared to travel.