Hi all…I m back on here after a while of “just getting on with it”… I now find myself in the position of aches and pains, hospital visits, bone scans (tomorrow) and stuck in limbo… I am having a whole body bone scan tomorrow at my local hospitals nuclear medicine dept…Feeling a little overwhelmed and know I am in the realm where time moves slower than normal whilst waiting for results… Can anyone let me know what to expect tomorrow…I know it will be a 4 hour appointment as they are injecting me with Radioactivity and then the 45 minute scan… Who can shed light on the scan itself??? Will it be the claustrophobic capsule or am I worrying over nothing x x any help would be appreciated
Hi. I don’t often post but I read the threads every day. I recently - well 6 months ago - had a whole body bone scan. It consisted of an injection, then being told to come back in 3 hours. - they told me to have plenty of fluids in the meantime. When I went back for the scan it was not a claustrophobic capsule and a doddle compared to the MRI which I hated…all the best!!
So sorry you are back in the ‘waiting room’. I had a bone scan three years ago when I was first diagnosed, it was exactly as Lynn describes. Although it is not a tube, the scanning plate passes very close to your body and I was glad I’d been warned about this - I just closed my eyes as it went slowly over my face! When I had mine they needed to do a second pass at an oblique angle - this left me very anxious as I thought they must have seen something that needed extra scans, but actually was just what had been planned. Mine was clear, but I was told that a lot of people will have ‘hot spots’ due to old injuries or arthritis, and it it needs expert interpretation to discern which is what.
Hope it goes well for you and that there is a non-nasty result.