??? This is like a mystery tour isn’t it? I’ve just had a phone call out of the blue for an appointment for a bone density scan. Anyone know why? Does it hurt?
Am just about to start chemo, so presumably it’s to do with that?
Are any more mystery appointments likely to drop out of the sky?
xx
Hi Cryst
I had a bone scan just before I started TAC chemo, it doesn’t hurt, it’s just like a couple of large square plates that you go between very, very, very slowly. It might be a bit claustrophobic at first when they bring the plate down to your face but you just lie very still and let the machine get on with it. You might have to have a CT scan, are you having chemo before or after surgery? I am having it before, had my first chemo last Tuesday and my CT scan last evening. That’s just a spinning doughnut that you go through very quick indeed. I’m not sure if there is anything else they are going to throw at me!
Good luck with everything
Nonny
Hi Cryst,
I had a bone scan and a bone density scan. The latter was not at all claustrophobic and just involved a scan of the legs. I had the bone scan before chemo and the density one before starting on tablets (Letrozole). Both are painless though as Nonny says with the bone scan you have to keep still for the scan of the whole of the body.
Margaret x
Hi Cryst,
A bone density scan checks if you have osteoporosis and is usually done before they put you on arimidex or similar. It is completely painless, just an x-ray of the legs.
A bone scan is carried out to check for secondaries.
Good luck
Thanks everyone. That was OK! I got there early and they did me straight away - now how often does that happen? It was half an hour or so of lying still in different positions. My sort of procedure!