merylg
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I've become interested in this since over the last two weeks I had two nuclear medicine scans (Gastric & Colonic Motility), and a hospital admission involving a whole bunch of X-rays. I tried to refuse the X-rays as I did not think they were necessary ie I already had recent X-rays, CT lungs & MRI brain & upper spine. I did not win.
I now feel like I have radiation sickness. Crushing weakness on top of the usual fatigue I already had. Burning sensation lower colon. Oesophagitis, but that is nothing new, comes and goes. In hospital my veins shut down with the cold, as their air-con was set low (probably due to recent heat-wave here).
It was like a systemic Raynaud's attack, with maybe some dehydration as well.
They could not cannulate me & had difficulty collecting blood, as they were trying to use the back of my hands.
I did suffer an allergic reaction to Clexane injection.
Now that I am back home I do have this sense of radiation sickness. I found this interesting research that pins it down to genetic susceptibility.
http://www.hhmi.org/news/cheung20090406.html
Interesting that the same research techniques can be applied to sort out the genetics of chemical sensitivity...sigh...
I am going to cancel the HIDA scan...another nuclear med scan I was to have which my GP requested to check if I have "sludgy" gall bladder, as reason for my rising LFTs. I'm waiting on some more tests on my liver. Anti-LKM was one interesting test, the others seemed repeats of tests I have had before.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-LKM_antibody
Also i would like to link to the discussion of radiation sickness on this thread:
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/index.php?threads/human-babesiosis-in-australia.20197/#post-309082
I now feel like I have radiation sickness. Crushing weakness on top of the usual fatigue I already had. Burning sensation lower colon. Oesophagitis, but that is nothing new, comes and goes. In hospital my veins shut down with the cold, as their air-con was set low (probably due to recent heat-wave here).
It was like a systemic Raynaud's attack, with maybe some dehydration as well.
They could not cannulate me & had difficulty collecting blood, as they were trying to use the back of my hands.
I did suffer an allergic reaction to Clexane injection.
Now that I am back home I do have this sense of radiation sickness. I found this interesting research that pins it down to genetic susceptibility.
http://www.hhmi.org/news/cheung20090406.html
Interesting that the same research techniques can be applied to sort out the genetics of chemical sensitivity...sigh...
I am going to cancel the HIDA scan...another nuclear med scan I was to have which my GP requested to check if I have "sludgy" gall bladder, as reason for my rising LFTs. I'm waiting on some more tests on my liver. Anti-LKM was one interesting test, the others seemed repeats of tests I have had before.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-LKM_antibody
Also i would like to link to the discussion of radiation sickness on this thread:
http://forums.phoenixrising.me/index.php?threads/human-babesiosis-in-australia.20197/#post-309082
