Day after scan day 18 June 2020
Am used to having to do a lot of peeing after scans - a litre of liquid in 25 minutes followed by instructions to drink more than normal in order to wash out the oral and intravenous contrast media.
But after the scan before last at the end of January, done at a hospital in Westmorland Street, the world also fell out of my bottom. Luckily, I had paid attention to an unexpected unsettled feeling and returned to the hospital soon after setting off for home. I spent a couple of hours there getting well acquainted with the loos before feeling safe to venture out again, and still took the precautionary measure of popping into the John Lewis mother ship, buying a quilt and checking out their refurbished comfort suites on the way home.
At the April scan, which was back at the UCLH Cancer Centre, I had asked about this unwanted effect and whether it was now likely to happen every time but not much information was forthcoming. And in the event, not much happened - a slight unsettled feeling as I had had with previous scans but nothing to worry about.
I asked again before the Cancer Centre scan yesterday and the radiographer who set me up said it was a rare after effect and showed me where the loo was. Anyway, luckily again, Chris got me home in time as this rare after effect happened again.
What to do? So far I have sent an email to the Imaging Department inquiring if different formulations / suppliers provide the contrast medium in an attempt to bypass this particular indignity in the future. 😟 🚽
But after the scan before last at the end of January, done at a hospital in Westmorland Street, the world also fell out of my bottom. Luckily, I had paid attention to an unexpected unsettled feeling and returned to the hospital soon after setting off for home. I spent a couple of hours there getting well acquainted with the loos before feeling safe to venture out again, and still took the precautionary measure of popping into the John Lewis mother ship, buying a quilt and checking out their refurbished comfort suites on the way home.
At the April scan, which was back at the UCLH Cancer Centre, I had asked about this unwanted effect and whether it was now likely to happen every time but not much information was forthcoming. And in the event, not much happened - a slight unsettled feeling as I had had with previous scans but nothing to worry about.
I asked again before the Cancer Centre scan yesterday and the radiographer who set me up said it was a rare after effect and showed me where the loo was. Anyway, luckily again, Chris got me home in time as this rare after effect happened again.
What to do? So far I have sent an email to the Imaging Department inquiring if different formulations / suppliers provide the contrast medium in an attempt to bypass this particular indignity in the future. 😟 🚽
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