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[–] AlligatorBlizzard 56 points 3 days ago (2 children)

My mom has some kind of acid reflux issue. To diagnose, they had her swallow some radioactive thing and x-rayed her. It was so bad the doctor called in a whole flock of med students to watch the radioactive tracer yo-yo in her esophagus.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I had a doctor call in students to look at a huge ball on my neck while I was waiting in the ER for my diagnosis. They shoveled my into different devices 3 times, at one point I saw 7 people crammed into the CT diagnostic room which was obviously made for not more than 3. Turned out I was an excellent example for a (at that point merely assumed) Stage 1 Lymphoma.

Happened about 8 years ago, am healthy now (thank you fellow german taxpayers 👍). Btw, don't hesitate to ask for THC in the hospital if you suffer brutal Nausea & Emesis during chemo, it really helped me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

thank you fellow german taxpayers 👍

Glad to help! And if I ever need it, I know I can count on you too.

[–] skulblaka 4 points 2 days ago

I have a feeling I'm going to be getting a lot of use out of this one soon

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

If it was an x-ray, isn't it a little weird to use a radioactive probe (or contrast agent)? I thought that for GI things it is usually a just contrast agent that absorbs x-rays really well... barium or some shit.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard 18 points 2 days ago

It was probably a contrast agent like you said, I don't have any kind of medical background, I just know that it lit up under imaging and the med nerds thought it was interesting, lol.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

You're correct, it's a barium solution. I've drank it myself, it's moderately gross.