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Physiology & Medicine / Re: What is the difference between a CT Scan and an MRI scan?
« on: 29/05/2012 13:00:34 »I can't find how to start a new topic so I am replying to this topic. I have had a lot of problems and pain this week in my lower stomach (where I suspect my ovaries would be). It started Monday when I had a gush of blood accompanied by pain. The Dr said I had a cyst burst and sent me home with no tests done. The following day I was in so much pain so I went back to emerg and they kept me there all day. The Dr on call was the same Dr whom I seen the first time he ran a X-Ray, Ultra Sound and a Ct scan and found nothing. I'm still in a lot of pain and the pain has spread from my lower stomach to shooting down my right leg and my lower to mid back now. Will a MRI show things these other tests couldn't?
If all those tests were ran and it came back nothing then my suggestion to you if this has not been taken care of yet because it has been a year ago, is to go to a regular primary care doctor because ER doctors only run tests and look for certain things not the whole problem, if nothing was seen then for sure follow up with a OB doc and have them run your ultrasound and further tests! I have experienced this myself and I was told by my OB doctor that I have what is called varicous veins in the legs well I have that in the uterus and what happens is it swells up with inflammation right before the period comes and is to much blood flow in the uterus and can stay through out the menstrual and really there is nothing to do about it other then hysterectomy OR if you are bleeding constantly and non stop they have a procedure out that I just learned about it is called NovaSure and they do this which stops menstrual altogether (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endometrial_ablation) to avoid hysterectomies. The other thing is I'm sure you found out by now what it is, but it could have been a tubal pregnancy even though they ran an ultrasound maybe they did not detect it yet, did they run a pregnancy test? I'm sure they did if they ran xrays they have to. Have you had kids before? Another pain that can be happening is from having kids is a prolapse bladder, I went into the ER from this pain and they ran a CT on me because I was complaining of these pains and they wanted to check my gallbladder on a CT and other organs it all came back normal of course and they did pelvic exam and he tells me I don't see no prolapsing going on etc..., etc......well first off I knew he was crazy because my ob had just told me I had this, and I just recently went to another OB and was diagnosed with prolapse and the extra blood flow in uterus! So see don't always trust ER they are good to help the pain some and run test but not to look at the whole picture! Another thing that could be going on with you is if you have had kids also is an umbilical hernia of the belly navel, I have that and have to have surgery for them to correct it because it flares up and swells up and it pulls and tugs and gets caught up in there and I can't stretch my abdomen area because it will hurt like hell and shoot pains as will the prolapse even with intercourse and as the extra blood flow in uterus. The last and final thing is it could be your sciatic nerve those can cause lower abdomen pain and shoot into the legs and you also have what is called round ligaments in there and those stretch like a rubber band from and with pregnancies and when pregnant a baby will basically bing them back and forth and they hurt like HELL also, I've had that with 2 of my children. I'm curious to know if you found out what was causing your pain so if you get this message please write back, I'm very interested in knowing what your cause of pain was? Thanks!