Quote Originally Posted by Nanci
Wow, Sarah, I can't believe how long that took to develop. Do you really maybe have asthma, or did that all evolve after the flights, and cause you to think you did, then?
I have been having trouble breathing for months, following an upper respiratory infection I got end of March. The lingering breathing issues and the fact I've always been a "fluid-y lung" person led me and my doctors to believe it was asthma. Now I am not so sure.


Quote Originally Posted by Nanci
Back to the CT. I worked in CT for about five years, and would always warn the patients that they would experience a warm, or even hot sensation from the IV contrast. Ok, so I had to have a chest CT with contrast a couple years ago. Well, what no one ever told _me_, probably because they hadn't ever had IV contrast, is that you get HOT right in the COOTCHIE area!! Nice...(Plus the rest of the body to various degrees, but it was really hot there! Don't know why.
Yeah - that was SUPER scary - and I was specifically warned that it would make me feel like I'd lost bladder control, because it gets so hot down there right away. It was really nice because they had the woman who actually gave me the IV stand right there and hold my arm as it was going in - I was up to my boobs in the CT machine but it wasn't on. Having her actually touching me while that was going in was a HUGE comfort.