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?

It kind of reminds me of when I had pneumonia last July, and me and my coworkers (at the hospital, in radiology) were all diagnosing me with different things like kidney stones...It took me from Thursday till Monday to actually figure out I wasn't going to get better on my own, and then my doc's office wouldn't see me till Tuesday, and when I went in, and described my back pain, the doc is like, well, you have pneumonia, that's a sure sign, but we'll x-ray you anyway.

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.

Nanci