The Madam Curie Memorial Thread - Let's Talk About Your X-Rays

also: 0.04 pica-curies of tim popkins to thread

Before that, I expected it to be like spuds, peas and chops, sprinkled with some barium.

In fact, it's the heaviest milkshake you'll ever have!

Also had an MRI when I was 15 and also xrays of my knees around that same age. Apparently I had a "small hole" in my knees.

I've never had any other kind of x-ray, but I've had a scan. I almost peed.

Will it be a milkshake? I was under the impression they were just going to inject radioactive stuff into my lump and see where it ended up.

in my carcrash in 1998 i dislocated my thumb, and had an x-ray of that -- i forgot to ask for a copy -- it still aches in cold weather

I've had a few quite boring x-rays in my time, but nothing for anything spectacular. I have had couple of chest x-rays when I was little (I've had asthma since I was a kid, and was plagued with chest infections and got pneumonia a couple of times too). My most recent x-ray was about five years ago, on my ankle which was thought to be broken after I'd tripped and fallen, but thankfully it turned out to be okay.

xpost : ultrasound scans!! yes, I had those for both my pregnancies. They were brilliant. It's amazing to see a little tiny person waving at you from inside your tummy.

I had a chest X-ray, too, during that set of investigations. To check for pneumonia and/or TB or those kind of things.

i am fairly sure i broke (or cracked) a toe one night abt three years ago when i stomped grumpily away from the computer after an evening tidying up after calum, and in the dark stubbed it REALLY REALLY badly on a spare door i had taken off its hinges and leaned up against a bookcase -- obv this was calum's fault not in any way mine

cracked toes they do nothing and just send you home again

(I put a china plate directly on the burner at low heat to try and keep a fry-up warm over Xmas. My mum said "don't do that! it'll crack!" and I said nonsense, but sure enough, it cracked. When it was still hot, the crack was wide enough to see through, I could easily get a thread through it, right to the other side. But as it cooled, it sealed back up so you would never know it had been open except for a line in the glaze. I wonder if bones do this, too.)

i don't think they like giving copies out, don't know why. i have a couple of my spine that the chiropractor gave me to give back to my doctor but i never did.

have had ultrasound and, yes, almost peed - they get you to drink an entire pitcher of water and then leave you hanging around forever.

have also had barium treatment although mine was large intestine and, well, lets just say it wasn't a milkshake...

Ah yes. And pregnancy ultrasounds as well.

was fascinating though. was one of those big tilty tables plus the doctor was showing me the monitor and talking me through it as he was doing it, like starring in your own episode of (insert name of real-life hospital tv show, possibly one featuring rolf harris, here).

Noses - they don't x-ray normally. I have broken mine I think 4 times - first time when someone smahed me in the face with a chair, aged 10. The others have been rugby.

Dislocated shoulder - I had an x-ray for this. I know people who haven't though - again depends on other damage and how well it goes back in. I think this is the most painful injury I have ever had, not at all nice when they put it back in the socket.

I have also had chest x-rays as a child for some bronchial problem. I reckon I had 2, so my tally is around 5 in total.

Finger - I forgot. No x-ray, but I broke a finger playing football at HIGHBURY!!

God, why anyone would do sport, with all these pesky injuries...

But then again, I suppose you could say the same thing about guitar playing and wrist injuries. :-/

Playing guitar just hasn't been doing it any good.

I tried wearing my brace today, but it just got in the way so much I remembered why I never wear it. I suppose an operation will be more inconvenient than a brace, though.

http://www.southernhealth.org.au/imaging/images/28_hand.jpg

(Not my hand, BTW, I was just looking at a healthy one for comparison.)

Yup - I've done it yawning, rolling over in bed, turning a steering wheel and, uh, sitting down. And the rolling over in bed one was my good shoulder. Well, it used to be my good shoulder :(. I think there's some kind of surgery I should be considering.

I had a series of leg/knee x-rays (3-4 shots from different angles?) a couple of weeks ago, and just now I went in for a dental checkup and had two more x-rays, one on each side of my mouth.

That's more x-rays in one month than I recall having in my entire life previously! I hope I don't glow in the dark now.

There was nothing very interesting on my knees, either - a little fluid on the one which didn't hurt (!).

OMG you have a skeleton inside of you!

I have calmed down after a couple of a drinks reading that teeth x-rays and below-hip/shoulder limb x-rays are basically nbd. Chest x-rays, which my best friend is going for tomorrow, are a bit more hardcore...

^ things everyone else probably already knew

I could have had the images sent to me but it cost £30 so I didn't. I did spend the £20 to get my head MRI scan sent to me a few years ago, though. Now I (probably) have all the ingredients necessary build a 3d-printed model of my skull! Er, except the 3d printer.