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Pastimes : Heart Attacks, Cancer and strokes. Preventative approaches
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To: Ken Adams who wrote (38594)1/25/2024 4:41:35 PM
From: ig  Read Replies (1) of 39322
 

I haven't researched this at all, but plan to. For starters, can a full body scan be done as a Cat Scan? I'm too claustrophobic to even consider the MRI.

I think there are at least three kinds of full body scans: CAT, MRI, Ultrasound, and probably more. They each give different kinds of info. Ultrasound is probably the cheapest and best bang for the buck unless you have a problem that only an MRI can find. I haven't started my research on this. It will be a few weeks before I can get around to it.

With regard to claustrophobia: I've had many brain MRIs (to keep an eye on a brainstem meningioma) and one prostate MRI. The prostate scan was hard to handle -- over an hour in the tube with the white ceiling of the tube a few inches from my face.

Then I went for a brain scan and they had a mirror-and-movie system that made it seem like I was on a nice beach under an open sky, and they had a ventilation system that gave the feeling of a gentle breeze on a nice day. It was a piece of cake. Now I ask for that machine every time.
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