12:25am May 16, 2014

➸ So I got my MRI yesterday.

clatterbane:

youneedacat:

And I’m finding myself uncharacteristically nervous about awaiting the results. Because I don’t really know what results would be better.

They’re looking primarily at my pituitary gland. They’re looking for any defect, bleed, or tumor that could explain why my pituitary gland is not making ACTH,…

I can definitely understand the anxiety. Maybe especially being one of the ones who did have an adenectomy—and then lost insurance and couldn’t get any followup MRIs/much other needed testing (or treatment for some continuing endocrine problems). Not knowing what’s going on can be very hard to deal with sometimes, especially when most of the possibilities are pretty serious.

Hope you do get the results soon. That may be a promising sign that there was nothing super-obvious visible when they were doing the scan, though. The tech and radiologist were not very subtle about seeing something immediately on my initial scan. Still had to wait for the official report, but yeah. :/

I was really out of it during my scan, so I don’t know what they were reacting like.  Between the lorazepam, and the fact that the noises kept putting me into some kind of trance/shutdown state, I honestly remember very little of what went on in there.  And most of what I remember is synesthetic stuff – like the colors I saw because of the noises.

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