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- May 6, 2016 at 5:18 pm
Just wanted to get a pulse on if I am being crazy or not… regrettably, I partially tore my achilles playing softball last night. I was scheduled to have my routine 6-month followup CT scans on Monday but I delayed them until July so I can get through this achilles recovery. I am stage 4 but approaching 2.5 years NED after a successful bowel resection a couple years ago. I feel fine and have no symptoms that would indicate a reoccurrence but I also recognize that symptoms are not always present. Although I am ok with a 2 month delay in scans, does that seem like too big a risk?
Kevin
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- May 6, 2016 at 9:29 pm
Hey Kevin,
Glad you feel like playing ball, but sorry you crash landed! I doubt your injury would confuse anything on a CT scan…1. They're probably not scanning your ankles and 2. CT's don't "light up" with inflammation the way PET scans do in a confusing sort of way…esp with you having a known, specific injury. However, the every three month then every 6 month scan routine is a rather arbitrary "rule" that somebody just made up….so I think you are fine to wait. You'd hate to have the scans….meet up with a flip/flopping radiologist…and have to repeat them all just for clarity.
Hope your injury resolves quickly!!! Good luck, celeste
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- May 6, 2016 at 9:29 pm
Hey Kevin,
Glad you feel like playing ball, but sorry you crash landed! I doubt your injury would confuse anything on a CT scan…1. They're probably not scanning your ankles and 2. CT's don't "light up" with inflammation the way PET scans do in a confusing sort of way…esp with you having a known, specific injury. However, the every three month then every 6 month scan routine is a rather arbitrary "rule" that somebody just made up….so I think you are fine to wait. You'd hate to have the scans….meet up with a flip/flopping radiologist…and have to repeat them all just for clarity.
Hope your injury resolves quickly!!! Good luck, celeste
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- May 6, 2016 at 9:29 pm
Hey Kevin,
Glad you feel like playing ball, but sorry you crash landed! I doubt your injury would confuse anything on a CT scan…1. They're probably not scanning your ankles and 2. CT's don't "light up" with inflammation the way PET scans do in a confusing sort of way…esp with you having a known, specific injury. However, the every three month then every 6 month scan routine is a rather arbitrary "rule" that somebody just made up….so I think you are fine to wait. You'd hate to have the scans….meet up with a flip/flopping radiologist…and have to repeat them all just for clarity.
Hope your injury resolves quickly!!! Good luck, celeste
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