It seems like every time my loved ones try to be “helpful” they just do the complete opposite. Like last night i was talking to my friend saying im probably going in for an xray on my chest and head and an mri and i dont want to because i already had like 5 xrays. (I lost count but its really close to there…maybe 6 idk) his idea of helping me was telling me that other people are in the hospital a lot more often. And i bring up my memory problem with him and he says my memory doesnt seem that bad but it feels like every time i turn around im repeating something or saying i dont remember. I know they are just trying to be helpful but it really doesnt feel like it. And this morning my husband was less then helpful saying something about stress and having a heart attack so i basically disappeared for 5 hours and my goodbye was “yep blame everything on me” i really do seem hopeless. Everything thats suppose to help just makes me worse. Be it my “support group”, therapy, medication, music, likes, whatever…none of it helps me. I havent found a single thing and ive been searching for years. The mri was my idea though. I figured it would give my psychiatrist some insight into what hes working with and maybe give us answers and a direction, but that doesnt mean i like the idea. The 2 xrays is my husbands idea. Somwthing about a breathing problem where i occasionally randomly gasp for air and what most humans can do without a problem will leave me like i just ran a marathon. The other one it too make sure i havent done any damage to my head after hiting it on walls.
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Only you can make judgments for yourself. But isn’t the main problem with x-rays a marginal increase in risk of cancer? Wouldn’t a more likely cause of memory problems be the repeated blows to the head – the kind of brain damage you see in footballers, boxers etc.? The MRI sounds like a good idea. And I doubt doctors would be keen to give you completely unnecessary x-rays.
1) the xrays are for my breathing problem because I believe something is collapsed because my mother choked me one day and ever since then breathing and me havent been friends. And the other xray is to see if I have any brain damage FROM hitting my head.
2) it is nessacary because they are serious health problems. Well I think breathing and possible brain damage would be considered serious
So…sounds like good steps to take? But you’re scared of getting too much radiation? Sorry, think I’m missing the issue here.
i dont much care about the radiation i havent exactly had enough xrays for that to be a problem. now if i was getting xrays every week id be concerned. i just personally feel that at the age of 20, 4-6 is enough xrays for now. it just feels like a thing thats going to be a part of my life at this point for a bunch of different reason (my back, a toothpick i got stuck in my foot (dont laugh it hurt A LOT lol) and now my chest and 2 different xrays for my head) it just feels like too much
Ouch, yeah that’s nasty. I mean no doubt it’s more than your fair share of x-rays. But if there might be stuff wrong with your body then surely it’s better to know, so you can decide how to respond?
I can’t disagree with that. One cant fix a problem until they know what it is. But going through that many xrays in 6 years (they started when I was 13-14) is a bit much and can wear on a person. I personally am only seeing everything wrong with me physically and mentally, it hurts, literally. My arms, legs, chest, head…they all hurt on and off. Between that and all my mental disorders….its just too much.
Oh in case you’re wondering I dont plan on doing anything about the pain in my arms and legs because it comes and goes so fast that by the time I get to the doctor in 1-2 weeks I’ll have nothing to tell him. It at most only lasts a few minutes so it seems pointless to me.
I think I get it. It can be dispiriting when the list of stuff wrong with you gets so long, and maybe you don’t want to find any new stuff. I figure I’ll never be consistently pain free again. If it’s not toothache it’ll be back pain, and if it’s not that it’ll be my ibs, and if it’s not that it’ll be my skin.
Yeah that’s about how my life is lol. Something almost always hurts.