flatterycat
02-04-11, 11:55
Please help
I posted on here when waiting for my results and yesterday wrote what has happened but noone has responded making me think it must be sooo bad.
My consultant rang me yesterday to go through the results of my mri and I am at the end of my tether and don't kow what to think or do. He told me that the mri shows no problems with the brain and that the area they were investigating (my ear) is clear. However he told me that they have found a swollen blood vessel deep in the neck below the brain. He said they want to do another mri to take a closer look. I am beside myself. He told me it was not an artery and nothing like an aneyersim. He also said that depending on the diagnosis I may stay with him (ent) or be referred to a neuro or bone specialist. I asked him if it was life threatening and all he would say was "It doesn't appear to be". I freaked out at this and pushed him on the use of the word "appear" and he said "well it doesn't appear to be" again! I also asked him if it would need an op and he said he didn't know.
I have been looking up swollen blood vessels and can't find much apart from aneryisms which he says it isn't. I then tried to figure out why I may need a bone specialist and apart from cancer of blood vessels couldn't figure it out. He did say it may just be "me" and that mris often pick up things we didn't know about.
All I can think is that it must be something deadly if they need to look again and that he hasn't been upfront with me and is hiding something.
Also his words "appear" are resounding in my head all the time.
Please help me get my head round this someone.
I posted on here when waiting for my results and yesterday wrote what has happened but noone has responded making me think it must be sooo bad.
My consultant rang me yesterday to go through the results of my mri and I am at the end of my tether and don't kow what to think or do. He told me that the mri shows no problems with the brain and that the area they were investigating (my ear) is clear. However he told me that they have found a swollen blood vessel deep in the neck below the brain. He said they want to do another mri to take a closer look. I am beside myself. He told me it was not an artery and nothing like an aneyersim. He also said that depending on the diagnosis I may stay with him (ent) or be referred to a neuro or bone specialist. I asked him if it was life threatening and all he would say was "It doesn't appear to be". I freaked out at this and pushed him on the use of the word "appear" and he said "well it doesn't appear to be" again! I also asked him if it would need an op and he said he didn't know.
I have been looking up swollen blood vessels and can't find much apart from aneryisms which he says it isn't. I then tried to figure out why I may need a bone specialist and apart from cancer of blood vessels couldn't figure it out. He did say it may just be "me" and that mris often pick up things we didn't know about.
All I can think is that it must be something deadly if they need to look again and that he hasn't been upfront with me and is hiding something.
Also his words "appear" are resounding in my head all the time.
Please help me get my head round this someone.