i've only ever had a ct scan while being in the ER, so i was already hooked up to IV's and don't know what they did to me. this is the first time i'm going for one on my own. i don't have an issue at all with them injecting me with anything, i'm obviously not afraid of needles, but i wasn't aware they did it for ct scans.
what is it they inject you with?

they are looking at my kidneys, doing a contrast ct scan looking for stones.

now, i did have something injected into my IV when i had my mri done when i had my seizure, if you're getting the two confused? but you could've had something completely different that warranted being injected with something. they only flushed me with saline personally though. you can tell when they do that, because you taste it in your mouth.

omg, stomach bleeding? you poor thing, fuck, i hope you're okay.

i'm also going to ask them if they can give me something for the pain i've been having. this, according to my doctor, might not be a kidney stone at all, but a possibility that because i stretch so hard the way i do, and so often, that i have pulled something right in that area, and it is giving the same feeling as a kidney stone.
but i don't know. i suppose it's possible, but i've had enough stones, though never fully passed, to know what kidney stone pain is.
if they can't give me anything for the pain where i'm going, a prescription or something, i'm fucked. OTC medications do not work on me, because i have exhausted them from my TMJ disorder already for years. they are all useless. i can't take the medication i took before for the chronic pain from my TMJ either, because it lowers the seizure threshold, so they want me off of it for at least a month or two until my body is healthy again (though by the i will be in canada, and hopefully the tylenol with codeine they sell there OTC will be enough to help me with my pain). i just need something, for now, to get me through this kidney stone, or whatever it is, until it's passed. the heating pad does not do anything for me, and i get the pain right now not constantly, but at random moments, as if the stone is stopping for a long period of time, then slowly moving a very short distance.




on another note, i'm watching mandible on cam right now and he is asleep. we leave our cams on all night. he is breathing and his nose is whistling and i'm tempted to wake him up to make it stop.
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they always ask me if i'm afraid of needles, and i just stare at them as if they're stupid.
when i had my surface piercing on my wrist, i had a nurse ask me if i had a needle fear, and i said no. she asked me if i was sure, so i showed her at the time every one of my piercings and explained how the surface wrist was done. 5 minutes later i think she finally got the point that needles don't bother me, so just take the fucking blood already you damn vampire. ugh.