What is CT?

Thanks for your reply. I still do have loss of appetite, nausea, feelings of vomiting. I also experience dizziness. I'm a small person and my doctor gave me 100 mg of this and I feel like it's to strong for me. Its' been more than a week I feel like this and I actually have to call my doctor that this is how I feel and maybe I need half mg. I'm feeling better not hundred percent. I still experience these symptoms and still in pain.

Thanks,
Melissa

I'm taking the one called doxcycycline hyclate. I'm to worried because I just want it to show up to know what's the problem but of course hopefully nothing serious.

Thursday I'm having the CT and breast ultrasound done and I have to be there early. Of course I'm thinking positive right now it's been about a week that I'm still not feeling good. By Monday if I don't see any difference with my appetite I prefer calling my doctor.

Thanks,
Melissa

I wanted to also mention that since I'm taking antibiotics now I haven't had any appetite for the past week out of how I've been feeling. I have this weird pumping feeling in my stomach and I have no idea what it is. I'm so scared of this whole feeling and I have this dizzy feeling inside me that feels like I should take it out. I"m still in pain I'm a small person and I feel like the prescription is to strong for me. I want to call my doctor on Monday because of this and I don't know what to do.

Melissa

Thanks for your reply. I know antibiotics helps to heal and since I'm having this prescription and having a CT done next week I want to know would a CT still show the problem even though I've had antibiotics since it heals the problem? You know what I mean by this I don't know exactly how to explain it. I've been taking medicine and medicine helps to heal and having a CT done does it show the problem even though the area is healed?

From what you're explaining meaning a CT shows the under arms also? My main concern is that this test shows the underarms because it's where the source of my problem is.

I just hope everything goes well and show the problem but hopefully nothing serious. I'm only 27.

Thanks,
Melissa

Melissa,

CT stands for Computed Tomography. It is an imaging method that uses x-rays to create cross-sectional pictures of the body.

You will be asked to lie on a narrow table that slides into the center of the CT scanner.

Once you are inside the scanner, the machine's x-ray beam rotates around you. (Modern "spiral" scanners can perform the exam without stopping.)

A computer creates separate images of the body area, called slices. These images can be stored, viewed on a monitor, or printed on film. Three-dimensional models of the body area can be created by stacking the slices together.

You must be still during the exam, because movement causes blurred images. You may be told to hold your breath for short periods of time.

Generally, complete scans take only a few minutes. The newest scanners can image your entire body, head to toe, in less than 30 seconds.

In your case, the CT will likely be done in your breasts and underarm and it will aid your doctor in diagnosing a possible infection, Identify masses and tumors, including cancer, and study blood vessels.

If the antibiotics have eliminated the infection, then good for you-- your pain should be gone and there is nothing more to it. However, if after having a round of antibiotics you are still having this pain then your doctor may want the CT scan and Breast ultrasound to determine if there is an underlying condition such as a mass or tumor, or if you may still have an infection and require further treatment.

I hope this answered your question,

Rosa