Anyone have a HIDA scan? I'm having one monday. The gallbladder ultrasound looked fine but they wanted to do more studies. And my liver showed abnormal tissue on ultrasound....yay(sarcasm)......Anyway, just curious what to expect....Thanks

2 hours ago, J_Mkay said:

Anyone have a HIDA scan?

@J_Mkay

ok -i'll bite

what is a HIDA scan??

good luck with your pending sleeve and surgery

kathy

I'm having one soon too. From what read, it's not much worse than an mri machine. I haven't ever had any sort of contrast injected, so I'm not sure what to expect from that. Please tell us how it goes!

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It's super easy. They lay you on your back between two camera heads (so no, it's not worse than an MRI machine-trust me those are bad). They start an IV and they inject a radionuclide (about the same as being in the sun for 30 mins). Then they take pictures as the radionuclide moves through your gallbladder (instant, every minutes, then every 2 mins. etc). And the test lasts about 45 mins to an hour. What they're looking at is to see how slowly or quickly the radionuclide leaves your gallbladder. The longer it takes that means you have sludge or stones. If it moves out within x amount of time (depends on the hospital), then your gallbladder is fine.

Cool Beans, don't have a gall bladder anymore, took mine before these neat tests cam out. I miss out on all the neat things in life, I get the ones where they put a tube in your nose, hand you a glass of water and say"Now start swallowing, we'll tell you,if we want you to stop" Meanwhile I'm chugging away ,hoping they stop before it extruded out the other end. Bah dump dump dump!?