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Can I Be Given More Bisoprolol Or Other Before The MRI To Get Better Images?
Question: Dear Doctor Spaho, I felt very encouraged by you so I kept a positive attitude. Before that I was depressed and pessimistic. Thats why I communicated better. The lady you referred me to, Lira Nasto, gave me an email address in Turkey, They got back to me with an assessment. They dont feel I have cancer(like you) but have an onko check to check from head to toe for cancer markers. Lira said I could have the tests locally to save costs. I told her I will do that. The doctor doing my neck xray decided to do am MRI instead. They told me my sinus tachycardia made the MRi images low quality. I have also been recommended for parathyroid surgery by a private consultant in Cork. I have hoped for this operation in years. I had waited 8 mo to see this consultant. I hope the surgeon he wrote to agrees, and dont know how many months it will take to be scheduled for surgery. I want to get all my problems seen one by one. I want to get better. Do you agree my irregular breathing will screw up my MRI images? Can I be given more bisoprolol or other before theMRI to get better images? You
Brief Answer:
I would explain as follows.
Detailed Answer:
Hello again and thanks for the direct question.
I’m happy to see that you are on the right track with your health issues.
Bisoprolol, or other drugs such as benzodiazepines for example, may be used in case of MRI of the structures included in movement to increase image quality.
So, you can discuss with your Doctor the possible ways to increase MRI image quality.
I hope this helps.
Feel free to ask if you have further questions.
Take care.
I would explain as follows.
Detailed Answer:
Hello again and thanks for the direct question.
I’m happy to see that you are on the right track with your health issues.
Bisoprolol, or other drugs such as benzodiazepines for example, may be used in case of MRI of the structures included in movement to increase image quality.
So, you can discuss with your Doctor the possible ways to increase MRI image quality.
I hope this helps.
Feel free to ask if you have further questions.
Take care.
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Dr. Vaishalee Punj
I got my MRI reports today so I have attached them. Please can you explain in non-technical terms what my MRIs are saying. I suppose I have developed osteoporosis.
In October last year, I snapped my wrist falling down with syncope and that time my shoulder also got injured. They kept me on hospital 4 days for that wrist injury giving painkillers but did not look at the shoulder. My shoulder has actually healed better than my wrist, and is just difficult to move while the wrist is getting more painful. What type of injury does my shoulder have, and will it heal itself? Is it possible my shoulder fractured during this fall, but the fracture healed itself? Is my wrist just like my shoulder, so there would be similar injuries if they did an MRI of my wrist? Is there any point doing an MRI of my wrist - assuming there was a point doing the shoulder if only to know what the injury is.
What is your assessment of both MRIs particularly the cervical one? What type of disease do I have? Is it progressive, like multiple sclerosis? What is it? Can this progress of degeneration be stopped? What are my treatment options? Is my life effectively over?
Is it that my spinal cord which comes down from my brain is enclosed by vertebrae, and these vertebrae have decayed, and are encroaching on my spinal cord? Have I got the right picture? If so, surely these vertebrae
can pinch the spinal cord as to cut it into two pieces, so much I get paralyzed die or asphyxiate? If someone kicked my neck with their boots that could happen?? Have I got the right picture? Can it be operated and placed right so I don't suddenly collapse? Maybe these are silly questions.
The endocrinologist who recommended me to have my parathyroid operated said all my bone problems are arising from high calcium due to high pth. Would my neck problems also be a side effect if these bone problems? What are the possible side effects of my pinched spinal cord? Can I throw up get dizzy or get tachycardia or syncope due to it? Why did they prescribe me Valoid at the hospital?
You see I get knocked over by other pedestrians more than average, in a crowded town. I don't have any neck pain today but sometimes a sharp twinge as I walk. How bad is it? Am I just waiting for a sharp jolt of my body squeeze my spinal cord so that is the end? Sorry maybe I have wrong notions but count on you telling ,me the bad news if any
In October last year, I snapped my wrist falling down with syncope and that time my shoulder also got injured. They kept me on hospital 4 days for that wrist injury giving painkillers but did not look at the shoulder. My shoulder has actually healed better than my wrist, and is just difficult to move while the wrist is getting more painful. What type of injury does my shoulder have, and will it heal itself? Is it possible my shoulder fractured during this fall, but the fracture healed itself? Is my wrist just like my shoulder, so there would be similar injuries if they did an MRI of my wrist? Is there any point doing an MRI of my wrist - assuming there was a point doing the shoulder if only to know what the injury is.
What is your assessment of both MRIs particularly the cervical one? What type of disease do I have? Is it progressive, like multiple sclerosis? What is it? Can this progress of degeneration be stopped? What are my treatment options? Is my life effectively over?
Is it that my spinal cord which comes down from my brain is enclosed by vertebrae, and these vertebrae have decayed, and are encroaching on my spinal cord? Have I got the right picture? If so, surely these vertebrae
can pinch the spinal cord as to cut it into two pieces, so much I get paralyzed die or asphyxiate? If someone kicked my neck with their boots that could happen?? Have I got the right picture? Can it be operated and placed right so I don't suddenly collapse? Maybe these are silly questions.
The endocrinologist who recommended me to have my parathyroid operated said all my bone problems are arising from high calcium due to high pth. Would my neck problems also be a side effect if these bone problems? What are the possible side effects of my pinched spinal cord? Can I throw up get dizzy or get tachycardia or syncope due to it? Why did they prescribe me Valoid at the hospital?
You see I get knocked over by other pedestrians more than average, in a crowded town. I don't have any neck pain today but sometimes a sharp twinge as I walk. How bad is it? Am I just waiting for a sharp jolt of my body squeeze my spinal cord so that is the end? Sorry maybe I have wrong notions but count on you telling ,me the bad news if any
Brief Answer:
I would explain as follows.
Detailed Answer:
Hello again.
I have read your follow-up question, I examined the MRI reports too.
About your neck MRI, there are found degenerative changes of the vertebrae and intervertebral discs, that, in my opinion, are somewhat normal findings as we age.
There are no sinister or serious findings of your spinal cord, so, you should not be worried about dying or some serious neurological condition.
About your shoulder MRI findings, some of the tendons that compose the rotator cuff of the shoulder are ruptured or broken.
After this time, it is unlikely for these tendons to heal, an evaluation by an experienced Orthopedic Surgeon is necessary.
Osteoporosis is evaluated by measuring bone density.
The wrist also may have been included in the MRI examination.
Hope this helps.
Take care.
I would explain as follows.
Detailed Answer:
Hello again.
I have read your follow-up question, I examined the MRI reports too.
About your neck MRI, there are found degenerative changes of the vertebrae and intervertebral discs, that, in my opinion, are somewhat normal findings as we age.
There are no sinister or serious findings of your spinal cord, so, you should not be worried about dying or some serious neurological condition.
About your shoulder MRI findings, some of the tendons that compose the rotator cuff of the shoulder are ruptured or broken.
After this time, it is unlikely for these tendons to heal, an evaluation by an experienced Orthopedic Surgeon is necessary.
Osteoporosis is evaluated by measuring bone density.
The wrist also may have been included in the MRI examination.
Hope this helps.
Take care.
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