Guest guest Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 Hi Dolly, Well if you can still see some and hear some, you're better off than a lot of folks. CT scans done at night are not unusual, because the machine is available then. Often booked solid all day for folks in the hospital or who come through the emergency room. But do verify that it's 6:45 PM and ASK them how long they think it will take. It depends on whether you have it with or without contrast. I've had them as fast as 15 minutes and as long as 45. So do ask. Also ask if you're having contrast, because that will mean not eating prior to the test. Lots of us CI users have diabetes. Those one touch jobbers are great. The old ones used to take 45 seconds to work, now it's 5 seconds. Make sure your meter and your test strips have the same number on them. It's fairly large on the test strip bottle, and it will show up when you insert a strip into the meter. But check each time you start a new bottle to make sure the number on the test strips is the number on the machine. Probably the most important thing with diabetes is to eat regularly. Don't go too long between feedings. Today I was very shaky, and blood sugar was pretty low and I realized I hadn't eaten in 7 hours. Not a good thing. Do you need to test every day? Probably not. And tell that lazy eye of yours to " shape up " . Lazy eye was just an expression used to mean that your eye wanders. Since most men have wandering eyes anyway, I wonder why they never get told about it? LOL. The Original Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 8, 2006 Report Share Posted April 8, 2006 Hi , Thanks for the good tips. I have gone sometime for over 10 hours without eating. The last few days I have been trying to eat " regularly " . It is hard but I know having diabetes is to eat more smaller meals especially have breakfast. Thanks for the tip about the contrast part. However on the appointment slip for CT Scan beside the words " Nothing to eat or drink..... " they put down " 0 " (with a slash across the 0) and two words " no prep " which I presume mean I can eat during the day. I will have to tell Dr. Garber I am a diabetes and now taking a medicine for it. My pharmacist told me about the number on the bottle should match the one on the monitor and the first half of the manual book I had read also mentioned " make sure the number matches " . My left eye read your " shape up " and it's telling me to tell you " NOPE!! " Lol. Dolly Dolphin Hi Dolly, Well if you can still see some and hear some, you're better off than a lot of folks. CT scans done at night are not unusual, because the machine is available then. Often booked solid all day for folks in the hospital or who come through the emergency room. But do verify that it's 6:45 PM and ASK them how long they think it will take. It depends on whether you have it with or without contrast. I've had them as fast as 15 minutes and as long as 45. So do ask. Also ask if you're having contrast, because that will mean not eating prior to the test. Lots of us CI users have diabetes. Those one touch jobbers are great. The old ones used to take 45 seconds to work, now it's 5 seconds. Make sure your meter and your test strips have the same number on them. It's fairly large on the test strip bottle, and it will show up when you insert a strip into the meter. But check each time you start a new bottle to make sure the number on the test strips is the number on the machine. Probably the most important thing with diabetes is to eat regularly. Don't go too long between feedings. Today I was very shaky, and blood sugar was pretty low and I realized I hadn't eaten in 7 hours. Not a good thing. Do you need to test every day? Probably not. And tell that lazy eye of yours to " shape up " . Lazy eye was just an expression used to mean that your eye wanders. Since most men have wandering eyes anyway, I wonder why they never get told about it? LOL. The Original Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 10, 2007 Report Share Posted February 10, 2007 Lol, thanks . The only problem the doctors/nurse might have with me is to wake me up. When I had the surgery to remove tumour (which result replacing the lower right jaw bone with plastic plate), it was to last only for a few hours, be awake in time for lunch, but nawwww, my body was to darn cosy in bed and refuse to wake up until 9 pm so missed dinner too. When I woke up it was dark outside and there was a very cute stuff white poodle staring at me on the table that my friend left seeing I was sleeping like a baby. The nurses did everything under the sun to wake me up, even tickling my feet (according to my friend). So, the only thing that might prevent me is still have to much hearing. Dolly Dolphin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 Thanks for this information. I been told by many people that I must have Usher 2. Dolly Dolphin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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