All clear
@GardenGerty (169406)
United States
July 16, 2021 1:29pm CST
Got the phone call. My carotid arteries are all clear. That is the good news.
BUT incidentally there is a nodule in my lungs this scan picked up. I have to go back in on Monday for another test, with contrast to look at it.
Same thing happened to my husband last year. He has been scanned for "a nodule in his lungs" at least twice. I think it is three times.
I can tell them what it is. They will not be able to tell, and they will want me back in six months to do it again.
In Dec. 2019 and January 2020 hubby was cutting sheet rock out of one of the walls. 90 year old sheet rock. We did not wear dust masks. We became ill in January with lots of coughing and congestion. About the time covid hit the US. Actually before it had been positively identified.They are pretty certain it was here.
I believe we had covid. We ran fevers and coughed forever and ever.
The antibodies from covid are not very long lived. By the time they were testing blood for covid (Red Cross, blood donors) it was almost a year later. I had no antibodies. We did not get sick enough, either one of us, to go to the doctor when we were ill. We did not get pneumonia.
So next Monday I do the dye in my veins again, and get scanned, again. It is likely to be nothing. Story of my life.
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
16 Jul 21
I have no confidence in any one diagnosing anything !!
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
16 Jul 21
I know. It feels like "Oh, you are on medicare, let us run some tests."
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
17 Jul 21
@BelleStarr Your husband? I know there is a lot of that around.
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
17 Jul 21
@GardenGerty well I’m glad I now know he doesn’t have West Nile virus!!
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@RebeccasFarm (91299)
• United States
17 Jul 21
Oh I see Heather, I hope it wont be anything now to worry about.
I hope it was not any thing in the sheet rock too.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
17 Jul 21
I think it is harmless, whatever it is.
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@RebeccasFarm (91299)
• United States
17 Jul 21
@GardenGerty Yes you would know I am sure.
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@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
17 Jul 21
It's good that your carotids came out clear, but that doesn't help in finding out why your're having your problems, does it.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
17 Jul 21
No, it does not. It could be the fibromyalgia, but no one considers that.
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@snowy22315 (208746)
• United States
16 Jul 21
Glad your carotid tests came back clear.I hope your nodule is nothing to worry about as well.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
16 Jul 21
They will want to check it every six months, just like they do with hubby. It is nothing, I am pretty sure.
@changjiangzhibin89 (17239)
• China
17 Jul 21
It is great that your carotid arteries are all clear ! How do you make it ?
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
17 Jul 21
I am not sure why my carotid arteries are all clear. I eat a relatively good diet, and I do not smoke. I am guessing that is why. I used to exercise quite a bit.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (17239)
• China
18 Jul 21
@GardenGerty Just as what the doctors tell us :Keep exercising and keep your mouth in check-eat a relatively good diet.
@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
16 Jul 21
Oh, I still think it is a pinched nerve or compressed disc in my neck that is causing this problem with my hands and dizzyness. Maybe the check on my lungs will show something else.
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@GardenGerty (169406)
• United States
18 Jul 21
Actually they are causing some boredom. I am sure it is fine.
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@Dena91 (17029)
• United States
17 Jul 21
Glad you got a good report on your carotid arteries. Praying for your next set of tests on Monday. 
