Hi, I am looking for help and advice. Please be gentle with me.
tl;dr I really don't want to have gadolinium dye for a liver MRI. Does anyone know of options, or what they did before gadolinium. I have googled around but not found much. Please don't write if you are angry that I don't want the dye.
After an "absolutely fine" ultrasound in December I got a letter for an urgent CT scan for a "probably benign haemotoma" on my liver.
Then a letter to MRI with gadolinium dye, still for the "probably benign haemotoma" but I wanted to avoid the gadolinium, so instead I had 3 month re-CT scan a couple of weeks ago.
I now have a letter saying "the liver lesion" (singular) has not grown significantly but again they want me to have the MRI with dye.
Someone just rang me to make the appointment, so I asked further because I haven't been able to actually speak to anyone since October.
The dye is required to "answer the question the dr is asking".
What's the question?
Seems there are multiple lesions and I will definitely need surgery...but still not sure what the question is. Also, reading my letter again I wonder if the booking person I spoke to misread that bit.
I'm a bit stressed.
I did read that cutting a cancer would mean no option for a later transplant as it might spread, however I also read that primary liver cancer is extremely rare, so most likely it would already have spread.
OK I'm waffling now.
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Liver MRI gadolinium dye, options.
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HidingUnderARock · 16/05/2019 15:10
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