To ask if anyone else can't follow instructions in medical appointments?!

[WhenIwasyoungersomuchyounger]

After I had a CT scan yesterday and tried to lie the wrong way on the bed?! 😳

@KilkennyCats The radiographer (hope that's right!) said it would be twenty minutes and then laughed and said I mean twenty seconds!

I think it was more than twenty seconds, but only took about two minutes, which is amazing cos I really needed a wee! 😂

@GentleSheep Oh they did try to explain to me! 😳And I tried to go face first on my tummy, like I was going down a waterslide!

I'm the same in pilates though, takes me a while to coordinate my body with the instructions, at least there I could follow the others though 😂

I went for an ultrasound at 39 weeks pregnant where baby wasn’t playing ball so the sonographer asked me to stand a bit away from the side of the bed and rest my head and arms on the bed so that I was bent over and my belly was kind of dangling to see if she could view what she needed with me like that.

So naturally I climbed onto the bed on all 4s 🫠😂 and then couldn’t get down when she told me thats not what she’d asked me to do 🥲

I gave up with a gown, a nurse took pity on me and tied me into it

Not a f ollowing instructions story, but a being horribly uncomfortable story. I had a camera up my bum, I said to the doctor ' it really hurts my partner said it wasnt painful, he must have a slack ring piece'. I was soooo embarrassed wtf was I thinking 😂

I wanted to take the triangular support pillow home it eased my hip pain so much. I also got a free blackout mask because I said it was so amazing 😂

It’s ok . When I was in labour ready to push , the midwife had to remind me to take my knickers off 😅

Ooh, I've got lots of stories from when I worked in the ED!

@Nannyfannybanny Any you can share? 🤔

I feel better reading this. The last time I went for a mammogram I was directed to a changing room but for some reason I burst through a different door and there was someone in there having a mammogram and several staff shouting, No!

I couldn’t work out why I did it. It’s probably not knowing what to do/where to go and not really listening to instructions while so much is going on.

I was in the room whilst My 7 year old was on her front for a hand ct

My x-ray last year was the opposite, the radiographer seemed to not understand me! I had fractured my elbow and also had pain in my wrist so they wanted to check for a scaphoid fracture. Now I understand that the scaphoid isn’t easy to x-ray but I couldn’t rotate my arm because my elbow was fractured and he kept asking me to move it here, twist it to there and it was bloody agony! Bearing in mind he’d also x-rayed said elbow it was a bit much

Oh! I’m booked in for a knee MRI which I’ve been seriously dreading because it means lying still for anything up to an hour 😮
If I thought it was a couple of minutes I could walk it.
Here’s hoping…

Haha that's brilliant!

I am a GP … I could tell some stories but I would be struck off !
It’s hard being medical when you are unwell though … I had fertility treatment and multiple IUIs and IVF at a clinic with specialists I had drinks with.. on;y fertility clinic in my city.
This week I am having 2 intra- ocular lens surgeries (one each eye). I am terrified and working out how to ask
the anaesthetist for some drugs to make me very fuzzy without sounding 1. Like a wimp 2. Like a drug addict.

LunaTheCat, I have white scars on my right hand and arm from looking after a friend's pet rabbit about 30 years ago, 18 years ago I had abdominal surgery and the surgeon insinuated I was a heroin addict, I've never even smoked a cigarette! Course,these days I probably would be accused of self harming.

I am 10 years retired,a lot of the people involved are now dead,so will share a few. ED, called casualty then. Lady comes,we used to have name, address, occupation,in those days. I was around 30, very young shy Dr. Patient is a social worker, says "I have this spot on my nose ,it wont stop bleeding, shall I get undressed". Dr assures her it won't be necessary! He looks at me panic striken, "I'll,undress them" she says and does,her underwear is filthy,grey, smelly, underneath her immaculate suit. Dr asks if she's been picking the spot,"oh,yes". A staggering amount of people came in after RTCs make patients and both wives and girlfriends are informed of said accidents. People having Cardiac events and strokes, while with females, NOT their spouses. Last one, she managed to get him into the driving seat, called 999, fled, and he unfortunately died. People say all sorts of peculiar things on morphine, like the nun who screamed,swore like a navvi and claimed she'd just had a baby,it was a D AND C.

I work in Radiotherapy CT
We occasionally do scan prone , so we can mark up for treatments.Depending on Radiotherapy treatment site

@LunaTheCat Ask away! I did that (non medic tho) recently when getting a double job -endo and colo same day. I have a phobia of choking and hate hate hate that mouth guard thing they put in to do the endo. So I said it to the nurse who was doing the pre procedure stuff. End result, they were terrific in the procedure room, midazolammed me up for the colo first, so I didn't care about the mouth guard when it came to that bit of the episode!

Worth asking, as we are all human (including medics 😊) and it makes life easier for the practitioner aswell when the patient is calm.

Oh I get the lala juice when I have eye surgeries, wonderful stuff I don't remember a thing. Phone the clinic to arrange it.

"la la juice" 😂

I was a CT radiographer; you go in different ways according to what we’re scanning. I’m so aware that stress and unfamiliarity make people panic a bit, so I used to speak and mime!

‘Okay, sit here’ (physically pat the bed where you want their bum); ‘lie down on the bed with your head (lightly tap my head, and point) here’ -tap the pillow; ‘feet there’ (point at the scanner); ‘looking up’ (point at the ceiling).

This was usually pretty effective, but if someone did attempt to lie face down, we’d say ‘lie on your other back!’ and everyone would smile as the patient flipped over.

We honestly get it. Similarly, if a patient puts on the gown the wrong way round, unless it exposes them in any way, I leave it be. If they say ‘is this wrong?’, I say ‘it doesn’t matter as long as you are comfortable enough’.

I make sure that my patient never feels stupid, though, occasionally, it can be annoying when a patient is quite aggressive about how ‘last time, I did it THIS way!’ 🤔

@Fordian You sound lovely and I'm sure you made your patients feel very comfortable at a stressful time, thank you 💐