Can anyone help with nuclear medicine bone scan results?

[26goingon90]

Hi,

I posted here a little while back and had some amazing responses. Ive been suffering with what seem like the symptoms of an autoimmune disease for the past 8 months. Tiredness, horrendous joint pain, flu-like symptoms, poor circulation to name a few. Until recently all my blood work has been fine, only now has my blood work started to show problems - high CRP, high ALP, low WBC and RBC.
I went for a nuclear medicine bone scan last month - and have just had a letter which states:
”No abnormality in extremities.
Symmetrical uptake around shoulders, hip joints and greater trochanters bilaterally.”

Can anybody medically clued up give me any idea on what this could point to? As I’m baffled.

Thanks as always ♥️

If you google this phrase Symmetrical uptake around shoulders, hip joints and greater trochanters bilaterally you will find quite a lot on what 'uptake ' on bone scans means.

The 'extremities' means the parts of your skeleton such as hands, feet, etc, away from your torso/spine.

Bilaterally means it's on each side , symmetrical means it's the same on each side of your shoulders, hips and trochanters.

Your trochanter is a part of your hip joint around the ball and socket joint.

The uptake can (according to google) means some kind of change, such as inflammation or degeneration (ie arthritis.)

Uptake occurs in areas of inflammation, the reason for inflammation can be varied. The level of you CRP will provide an indication of the reason for the inflammation. Really you need to see a doctor who can examine you and interpret the results in combination with a clinical examination.