I used to think x-rays meant you had to sit in this box that had magical powers to be able to see my bones, and now that I’m older, I realize that that’s not the case. I’ve had one CT scan and about 8 x-rays done in my life. The x-rays were for the hereditary bunions I have, but the CT scan was way more scary than the x-rays. When I was about 12 years old, something really strange happened to me. Because I didn’t really know what was happening to me, I thought I was dying. I woke up one day really excited to spend the last day with my grandma before she went back to her home in Oregon. About an hour after I woke up, I felt really strange. I felt like I was in a dream, and my vision went weird as if I was staring at the sun for a few seconds. After about 5
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I was terrified, but I did what all the doctors instructed me to do. They told me to get up on the table, lay down, and to not move a single muscle. Once I was on the table, the doctors all left the room and I was all alone. One of them pressed a button and the table started moving into the machine and then I had a blue X shining on my face. The machine started rotating around my head and I felt like I was being transported into another dimension. After the CT scan was done, they wheeled me back into my room. We stayed in there for about 20 minutes before the doctor came back with the results. Since my symptoms were gone by the time they did the CT scan, nothing abnormal showed up on the scan, so we went home still wondering what had caused those weird things to happen to me. The doctors told us that it might be some type of migraine, I’ve had about 8 of these migraines since I was 12 and we still don’t really know what causes them. We assume that the migraines are triggered by low blood sugar, so I have to eat about every 3 hours. It’s a lot of hard work to eat that frequently, but I haven't had a migraine for almost a year
I was terrified, but I did what all the doctors instructed me to do. They told me to get up on the table, lay down, and to not move a single muscle. Once I was on the table, the doctors all left the room and I was all alone. One of them pressed a button and the table started moving into the machine and then I had a blue X shining on my face. The machine started rotating around my head and I felt like I was being transported into another dimension. After the CT scan was done, they wheeled me back into my room. We stayed in there for about 20 minutes before the doctor came back with the results. Since my symptoms were gone by the time they did the CT scan, nothing abnormal showed up on the scan, so we went home still wondering what had caused those weird things to happen to me. The doctors told us that it might be some type of migraine, I’ve had about 8 of these migraines since I was 12 and we still don’t really know what causes them. We assume that the migraines are triggered by low blood sugar, so I have to eat about every 3 hours. It’s a lot of hard work to eat that frequently, but I haven't had a migraine for almost a year