RE: Has anyone dealt with serious allergic reaction to CT contrast

[Guest guest]

If I was in your situation I would be talking to my husband

about switching doctors. What is the benefit to your husband that outweighs the

risk that he is experiencing?

Kathy

From: ProstateCancerSupport

[mailto:ProstateCancerSupport ] On Behalf Of Genie

Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 2:57 AM

To: ProstateCancerSupport

Subject: Has anyone dealt with serious allergic

reation to CT contrast

I need help to understand what we can do in our particular

situation.

My husband is allergic to the contrast dye in the CT scan. As

he's done each CT scan he's getting more reaction to it. He's taking

Prednisone the night before and the morning of plus another drug to combat the

reaction. He does this only in a hospital setting because of the seriousness

of his reaction. The Prednisone is not doing the job and we are very

concerned. He is continuing to need monitoring after each CT scan as a

doctor is called in because of his reaction to the contrast.

His oncologist will not allow an MRI instead. We didn't know how

serious this could be until we consulted another oncologist who said he could

actually die from the contrast at his level of reaction.

We are at a loss. We are at a facility where our medicare

pays for the tests. His oncologist still will not allow any other method

of testing.

Has anyone else dealt with this. I have to go back to

our consultant and find out why he said he 'could' do an MRI instead and

advised against another CT scan.

Is there something about an MRI that won't work? Why the insistance

of the CT scan.

Any thoughts on this that I might take to our oncologist.

I've had conversations with our doctor about this without any consideration of

our concerns. I can not push this doctor more than I have, which is

actually to explain how my husband feels and how the reactions are getting

worse.

Is it money?

I do need information to bring to our doctor to see if we can budge

the situation. It is the only time I've seen my husband emotional. He's

very upbeat but knows this is detrimental to him in many ways...

thanks

grace