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Originally Posted by braingonebad
This may vary. On my films, some of my lesions show up on more than one picture but many do not. But that is probably because mine are relatively small compared to how far apart the slices were. The lesions are/were about 3mm, and pix were also about 3mm apart.
Most are within (if I remember right) about 3 or 4 levels, or pictures.
I asked for copies of my MRI films at the time they were done, and they were ready a few days later along with the report. I called ahead, got the films at radiology and report at Records. You can try that with your tests, too.
Comes in handy for all the doc visits - as if that stuff makes it in time for your appt, iykwim, if you don't bring it yourself.
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I got copies of all my medical history from the time I started to go to the doctor's office that I go to now (records go back about 15 or 16yrs) and got myself a 3ring binder and loaded it up with my previous medical history, and then added all the tests for the MS and all the medical problems I've had since the MS symptoms showed up. Put a couple of plastic CD holders that fit in the rings of the binder and added my MRI scans.
When I went to the MS Clinic at one of the local hospitals, the nurse practitioner just LOVED my medical binder. She was so excited that I had everything organized by specialty (neurological, urologic, general medicine..) and that I had copies of my MRI's.
None of my records had ever made it to the Clinic, so she just made copies of what they needed from my stash of info, and burned copies of the MRI cd's. She said if everyone was that organized, her job would be a lot easier to do. Plus, she was able to look at my records and then ask me questions about what was going on and write my answers directly on her copy of the reports.
She was nice and had copies of whatever records the Clinic wrote up on me and had them all in a nice manila folder for me later that week. Neatly arranged in order of importance for me. I made a "MS Clinic" section of the binder, so that if I had to go to another clinic, I'd have exactly what the local MS Clinic tested me for.
This way I dont have to have all my doctors send information separately to any new doctors. I also scanned them into the computer and saved everything to a cd. Did that because the binder was getting heavy. Next time I have to have records delivered, I'm just going to mail a copy of the cd instead. Or carry one with me. Much easier than lugging the originals in the binder.