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Join Date: Oct 2006
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: In a DARK corner.... not looking for a way out.
Posts: 5,526
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Originally Posted by dennyfan
Does anyone know what the bone scan shows when you have RSD? This is my situation. I had a bone scan pre-RSD getting DX. It was just in hand & had probably been since 1991. About 5 years ago I had a bone scan that was great. They said I had the bones of a 20 year old (I was in my early 30's) . My doctor did it because I had lost 70 pounds & he wanted to make sure I had done it right & hadnt caused any problems. I had one done a few weeks ago because I have shrunk 3/4 of an inch in only 9 months. The bone scan showed bone loss & osteopenia (the begginings of osteoporosis). Do you think this is tied to my RSD. I havent had an appointment to talk to my doctor about this. Has this happened to anyone else?
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It's my understanding that the bone scan shows the density of the bone in a 3D fashion... someone with RSD will show a decrease in bone density and an uptake or pooling blood in the bone. (ie..blood filling in where bone once was thicker.)
Note... not all people with RSD will have a positive bone scan that shows these things... Radiologist told me that it's a 50/50 shot. Said RSD is hard to diagnose because not everyone has every symptom.
I had X-rays done about 4 weeks apart by different docs... the orthopedic doc showed me how in 4 weeks my bones were already less dense... he diagnosed RSD after a thorough check. (He didn't know that I was already diagnosed with RSD by another doc...)
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