Here's an update if anyone's still interested.

Monday, I went to the doctor. He asked if I read his email, and I played it off as if I thought it was an old reading.

He said it was not, then that was when I said I was bit confused since they were quite similar.


I got the doctor to review the radiologist report. (Thanks for the tip Mvoyvich)


Anyway, he pulled it up on the computer and read it. I asked about the discrepancies. He looked at my old records, and he said that MRI and CTs can have different reading and measurements.

I pretended to agree, but I stayed on the point that one said a remnant and another said the thymus was 5.7 cm., leaving the thought that it was a vast difference in the air unsaid.

I did maintained my stance that I have to understand why I was fighting to breathe one year ago, which started all of this.

I mentioned the quick turn around/analysis of my MRI and he said it was possible for the radiologist to do the report in that time. In fact, I think I was off by 22 hours, so I actually had my appointment nearly one day before the email.

So, there was a possibility it was read, but it didn't explain the drastic size change or why it was written as if contrast was administered.

The doctor said I should get a second opinion.

I didn't want to make a big deal of it, but I did ask the doctor to give a printout of the report, even though he quietly told me he shouldn't be giving this report.

I kindly thanked him and inched out the room.

I should mention that CT's are notoriously "wrong" when it comes to measuring anything in the body. I had a situation where a radiologist measured my kidneys and he was off by about half, which is significant for a kidney (meaning it looked like it had shrunk). So it may be that the information you got was correct, given the restraints of the "tools" used to measure the thymus.

That is true, but I had 3 CTs and 3 MRIs. Out of the six tests, 2 said remnants (the very first and the last) and four measured something that was 2.5 cm to 5.7 cm.

What I know about CT scans is to think of a moving tire with a nail in it. The CT scan may get the shot of the nail or it might miss out on that image.