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Hemangiomas or Lesion on Liver
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Hello, I understand your concern. Last year, I went into the ER for abdominal pain. They did a number of scans. I was diagnosed with bladder cancer. I recovered from that. The urologist recommended I see him every 3 months to be checked. While I was in the hospital, they sedated me for an MRI of the abdomen. The hematologist told me to come back and have another MRI done in a year. He told me the hemangioma of the liver wasn’t a big concern. Since I have my claustrophobia, I will have to be sedated again. I get stressed out thinking about the MRI. I occasionally have mild discomfort of the right side. I have many issues. I have GERD, constant nausea, anxiety, stress, depression and no gallbladder. Sorry, I don’t have much insight for you regarding the hemangioma. My mild discomfort could be from that or because I don’t have a gallbladder. I’m not sure if your discomfort is from the hemangioma. Wishing you good health, as well.
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Hello, thank you for your reply. I am glad to hear that you were able to recover from bladder cancer. I understand very well how anxiety can wreak havoc in your life too. I am fortunate that I don't have claustrophobia to the degree that it prevented me from having the MRI done as I understand it can be debilitating for some people. Have you looked to see if your area has a facility that has an "open MRI" scanner available? I have read that these were developed to help reduce the anxiety that people have being in a "closed" tube for scanning. These machines have come a long way. Years ago I had one and the "tube" was very closed in and skinny but there was a mirror that was very close to my face but was distorted or refracted in a way that when you looked at it, the reflection was of your feet (which were outside the tube!) It was supposed to help your brain to remember you weren't entirely "enclosed" I don't know how much it helped... I kept my eyes closed for the most part! Yesterday when I had my MRI I expected the same type of machine but there was no mirror in that machine however the enclosure was much wider. While I did go into the inside of a tube or large pipe, it was not nearly as close to my body. There was quite a bit of space around me and I would say the tube diameter was at least 3-4 foot around. There was light from the room around me coming in at the bottom and the top and because of that I knew that my arms and bottom legs were sticking out of both ends and I wasn't truly enclosed. I felt very calm and relaxed. There are also scanners where you don't go "inside" a tube at all. They look like they slide you on a table between two giant bagel slices. It is totally open! Perhaps you will be lucky and have access to that somewhere in your area! Any way, I do wish you luck with any future scans and results. I hope that your issues get better and you find lasting relief as quality of life is so important to our well being.