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11-22-2013, 01:04 AM
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Location: Michigan
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns doctors of the rare but serious risk of heart attack and death with use of the cardiac nuclear stress test agents.
The cardiac nuclear stress test agents Lexiscan, or regadenoson, and Adenoscan, or adenosine, are FDA approved for use during cardiac stress tests in patients who cannot exercise adequately.
Read more: FDA warns of cardiac nuclear stress test agents Lexiscan and Adenoscan - UPI.com |
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11-23-2013, 05:22 PM
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Location: Greater Greenville, SC
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Glad I had my nuclear stress test last year before this news came out. I would have been even more terrified!
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11-23-2013, 05:51 PM
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Location: Mostly in my head
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PhotogGal
Glad I had my nuclear stress test last year before this news came out. I would have been even more terrified!
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Yeah, me, too! |
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11-24-2013, 04:25 AM
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Location: Florida
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Of course this had to be posted the morning of the day my husband got scheduled for one.
I mentioned it, sort of jokingly, to the doctor. He just gave me this look 
Did check the info sheet and see that it won't be with one of those chemicals |
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11-26-2013, 11:07 AM
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My doctor wanted me to have a nuclear stress test but I told him, no - I will do the regular test. He said ok, and when I
went to schedule it, there it was again "nuclear stress test." I said no again and it was changed. btw, the cost of a nuclear
stress test can be between 5-7 thousand dollars while the one without the dye costs $2000.00.
I will not have any nuclear dye injected again. Many years ago I had one done for my thyroid (wasn't thinking - could have
had an ultra sound) and 14 years later I got thyroid cancer (and I know it was because of that test and my endocrinologist
also agreed).
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11-27-2013, 04:24 AM
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Location: Florida
23,002 posts, read 24,610,579 times
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Quote:
Originally Posted by baileyvpotter
My doctor wanted me to have a nuclear stress test but I told him, no - I will do the regular test. He said ok, and when I
went to schedule it, there it was again "nuclear stress test." I said no again and it was changed. btw, the cost of a nuclear
stress test can be between 5-7 thousand dollars while the one without the dye costs $2000.00.
I will not have any nuclear dye injected again. Many years ago I had one done for my thyroid (wasn't thinking - could have
had an ultra sound) and 14 years later I got thyroid cancer (and I know it was because of that test and my endocrinologist
also agreed).
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Not saying this to argue with you but for suggestible people that might read and be influenced by your post.
It sounds as though you already had some thyroid associated problem 14 years ago or there would have been no need for the test.
I would say that over a 14 year period there could have been many things to contribute to the advent of cancer .
I'll also bet no doctor would ever have said definitively that the test caused the cancer....maybe agreed that it could have ...but any doctor worth his/her salt would never state what can't be proven |
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11-27-2013, 07:06 AM
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The doctor was a noted endocrinologist in a major city and there was no other factor that contributed to it other than
the radioactive iodine test.
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