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Re: SPECT imaging has its place in psychiatry » MB

Posted by manowar on December 4, 2001, at 19:14:49

In reply to Re: SPECT imaging has its place in psychiatry » manowar, posted by MB on December 4, 2001, at 18:19:16

> > Good luck with the scans. Please let us know how you did.
> >
> > --Tim
>
>
> Thanks for the wishes of good luck. I don't know yet what I'm going to do about my caffeine intake. The lady with whom I made my appointment told me that caffeine can "really mess a scan up," and one of the leaflets in my intake packet told me not to drink caffeine on **the day of** the scan. But that left me wondering. I mean, when I go a day without caffeine, I'm literally bed-ridden. The headache, nausea and depression are so bad I can't really function. It seems to me that being in such a severe state of withdrawal could also mess a scan up. I wish I could get off of it for a few days before the scan, but my willpower is impotent against the cravings.
>
> Do you drink coffee? If so, how long were you off of it before you got your SPECT scan?

That is fascinating about the coffee. It's remarkable how coffee affects people differently.

Coffee does absolutely nothing for me by itself. When I add it to Ritalin it seems to nicely compliment the CNS activating action of the drug. I told my SPECT doc that I could drink a gallon of coffee in the morning and it didn't seem to pick me up at all. He had looked at my scans and told me that I needed something a lot stronger than coffee to activate my cortex. From what I've read, for ADD it may stimulate the cortex in the short run, but its vasoconstriction effects can make ADD worse in the long run.


I drink maybe a cup or two of coffee or hot tea in the morning, but I could live without it--no problem.

You may want to call the clinic and see if you can get the scan(s) first thing in the morning. But I would make sure that the pdoc doing the scan knew about you're condition. You're right, if you're that addicted to caffeine and suddenly stop it for a day I would think it could seriously alter brain function.

Tell the receptionist you are scheduled to have a scan done, but you have a very important medical concern that you need to discuss with the doctor or his nurse (if he has one).

Don't forget to let us know how it went.
God bless,
--Tim



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