Hida Scan Question

Are you sure you are going for a hida scan? I didn't have to eat anything for mine. Are you sure it's not a gastric emptying scan because I know you eat something for that(egg sandwich I think)?
Hida scan takes about 1 1/2 hours. An hour for the first part and 30 mins. For the second.
They first inject you with a radioactive dye that highlights your gallbladder and take pics for an hour then second they inject cck--a hormone that causes your gb to contract, and take more pics for 30-60 mins. That's all there is to it. I think I was told not to eat anything after midnight.

Donna

I was told not to eat after midnight, maybe the lady on the phone was mistaken. Because my doctor requested a hida scan and thats what the referral has listed. Anyway thanks for the info I will have to confirm this with my dr when I see him on thursday.

Just had a hida scan and it lasted nearly 2 hours . . . And involved iv injection of die . . .

Also had the gastric emptying test where I ate the radioactive egg and washed it down with oj from a lead cup . . . :d

hope this helps!

I had a hida scan today. It last 1 1/2 hours. They injected the radioactive substance and it took awhile to show my liver, gall bladder and intestines. If you can see all of this, does that mean they will not do surgery? They have confirmed gall stones.

Thanks, hope someone can help

Hida scan requires 4 to 8 hours fasting. You get injected with a radioactive tracer so they can see your liver and gallbladder. You may be injected later during the proceedure with cck to test the gallbladder ejection fraction. There was a period of about 8 months a few years ago when cck wasn't available due to a production problem. Some places got their patients to eat instead of cck during its unavailability.

I'm so glad to have found this website. I've read many of your postings and it gives me great comfort in knowing that i'm not the only one who seems to be suffereing with gb problems that seem to be near impossible for the doctors to detect!

I am a healthy 35 yr old. I have been suffering with gb problems for what seems like an eternity! I had an ultra-sound performed on wednesday and it did not detect any stones. I had a hida scan just thisd morning and am awaiting the results.

I'm wondering if anyone can tell me? The first round of dye injected to fill up my gb, I felt instant pain. Before the test was over, I have to go to the bathroom. Lots of pain with that one.

The second round, the 30 minute part, I was nauseous the entire time and continued feeling the same pain.

Almost every person in my extended fanmily, male and female, has had a diseased gallbladder. Some had stones, some did not. I'm getting to the point where I just ant it taken out. My sister suffered with gb diesease for a very long time. In fact, her gb ruptured before hers was remed. She is a year and a half younger than me. The doctor kept telling her she had acid reflux (which I have), then they told her she had an ulcer. Neither of which were true. She had a bad gb. I am afraid something like this will happen to me before anything is detected! As i've read through this, I notice that you can apparently have a negative reading on almost all test and still have a diseased gb.

Does anyone have any helpful hints for me? I'm starting to lose it!

It is possible to have negative results and still have a bad gb. I had mine out the end of march the only test I had that said anything was wrong was the ultrasound. It shown that I had a inflamed gb wall and cholesterol polyps. The hida scan came back normal. Blood tests didn't show anything was wrong.
But make sure that is what is wrong with you, because you wouldn't want to have your gb removed and still be dealing with the same problems afterwards. I am dealing with a bunch of problems now that mine is out--but their due to gastritis which I had before anyways.

Good luck!
Donna

In may, donna posted a reply saying that radioactive dye was injected for the hida scan. Please - we do not use radioactive dye. Nuclear medicine, the department which conducts the hida exam, uses no dye of any kind whatsoever. We use small amounts of radioactive mixed which particular chemicals depending on what organ(s) we want to look at. Dye is used in x-ray and cat scans. People can be allergic to contrast dyes; no one can be allergic to radioactive materials which we use, nor can they be allergic to the chemicals mixed with the radioactivity reconstituted to make the imaging agents.

Jeff, nuc med tech

I had several times pain un upper right side and nausea....Dr sent me for a hida scan. They told me I would have the tracer injected and then later cck to contract my gallbladder. Once they determined I had not had an ultrasound, they did this after the tracer scanning finished. When I came back from the ultrasound, they said I did not need the cck because I had the ultrasound. They did not imply anything was abnormal during ultrasound....So why would they have not finished with the cck?

Chris

I have been dealing with the pain on and off for a couple of months now. I had a bad attack last friday. I ate lunch, then I was in terrible pain for several hours. I felt like someone was stabbing me in the abs, and it shot all over my back. I went to the urgent care center and told them my problem. They did an ultrasound that came up negative. I then went to my regular doctor who told me I must have an ulcer, threw me some sample acid reflux medicine, and told me to take it for a couple weeks and took some blood. How frustrating! Today I heard from the doc at the urgent care center. We scheduled a hita scan for friday morning. I hope something is detected so I quit getting treated like it's all in my head from my regular doctor. I don't have any heartburn problems, just sharp pains that give me terrible sweats. And nausea and constipation. I'm glad to see that my problem is common, but why is it such a problem? Painfully confused

I had the hida scan with ejection fraction done on wednesday, and I was just wondering if this shows up the appendix also. I have been having alot of abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and lost about 25 pounds in 30 days. Now along with all these other symptoms, I am having a burning, numbing kind of pain in the upper right thigh. The dr just looks at me like I am crazy. Any ideas??? Thanks