So last week I had a CT scan on my small bowel. Should have been pretty straight forward but mistakes were made!
So first off I drank a load of movieprep whilst I waited. After half an hour they took me through to insert the cannula in the vein in my arm. The nurse did not seem confident, she asked a colleague to look at my vein first to check. She then proceeded to makes a complete hash of it, caught my artery and blood sprayed everywhere.
I then had one nurse putting extreme pressure on the area (imagine having someone jam their thumb into a bad bruise) whilst the inept nurse went to work on my other arm, which thankfully she managed to do this time.
Due to the sudden change in blood pressure I nearly passed out, I needed to lay back on the bed and drink water.
After 5 minutes I started to feel normal again....but guess what...by this time the movieprep was kicking in. I had to get to the toilet and do my business fast!
Then I hear a bang at the toilet door, it is my turn to go through to the scan. By this point I am one handed (my strong arm still badly bruised and immobile) so as you can imagine I was a bit pissed off by this point as none of this was my fault. So I hurriedly clean up and open the door to 3 nurses and a wheelchair.
The CT Scan itself was fine, quite relaxing in fact, but what had happened before really left a bad taste in my mouth.
Since, my arm has been aching a lot and throbbing at times, if anything it has got slightly worse as time has gone by.
Has anyone else had arm pain since cannulas/injections etc?
So first off I drank a load of movieprep whilst I waited. After half an hour they took me through to insert the cannula in the vein in my arm. The nurse did not seem confident, she asked a colleague to look at my vein first to check. She then proceeded to makes a complete hash of it, caught my artery and blood sprayed everywhere.
I then had one nurse putting extreme pressure on the area (imagine having someone jam their thumb into a bad bruise) whilst the inept nurse went to work on my other arm, which thankfully she managed to do this time.
Due to the sudden change in blood pressure I nearly passed out, I needed to lay back on the bed and drink water.
After 5 minutes I started to feel normal again....but guess what...by this time the movieprep was kicking in. I had to get to the toilet and do my business fast!
Then I hear a bang at the toilet door, it is my turn to go through to the scan. By this point I am one handed (my strong arm still badly bruised and immobile) so as you can imagine I was a bit pissed off by this point as none of this was my fault. So I hurriedly clean up and open the door to 3 nurses and a wheelchair.
The CT Scan itself was fine, quite relaxing in fact, but what had happened before really left a bad taste in my mouth.
Since, my arm has been aching a lot and throbbing at times, if anything it has got slightly worse as time has gone by.
Has anyone else had arm pain since cannulas/injections etc?
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