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After lots of chasing I managed to get through to my doctor today and the results of my isotope bone scan show that I do have a stress fracture of the fibula.
At last, finally I get the confirmation of what my physio thought all those weeks ago!
Now I know it is a stress fracture I’m going to see the physio this Saturday to see what the next course of treatment is.
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I had the isotope bone scan today to find out if it is a stress fracture I have in my fibula. It wasn’t half as scary as the information I received the other day made it out to be. The worst thing was finding a car space at the hospital (twice!).
I turned up initially at 11am this morning. After waiting for a few minutes a nurse took me into a room that had a big scanner in it with a stretcher type bed thing attached to it. This scanner was like one of those big washing machine things you see on TV. Not as big as a CT machine… and not as scary at all. There was no control room and no screens… so it just seemed like a bed with a big circular thing attached at the end!
I was just surfing around looking for information about stress fractures and isotope bone scans and found these cool pictures of what stress fractures actually look like on an isotope bone scan image…
I’ve finally received an appointment through to have a bone scan to find out what’s wrong with me leg. It sounds pretty scary - it’s actually called an isotope bone scan - part of the nuclear medicine facilities at the local NHS hospital.
Well I finally had the call from my GP with the results to m X-Ray I had a couple of weeks ago…
The radiologist has said that there are medical signs that are indicative of a stress fracture in the fibula. But, just as my physio said, the X-Ray isn’t conclusive so my GP is now going to refer me for an isotope bone scan.
I feel slightly relieved that first of all the physio was right, and secondly that I’m close to knowing just what’s wrong.
I really am missing running now. Swimming just doesn’t cut it.