 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 624 | Hi Nelie --
The last PET Barry got, Hopkins sent us a letter to avoid all significant physical activity for 24 hours before hand. An article posted on the OCF News (mid-March, as I recall) quotes a doctor studying this to recommend avoiding exercise for 48 hours. I know the radiologist at our hospital was also quite clear about not "jiggling, tapping feet or fingers, etc." just before hand which was also mentioned in the above article. I downloaded detailed pre-PET instructions from another CCC's web site and they added advice about not eating foods containing a lot of sugar for 24 hours beforehand, to be sure the body is a bit sugar-deprived and will take up the labelled glucose.
Amy's right, you should probably skip the serious PT until after the scan.
CG to husband Barry, dx. 7/21/05, age 66, SCC rgt. tonsil, BOT, 2 nodes (stg. IV), HPV+, tonsillectomy, 7x carboplatin, 35x tomoTherapy IMRT w/ Ethyol @ Johns Hopkins, thru treatment 9/28/05, HPV vaccine trial 12/06-present. Looking good!
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