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does any one no if i can still go for my heart scan while im pregnant?
ild rather know then waste my time by going up there.
i will ring them in the morning but just wonderd if anyone had,had one??
thnx beck
I am not sure what you mean by a heart scan - do you mean an echocardiogram or an electrocardiogram? Both of those would be fine - like having an ultrasound.
MRIs are fine after the first trimester, I believe.
Otherwise, I'm not sure.
If you know the name of your test, try googling that with pregnancy and safety and see what comes up?
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You can have any scan done while you're pregnant as long as you'll willing to accept the risks. Even x-rays are not recommended while pregnant.
However, a CT scan should not be done whilst pregnant. After my accident I presented in trauma with a broken back and internal bleeding and they still refused to CT scan me, and instead did lots of x-rays and kept me on hourly observations to make sure that my condition stayed stable.
At the end of the day, they need to weigh the risks. If I had major bleeding, I would have been scanned otherwise not doing so could have killed me. However, as I was stable there was a greater risk to my baby by scanning me than leaving me under observation.
Does that make sense?
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