Posted by alohashirt on March 6, 2005, at 19:20:30
In reply to Re: Are brain SPECT scans useful? » SadDoggie, posted by Chris O on March 4, 2005, at 17:42:29
My pdoc, who is part of a multidisciplinary team that specializes in ADHD said he thought the results were uncompelling so far - too early to be very useful. He related one experience of a patient who's diagnosis was missed. One part of the problem may be that Amen himself isn't involved in the day to day interpretations of the scans.
Do you expect that the results fo the test would change the likely treatment regime? Do you have an ADHD diagnosis already?
> Not covered by my insurance, which is good (Pacificare). Believe they are around $2,000. The therapist I am seeing swears by them, saying they have been accurate in helping one hundred percent of her patients. She sent me to a psychiatrist who also believes strongly in them. I'm more of the mind that I can just experiment with meds on my own
> rather than pay the money and inject myself with a radioactive isotope to get the brain pics. I don't know though. I just wanted to know if anyone here had gotten a positive diagnosis via a SPECT scan.
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> Chris
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