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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Unbeliever" data-source="post: 286072" data-attributes="member: 30851">Re: Has anyone ever had a fluorescent angiogram on their eyeSorry SG keep meaning to answer your shellfish query but seem to be distracted each time [senility}As I understand it it is not the shellfish in itself it is the fact hat the dye is based on iodine. It is really the iodine allergy they are looking for . Most people would not know if they had an allergy to it but it is likely if a person is allergic to shellfish .Thas why they ask you about allergies in general .I have always been assured there is a very small risk in any event.  Its a very strange thing but I understand that that all the fuss about the angiograms -which frightens the life ou of patients and I know i does  because i was absoluely terrified the first ime is based on an absolutely miniscule risk  of serious side effectswhile the injections I have in the operating yheatre every few months carry a 50% chance of blindness from one cause and 25%from another.  Although I have to consent each time and am asked about allergies etc and all he procedures with hygeine etc are taken and an anaesthesist is there it is somehow not s intimuidaing as the palaver that used to surround the angiogramsI can only assume it has something to do wih the hospital's insurance.So if you go blind ias a resukt of a procedure in the operating theatre thats OK but if you were seriously ill as a result of the angiogram it would not please the insureres.The allergy question applies in both.  Maybe its because angiogramas are now done so frequently and they haven't yet caught up with the injection business.But really not to worry SG , your journey o the hospital is probably more risky than the procedure.  I have given up worrying now .I have found that if I have a problem with any of it it is always with something I never considered or wouldn't have known about or have had done dozens of imes before.In some ways being familiar with it all makes life easier but in others  it has the opposite effect.  Because i am almost an inmate I know so many of the saff I also know which are the most efficient and i sudder when certain people are on duty .Apart from procedures which fail and have to be repeated  because certain staff are less adep than others the worsre thing hat happened to me  was after a caaract op which was combined with another procedure and needed medication for a few weeks afterwards. My penicillin allergy was duly considered and i was given another drug mean o be very safe. Guess what?I can't remember ever feeling so ill   It ook me 3 weeks to get back to the hospital for my check up,Such a reacion has never been recorded before.  of course there are always risks with any treatment  but wih the scans i think you just have to remeber hat hey are used daily for many conditions.I have noticed that they are using much less dye nowadays  in order to reduce the possible effect on patients.  So you shouldn# be yellow for long!</blockquote>

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