That's seriously got to be the most difficult part of the job. And honestly it's the thing I'm most worried about after I finish clinicals and have to do this in the wild, especially in OB 😞
Yup. I went in for a leg ultrasound and Tech told me to get comfortable and call my family cause I was gonna be here for a while. I had a DVT stay in the hospital for nine days
@@TheMuirite yeah. A couple of months ago I went to my anatomy scan and my tech stopped and was like I'll be back in a few I'm going to have the doctor look over these and came back and told me she needed to do transvaginal ultrasound because I had plecenta previa and then afterwards I was told also placenta percreta
I flat out told the man that did the ultrasound on my dead kidney “I know you know what you’re looking at, can you just tell me if I’m screwed or not?” And he leaned in and said “I’m not supposed to say anything, but it’s looking like your kidney might be gone for good.” And then a few seconds later he goes “But shhhh, ultrasound techs don’t know how to read the scans.” And then winked at me 🤣🤣 and that was the day I found out I only have one working kidney lol
@@itsthatonechickagaincallth7843 I don’t understand why these people pay so much for schooling just to be told “you can’t tell people what you know about the field you paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to be an expert in” 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤣🤣
@Maddyfish Because techs are NOT trained in radiology to read images for diagnosis. Only the doctor can read comprehensively and diagnose. It's a clinical knowledge and liability issue. The techs do have experience to know what they're looking at and if something is abnormal looking enough to take additional images or consult the provider. Techs have a 2 year associate's degree.
@@kasa9884 well when you have two kidneys for instance and one of them is nice and plump and looks like exactly how it’s supposed to but the other one looks like a shriveled up testicle, I think at that point they should be allowed to tell you it doesn’t look good🤣🤣🤣
My ultrasound tech found the cysts that my doctor denied seeing months prior on other scans. Got my diagnosis cause of her and am on the road to managing my pain 😊
@@himenyx153 I did. He retired during the 6 month break between when he looked at my charts and when they were reevaluated. I left for college less than a month after my diagnosis so legal action was too expensive and time consuming on my end.
@@Stormy_MeadowsI am finding that out. I’m now on regular monitoring and on a list to get the surgery I need to hopefully eliminate pain in my future! It’s about taking on each trial one day at a time.
I started crying during an ultrasound because she was really quiet and kept going over the same places for what felt like FOREVER. Then she spent an eternity typing before she FINALLY said the word "benign." I was like bitch I'VE BEEN LIVING A CANCER DRAMA IN MY HEAD FOR LIKE A HALF HOUR.
Oof I had one of those. Turned out to be my third ovarian cyst, but this one was combined with a fibroid. She never said a word, just got up and got the doctor.
Literally had an ultrasound for a blood clot and for breast screening and the moment when they say “I’m calling the radiologist/doctor before you leave” if when you start panickinf
My ultrasound tech asked "so, it's your left side? Where your pain is?" And i was like 👀 yeah, but i didn't tell you that. Turns out I had a pretty large ovarian cyst on the left side.
@@skachor I saw the order and it just said "abdominal pain", no specifics. But I have had ones that are specific. Like when I had kidney stones it said "left flank pain."
@@totka8259I had a total of 21 ovarian cysts, 10 on one side and 11 on another, never got them removed, she said I would basically bleed them out with my period. I bled for like 15 days straight, then had VERY heavy periods for the next three months, it's only until now that my period is stabilizing again back to my normal flow. We theorized that I got mine due to an STD that I didn't know I had so I didn't get it treated for MONTHSSSS until I started to feel pelvic pain and VERY painful sexual intercourse so it also depends on the reason why you got them in the first place.
Honestly, I wish they did tell us what they found. I was scanned, they found huge cysts on my ovaries, doctor never fucking told me because its not clinically relevant, then several years later one of them ruptures and it would have been SUPER helpful if at least one person told me they were cysts instead of having to wait another 2 years for an outpatient appointment with a gyno. 😒
Ugh I’m so sorry. Ruptured cyst was almost as painful as labor imo. Cyst pain was actually worse for me in some ways. I think that’s pretty relevant info, especially when a cyst ruptures and you’re in 10/10 pain and don’t know what’s going on
I had the opposite happen. My ultrasound tech was looking at my kidneys and found huge cysts on my ovaries so she slotted me in again for another appointment to confirm and then told me there and then about my results, even though they said they weren’t really supposed to they wanted me to have all the info. The ultrasound techs were the most supportive and understanding of my pain the whole time whereas the doctors were quite dismissive at times, I’m so grateful for them and now I’ve had surgery and am relatively pain free because of it.
@tiannagames Yeah, I get that there's nothing to be done about them, but if I had've known I had one, when it burst I could've told the medical team and avoided several hours of them running around not knowing wtf to do. Hell, it took nearly 4 hours to even get pain relief.
I had an amazing tech for my 20 week scan with my daughter. She could tell how anxious I was, so she leaned in and whispered, “I’m not supposed to tell you this, but between you and me, everything is looking perfect. That’s a healthy baby on the screen.” It was perfect because my appointment with the actual doc wasn’t for 2 more weeks. Saved me so much undue stress.
I went in for an ultrasound suspecting gallstones and the tech was all "I'm not supposed to say what I see but if there was a gallbladder full of stones, this is what it would look like." And flipped the screen around. Just an organ full of gravel.
@@ichbinschlechtinclashroyal6833Yes. You have a surgery where they remove your gallbladder. It's pretty much useless and non-salvageable by the time it is full of stones. The body has gotten used to not using it.
The radiology tech who did my spec CT gave me my diagnosis because she knew the doctor wasn't looking at my hips, only my spine, but my limited mobility was coming from a deviation in my pelvis. The doctor talked about slight compression in my lumbar spine and didn't mention my deviated pelvis. The tech saved me another 6 months of fruitless diagnosis seeking.
That was a shit doctor then, the radiologist has to look at every slice and make appropriate comments on everything, not just what the immediate area of concern is.
@opulentpieyoga9079 the doctor made it very clear that he felt like I was wasting his time. My pain and the fact that I couldn't properly walk or sit down didn't seem like any kind of concern to him.
I had a burst tube due to ectopic pregnancy and my ultrasound tech told me she had two ectopics while she was scanning me to check the tube/bleeding. I was so grateful to her for sharing. It made me feel that there was life/good things on the other side of my pain and hardship. ❤
@@RJones-tn5vg yeah I just say that I’m not comfortable with other people in the room unless absolutely necessary and that usually stops that from happening.. and if they do I start talking about how uncomfortable this is making me at the moment and that makes everyone feel awkward so they leave :)
@@RJones-tn5vgsometimes the other sonographer is helping them get better images or understand what they're looking at. We write up the reports that the doctor signs off on.
@@RJones-tn5vg it's helpful to have others scan as well to make sure we're getting the best images. Sometimes it isn't even a crazy pathology, but just having a difficult time getting the images.
Bladder fullness. My first ultrasound I drank two 16oz water bottles because that’s what they told me. “Your bladder isn’t full enough I can’t see anything”, I drank another 16oz. Second ultrasound I drank MY ENTIRE 52oz water bottle and I wanted to die because it hurt and she kept pressing on it saying “wow you drank a lot huh” YES NOW HURRY UP
Too relatable… wasn’t aware I had to have a full bladder and even though I chugged so much water my bladder wasn’t filling! had to reschedule and the next time I made sure I had a full bladder…every second I was in there felt like hours! 😂
so true they thought my appendix had burst and they didn’t let me drink water for the test so it was even worse. they had to give me like 5 bags of fluids and then later had the AUDACITY to write in my report that my bladder was “enlarged” HUH I WONDER WHY-
I drank so much with my first and had to pee so bad it hurt, laid on the table for 5 seconds then she says "I need you to empty your bladder" I never drank extra for an ultrasound again and always did fine
@@BickyToyashe told me next time don’t drink the recommended amount lol. Apparently if you drink water/ stay hydrated pretty consistently, you should be fine
Ultrasound techs rock! When I had blood clots that almost took me out of here, I asked the tech, “ Is there anything wrong?” She pushed me back on the cot and said firmly but with great love, “ Lay back and please please do not move.” She then SPRINTED from the room, yelling for a doctor right away! I had 7 clots ! Her quick reaction may have saved my life. Thank you for all you do!!
I certainly hope your story isn’t true. Any sonographer that would react that way needs to be fired. And this is coming from a sonographer with almost 30 years of cardiovascular ultrasound. When you see something unusual or life threatening, you make sure you don’t show it on your face and find an excuse to leave the room to contact the doctor. Or you just finish up,the study and contact the reading doctor right away.
@@TheCrazyMoparDude68 What you're saying could cause a relative of your patient to hunt you down and take you out if your silence leads to the patient dying, or being seriously incapacitated. You may want to increase the payout on your life insurance policy.
My brother had a defect on his kidney. Luckily the ultrasound tech was very thorough when my stepmom was pregnant. He discovered that small anomaly and made sure it was taken seriously. That technician's good work the reason my little brother is healthy and living a normal life, I'm thankful. On another note, my brother's kidney doesn't work on full capacity and had the ureter reconnected on the lower part of the kidney, so it does look weird. A couple ultrasound techs have been weirded out when they are examining him.
When I was pregnant, there was student once for one of my ultrasounds and after asking if I was comfortable with a student and all and the formalities, she put the wand on my belly and said “oh, your bladder is very full” in a happy tone and I giggled so hard at it lol 😂
I have a large calcified splenic cyst, and every time I need to get an ultrasound for something unrelated, I make sure to tell the techs, because I know they don’t get to see those all the time.
Not sure which field you are planning to go into, but if you are just looking at doing echoes or vascular I would skip the 4 year schools and just go to a two year school that teaches either. It is a lot less expensive and you can get out and start making some good money sooner. I have only met one sonographer that went the 4 year route that remotely impressed me. The others didn’t know much but felt superior nonetheless. The best students,and eventually sonographers, that I ever had all went to two year programs. And in many cases, if you learn how to do echoes (cardiac ultrasound) many places will teach you vascular. Most cardiology departments and cardiology clinics do bother echoes and vascular ultrasound.
I wish ultrasound techs were allowed to report THEIR findings (cysts doctors deny, etc) and then say, these were my findings and we will see if the doctor agrees...doctors can be so lazy and not address findings THEY feel aren't relevant ...
And again, that's ridiculous. More pieces of information, not less. Just with the caveat that it may not be telling the full story or whatever @@elizadawne3896
just got that one done...thankfully, this one did not have the sound on...when you hear your own heart beating as you are getting your ultrasound it is kind of scary!
do you have to know math skills for the job or are they not really nesscary for day to day procedures? i’m really bad at math but i want to be an ultrasound tech!
@@angleblu7327 thank you i have very bad number confusion (dyslexia for numbers) i really don’t have great confidence in math. i get confused at basic arithmetic even subtraction sometimes but if i have a calculator ill be ok. i can do algebra and geometry the best.
@@endlessbubblebathyou need to be good at math and also have a understanding of physics. But what you need most is the desire to help people and to have thick skin. BTW, I had almost 30 years of experience doing cardiovascular ultrasound, including about 8 years of pediatric echocardiography. And to be quite frank, you need to know how to do the calculations by hand, and not just let the machine do the calculations. It helps you understand better what you are doing. Of course, I am old school and stated out when color Doppler and steerable Doppler was the newest thing. We had to do all of the measurements by hand and we saved the studies on VHS tapes. Now everything is digital and saved to a server making it so much easier to do your reports. As for it being a good career, I loved it. Especially when I got into doing pediatric echoes. And I had a lot of students do their clinical under me. I loved to teach and I always made my students to manual calculations and not use the machine. I also told them that if you don’t want to help people, find another job. And you have to be very thicker skin because most of the time we are meeting people under bad situations. People are scared,and so are their family members and they may sometimes take out their frustrations on you for no reason. I miss doing ultrasounds a lot, but I had some health issues and had to quit. The loss of my short term memory made it impossible to work. But good luck if you decide to become a sonographer, and make sure that where ever you do your clinic training they allow you to scan. I know many students that never get to scan and the sonographers make them do grunt work like fill gel bottles and change linens. Your best training should come from your clinical work, so make sure you get your money’s worth.
The ultrasounds techs in the Netherlands are also the people sharing the results and informing you of the implications. It's mind blowing to me that you have a doctor come and tell you the results. It seems really inefficient to me, as I am used to following along with the ultrasounda tech when she or he is performing the check. It is so informative to hear everything they tell you as they walk you through what they see themselves in that moment.
Yeah i don’t understand why they make it so complicated 😅 went in for a check up to my gallstones and the ultrasound technician just went ‘hmm nothing there anymore. Oh btw you have a cyst in your ovary.’ And i was like ‘do i… need to do anything with it?’ She just went ‘nope! It looks normal for now. Just keep monitoring it ❤’ She’s the best
@@ZoZoZoeee Blame the doctor's guild. They make it so that doctors are an artificially scarce resource at every turn, "For your protection and quality of care." Definitely not so doctors continue to make several times what they do in other countries, nope.
That would be practicing medicine without an license. Although most sonographers do know how to read the study, they are not all experts. Especially the younger ones.
@@TheCrazyMoparDude68 in my country the techs are qualified to share the results. In case of discrepancies, they refer you to a doctor and have it checked out, but otherwise no doctor is involved in the process.
US techs are some of the most busy, understaffed and overworked of all of the staff in my hospital… not sure if it’s like that in many other places, but I just wanted to say that we see and appreciate you for all that you do. Thanks for helping patients everyday. ❤
When I was 10-11 I had liver function high and I had to get an ultrasound. it kinds hurts because they did my whole body under my breasts. When I came from school after a couple months my mom had good news. We were worried about the results but the results were back to normal and good im so happy :) 😂😂
My ultrasound tech found my gallstones that had repeatedly caused chest pain that mimicked heart attack symptoms. Thanks to her, I no longer have the pain or the gallbladder !😊❤
Mi grandfather worked as a radiologist and later, when ultrasounds and ct scans started to be more common, he also did those. He can diagnose literally anything by just looking at ultrasounds, xrays or scans. He hasn’t missed once in my entire life, even if he is not a doctor. They know your results, 100% sure.
Me, at every prenatal scan for my 2 kids: *sweating over having drank enough water but also desperately trying not to pee my pants* Ultrasound tech: oh wow um... that's a little too full! EVERY TIME.
My ultrasound techs didn’t even give me the option to hear my sons heartbeat until I was over almost 30 weeks I think. Luckily at a first parents meeting my midwife let me hear it around 20+ weeks. She was so shocked and upset for me when she found out after all those appointments I never got to hear it. All my pregnant friends at the time had already been hearing their kids heartbeats for months
Unfortunately I knew that ultrasound techs do more then look for babies because in my seventh grade year I had fluid around my heart and the only available tech was a man and as a 12 year old girl that was scary, however it wasn't the end of the world and I thank those nurses and techs that helped me you guys save life's and inspire kids
I had a very bad experience at the same age with a female tech. Honestly a respectful man would have been better! She told me to remove my shirt and bra then said she would be right back. When the door opened she was standing there with my mother. I had not consented to anyone else being brought into the room. I turned my back and screamed. To this day I wish I had tried to get her fired for completely dismissing me as a human being. Kids deserve their modesty respected as much as adults.
@@k.elysium6819sorry for your bad experience. It has been my experience that female sonographers are the worst when it comes exposing female patients. I knew females that would just pull down a woman’s gown and do the exam with them fully exposed. When I called one on it, she said it was okay because she was a woman too. I always made sure to never expose a female completely while doing an exam. I would tell them to take off their shirts and bras and put on a gown backwards and let me know when they were ready. I never just walked in, I always knocked and waited for a response. I would then have them turn onto their left side and I would drape a towel over them covering their chest. Between the gown and the towel, I could keep them covered during the entire study.
i've had one tech actually ask me for a quick calculation because she forgot! next time i went in she said a friend scanned her later that day and she was pregnant 😂 pregnancy brain hits early (sure did with all mine!)
I had to get an ultrasound on my liver cuz I was taking a medicine which reacted to with my other medicine which was actually making my liver fail. I was little at the time so the technician took a picture of my kidney and printed it out for me as a gift for being good
We're ultrasound techs, so left is right and right is left! *I'm pretty sure I just heard my program director somewhere in the distance going off over "techs."*
"Tech" is usually short for "technician," which he views as not adequately representing our years of schooling. I think my class got him to be okay with "technologist," but he always used to say, "We are NOT technicians, we are SONOGRAPHERS!"
@@goldenwing5960I agree with him. When I first started 30 or so years ago, we were all called techs. I don’t mind too much at first, but after awhile it did seem as though many of our fellow medical professionals didn’t think we did as much as we did. They thought that we just went in and the machine did all of the work, which today it does a lot more than when I started. I remember a nurse saying that I didn’t know what I was looking at and just taking pictures. Of course I had to inform her that she was wrong and that I do indeed know ant I am looking at and it is so just some pictures. It was right about then that I started to embrace the term sonographer. I even had the department make up new lab coats with Cardiac Sonographer and Vascular Sonographer on the breast.
Ultrasound techs always started my ultrassounds with "we cannot tell you anything, you need to wait for your midwife's appointment to know your results" but always end up with a "look at this baby's healthy heartbeat!" Lol thank God for ultrasound techs that put our minds at ease!
Sometimes you can get people to answer question by asking the right question in the right way. Ask the question in away that could solicit a vague and or opinion answer.
One day I just randomly started having pain in my penis. It was like a deep aching pain. So I go get it looked at at the doc and they schedule me for an ultrasound. The tech was a young woman. What you might imagine would happen, did indeed happen. It’s virtually impossible to avoid with this particular procedure but she was super professional about it, assured me it’s happened a thousand times, and was able to keep a friendly and non-awkward demeanor. Definitely helped me relax and a particular situation was able to resolve itself.
I remember they told me to drink a ton of water before my scan, I was at the brink of bursting. She told me to empty my bladder, I did and she told me it was still too full. I ended up peeing 3 times before she could actually do the scan... Idk why I had to keep my bladder so full just to pee it all out 😂
I am an Ultrasonic technician but the application is done on piping and equipment for a refinery. It is a different frequency and setup because of the obvious. The velocity is different with everything cancer cells and mild steel have 2 completely different velocities. It is pretty cool when you understand how sound actually works.
Whenever I got an ultrasound (for instance during pregnancy but not only) my doctor did it and they always comment immediately. I'm from Europe and my obgyn always was very nice and printed a lot of pics after each appointment. 😊
I got my first ultrasound done 2 months ago, absolutely nervous and unsure of how it worked. Had no idea you have to push down THAT HARD into my torso it hurt so badly 😭
I'm an 18 female and during an unltrasound check at the ER, the man that did my ultrasound panicked and called in 2 doctors who explained my right ovarie was missing. I was so dopped up from my meds beforehand so I had to have the guy explain everything to me a second time when I sobered up💀💕 You gotta love the patience an ultrasound person has
It was interesting, because I actually had to get an ultrasound once based off the symptoms I was describing to my doctor over the phone. He sent me to an urgent care because he couldn’t see me that day that Dr felt based off the symptoms I was describing that I had a blood clot and he was afraid I was going to die so he sends me over to this radiology place and they do an ultrasound and when I say they were thorough, I mean, let me put it this way, the last time a woman was that thorough with my body, I had bought her dinner first, and then made her breakfast in the morning if you catch my drift lol. Turns out I didn’t have a blood clot. Turns out they have no idea what it was and the symptoms ended up resolving themselves, but that was still a very interesting experience for me😂
As I got an ultrasound looking for abnormalities, I told her essentially that I am struggling with a variety of symptoms. If she has any info she can offer or “guesses” or suggestions, I would love to hear them. But if she is required to just send it back to the dr without speaking about it, I get that as well. She was nice enough to walk me through what she was looking for and looking at. She prefaced everything with “I’m not your doctor, but _”. Unfortunately, she didn’t find anything. But she gave me some avenues to look into that she’s heard of and sent it to the dr to double check. Best technician experience ever imo. I get when you can’t say anything, but even a hint hint wink wink would be nice on things that might help. Like, if you notice a bladder cyst, you might say “I have to send this on to your doctor for diagnosis, but there may be some useful information here for them! I can’t make a diagnosis, but I don’t believe your cranberry juice is helping. Try hydrating with water instead until you get next steps.” Or even just “I can’t make a diagnosis as a tech but do have some good information to send to your doctor. I’ll let them know to follow up with you on a treatment plan” which says essentially that you see the problem. That I don’t need to schedule 10 more drs appointments trying to find what’s causing my discomfort. That I can take a breath and just wait. AND that if I don’t get a call back from a neglectful dr, it’s worth chasing them down to look at the results.
Bless the ultrasound tech that helped a doctor surgically remove my nexplanon that got lost in my arm i am forever grateful My nerve damage is permanent and so is my appreciation that the reason is removed
I had to have an ultrasound when I discovered multiple lumps in my neck. My mum had thyroid cancer at the same age so I already knew. I remember the day so well. The look on their faces and people coming into the room including the doctor. They spent a long time scanning my neck. The energy in the room was really obvious. I didn’t need them to tell me I had cancer, I already knew. 😢
after a scan i told my husband, she kept going over and over at the same spot… i’m not sure why. welp, my ovarian cyst has been removed so yeah now i know why.
Years ago my ultrasound tech was marking an ovary and tube that had been removed probably 4 years prior. When I asked she said maybe it grew back! Don’t fault my tech she knew I was in for a battle. I said I need to call my doctor fast right. She said yes please! Couple surgeries later it was all good. I am so thankful for ultrasound techs!
That bladder one hits home. When my wife was pregnant and impatiently waiting for an ultrasound she asked if they could hurry because she had to use restroom. That's first thing ultrasound tech said. Your bladder is empty.
That is about the same amount I spent doing echoes and vascular. I also did pediatric echocardiography for about 8 years. I miss pediatric echoes the most, and vascular the least. I absolutely hated doing segmental BPs.
Not sure if you are in the US, but if you are don’t give up. There are a lot of programs across the country for ultrasound, many that are two year programs. No need to waste money on a four year program, it doesn’t really mean anything to employers.
I agree! There’s a shortage of techs at least in the cardiovascular realm. I completed an associate degree and had no trouble getting a job right out of school. Once you have 4-5 years of working experience then NO ONE cares about your degree anyway as far as employers go.
Went in for an ultrasound and did the prep work, made sure my bladder was full (pro tip, schedule it in the morning and just try not to pee when you get up to get ready), and the tech was like "wow your bladder is huge, but that makes my job so much easier!" And then I was like "I know you can't tell me anything about the scan result wise, but can you point out where my ovaries are? I've been told I have pcos but I'm not sure what that looks like on my scan" and she points them out and goes "girl you got some cute ovaries! I don't know if they're working right but they're cute!" 😂😂😂 highlight of the experience
It was a huge wake up call when I went to the hospital and them thinking I had appendicitis which lead to them doing an ultrasound on me… I thought that was only for my mom when she has a baby 😂.
The the radiologist who performed the ultrasound and HIDA scan on my gallbladder told me it was completely dead and unresponsive, and that she wasn't supposed to tell me that, but it was fine because of the Demerol. I'm glad she told me, because 11 years later I can't remember what anyone else (including my surgeon) told me about my status during that hospital stay 😆
I think you are the ultrasound technician who monitored my babies in Phoenix. If you are, my twins were little MMA fighters on the ultrasound and yes it was only practice for them 😂😂
This actually felt really crappy to watch as a person with endometriosis and the treatment I’ve had in the past from ultrasounds finding 3 inch cysts all in one ovary. The one I kept saying was hurting for months and the ultrasound tech brushed me and my concerns off which pushed my suffering and ended with two rupturing and a trip to the ER. 😅
For my 1st ultrasound the 1st thing my tech said was “holy crap!” I thought she was going to tell me I was having at least triplets. She was only reacting to how full my bladder was 🙃
An ultrasound tech changed my life! She’s the only one on staff for, like, eight different practices *and* the hospital; but she scanned me for nearly a year to help find my adenomyosis 🥹🥲 One of the many unsung heroes in medicine ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
I distinctly remember having an x-ray on my back. after the imaging the radiologist came in instead of the tech. Asked me how I was feeling, if I had any pain, and told me to call my doctor right away. Yea, it wasn't good... But I'm still here😊
When I was around 5, I had to get an ultrasound at a urologist so they could figure out why I kept getting kidney infections as soon as my prior infection was resolved. Turns out it wasn't very possible for a 5 yo to drink enough water to flush out THREE kidneys fast enough to not get infections. I had to switch up my liquid intake to something that goes through the system more efficiently, and I haven't had any kidney issues since.
My ultrasound tech confirmed my ectopic pregnancy last year(blood work for weeks before that indicated that it was likely).. she stated “this isn’t how I wanted to start my day”…..👍🏼 me either ma’am. Thanks.
2 ultrasound techs with my last pregnancy told me my bladder was full & sent me off to the bathroom after i told them it wasn’t, after my doctor took a look at results she let the techs know it was a big ass cyst and not a full bladder 🤣
I spent about 30 years doing ultrasound. With about 20 years doing adult cardiovascular ultrasound and finishing my career doing pediatric echoes for the last 8 years or so. Never once was I called a nurse, I was always called doctor.
It's a bit funny for me, because my country doesn't have ultrasound techs. Ultrasounds are performed by a doctors and results come on the spot. But yeah. Lots of people think ultrasounds are just for pregnancies 🙄 I've had dozens and they were almost always to diagnose synovitis or to guide an intra-articular injection. A few to check glands. Never babies.
I just had a thyroid ultrasound last week. No change from previous scans. Maybe the problem is in the pituitary. On the bright side, brain surgery through the nose may leave less of a visible scar than neck surgery.
The States are so weird, in my country unless you finished residency and passed your specialty exam + in some specialties it’s also needed to take courses to get competency for it, you can’t do ultrasounds…
We're ultrasound techs and definitely know your results
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That's seriously got to be the most difficult part of the job. And honestly it's the thing I'm most worried about after I finish clinicals and have to do this in the wild, especially in OB 😞
Yup. I went in for a leg ultrasound and Tech told me to get comfortable and call my family cause I was gonna be here for a while.
I had a DVT stay in the hospital for nine days
@@TheMuirite yeah. A couple of months ago I went to my anatomy scan and my tech stopped and was like I'll be back in a few I'm going to have the doctor look over these and came back and told me she needed to do transvaginal ultrasound because I had plecenta previa and then afterwards I was told also placenta percreta
My MRI tech definitely saw my fucked up tumor brain on my first scan idk how he held a straight face.
I flat out told the man that did the ultrasound on my dead kidney “I know you know what you’re looking at, can you just tell me if I’m screwed or not?” And he leaned in and said “I’m not supposed to say anything, but it’s looking like your kidney might be gone for good.” And then a few seconds later he goes “But shhhh, ultrasound techs don’t know how to read the scans.” And then winked at me 🤣🤣 and that was the day I found out I only have one working kidney lol
Mine told me she wasn't allowed to say where my placenta is. Like tf? She told me, but said not to tell...
@@itsthatonechickagaincallth7843 I don’t understand why these people pay so much for schooling just to be told “you can’t tell people what you know about the field you paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to be an expert in” 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤣🤣
@Maddyfish
Because techs are NOT trained in radiology to read images for diagnosis. Only the doctor can read comprehensively and diagnose. It's a clinical knowledge and liability issue.
The techs do have experience to know what they're looking at and if something is abnormal looking enough to take additional images or consult the provider.
Techs have a 2 year associate's degree.
Maddy, what's so much schooling mean?
@@kasa9884 well when you have two kidneys for instance and one of them is nice and plump and looks like exactly how it’s supposed to but the other one looks like a shriveled up testicle, I think at that point they should be allowed to tell you it doesn’t look good🤣🤣🤣
My ultrasound tech found the cysts that my doctor denied seeing months prior on other scans. Got my diagnosis cause of her and am on the road to managing my pain 😊
Did you report the doctor??
@@himenyx153 I did. He retired during the 6 month break between when he looked at my charts and when they were reevaluated. I left for college less than a month after my diagnosis so legal action was too expensive and time consuming on my end.
@@Stormy_MeadowsI am finding that out. I’m now on regular monitoring and on a list to get the surgery I need to hopefully eliminate pain in my future! It’s about taking on each trial one day at a time.
I had the opposite
A tech who spotted the cysts on my ovary and declared them “no big deal”-
MY OVARY WAS MORE CUST THAN OVARY GIRL WHAT
I haven't had a helpful ultrasound tech outside of AZ
The only thing scarier than a quiet ultrsound tech that keeps scanning the same place over and over, is one that abruptly gets up and gets the doctor.
I started crying during an ultrasound because she was really quiet and kept going over the same places for what felt like FOREVER. Then she spent an eternity typing before she FINALLY said the word "benign." I was like bitch I'VE BEEN LIVING A CANCER DRAMA IN MY HEAD FOR LIKE A HALF HOUR.
Oof I had one of those. Turned out to be my third ovarian cyst, but this one was combined with a fibroid. She never said a word, just got up and got the doctor.
Had this same thing happen to me with an ectopic pregnancy
I had both from the tech in the ER. The news was bad.
Literally had an ultrasound for a blood clot and for breast screening and the moment when they say “I’m calling the radiologist/doctor before you leave” if when you start panickinf
My ultrasound tech asked "so, it's your left side? Where your pain is?" And i was like 👀 yeah, but i didn't tell you that. Turns out I had a pretty large ovarian cyst on the left side.
Wouldn't the Dr refer you for ultrasound for left side abdominal pain? Like a service order, but for a person?
@@skachor I saw the order and it just said "abdominal pain", no specifics. But I have had ones that are specific. Like when I had kidney stones it said "left flank pain."
I have one on my right side right now, may I ask how you got it removed?
@@totka8259I had a total of 21 ovarian cysts, 10 on one side and 11 on another, never got them removed, she said I would basically bleed them out with my period. I bled for like 15 days straight, then had VERY heavy periods for the next three months, it's only until now that my period is stabilizing again back to my normal flow. We theorized that I got mine due to an STD that I didn't know I had so I didn't get it treated for MONTHSSSS until I started to feel pelvic pain and VERY painful sexual intercourse so it also depends on the reason why you got them in the first place.
Same. Mine was on the right.
My sister walked in as I was watching this and says, “Is that a nurse?” The irony is heavy 😂
Basically, anyone in scrubs is automatically thought to be a nurse😂
@@chantelbarcomb1766or a doctor 😊
Honestly, I wish they did tell us what they found.
I was scanned, they found huge cysts on my ovaries, doctor never fucking told me because its not clinically relevant, then several years later one of them ruptures and it would have been SUPER helpful if at least one person told me they were cysts instead of having to wait another 2 years for an outpatient appointment with a gyno. 😒
Ugh I’m so sorry. Ruptured cyst was almost as painful as labor imo. Cyst pain was actually worse for me in some ways. I think that’s pretty relevant info, especially when a cyst ruptures and you’re in 10/10 pain and don’t know what’s going on
I had the opposite happen. My ultrasound tech was looking at my kidneys and found huge cysts on my ovaries so she slotted me in again for another appointment to confirm and then told me there and then about my results, even though they said they weren’t really supposed to they wanted me to have all the info. The ultrasound techs were the most supportive and understanding of my pain the whole time whereas the doctors were quite dismissive at times, I’m so grateful for them and now I’ve had surgery and am relatively pain free because of it.
then take it up with government so they can change regulations and allow them to
I’ve had them tell me about a cyst and they still didn’t do anything so hard to say what the other outcome would’ve looked like
@tiannagames Yeah, I get that there's nothing to be done about them, but if I had've known I had one, when it burst I could've told the medical team and avoided several hours of them running around not knowing wtf to do.
Hell, it took nearly 4 hours to even get pain relief.
I had an amazing tech for my 20 week scan with my daughter. She could tell how anxious I was, so she leaned in and whispered, “I’m not supposed to tell you this, but between you and me, everything is looking perfect. That’s a healthy baby on the screen.” It was perfect because my appointment with the actual doc wasn’t for 2 more weeks. Saved me so much undue stress.
I went in for an ultrasound suspecting gallstones and the tech was all "I'm not supposed to say what I see but if there was a gallbladder full of stones, this is what it would look like." And flipped the screen around. Just an organ full of gravel.
omg i just found out i have gaklstones how do i get rid of it?
That’s a great way to word it lol
@@endlessbubblebathSurgery.
Does anyone know how to get rid of gallstones? It would be really nice 😊
@@ichbinschlechtinclashroyal6833Yes. You have a surgery where they remove your gallbladder. It's pretty much useless and non-salvageable by the time it is full of stones. The body has gotten used to not using it.
The radiology tech who did my spec CT gave me my diagnosis because she knew the doctor wasn't looking at my hips, only my spine, but my limited mobility was coming from a deviation in my pelvis.
The doctor talked about slight compression in my lumbar spine and didn't mention my deviated pelvis.
The tech saved me another 6 months of fruitless diagnosis seeking.
That was a shit doctor then, the radiologist has to look at every slice and make appropriate comments on everything, not just what the immediate area of concern is.
@opulentpieyoga9079 the doctor made it very clear that he felt like I was wasting his time. My pain and the fact that I couldn't properly walk or sit down didn't seem like any kind of concern to him.
I had a burst tube due to ectopic pregnancy and my ultrasound tech told me she had two ectopics while she was scanning me to check the tube/bleeding. I was so grateful to her for sharing. It made me feel that there was life/good things on the other side of my pain and hardship. ❤
There are times that ultrasound techs can give things away. When the tech runs to get the doctor, it’s usually not very good news.
It really stinks when they call other people into the room to gawk at my anatomy
@@RJones-tn5vg yeah I just say that I’m not comfortable with other people in the room unless absolutely necessary and that usually stops that from happening.. and if they do I start talking about how uncomfortable this is making me at the moment and that makes everyone feel awkward so they leave :)
@@RJones-tn5vgsometimes the other sonographer is helping them get better images or understand what they're looking at. We write up the reports that the doctor signs off on.
Usually yeah. Sometimes it's a false alarm
@@RJones-tn5vg it's helpful to have others scan as well to make sure we're getting the best images. Sometimes it isn't even a crazy pathology, but just having a difficult time getting the images.
Bladder fullness. My first ultrasound I drank two 16oz water bottles because that’s what they told me. “Your bladder isn’t full enough I can’t see anything”, I drank another 16oz. Second ultrasound I drank MY ENTIRE 52oz water bottle and I wanted to die because it hurt and she kept pressing on it saying “wow you drank a lot huh” YES NOW HURRY UP
Too relatable… wasn’t aware I had to have a full bladder and even though I chugged so much water my bladder wasn’t filling! had to reschedule and the next time I made sure I had a full bladder…every second I was in there felt like hours! 😂
so true they thought my appendix had burst and they didn’t let me drink water for the test so it was even worse. they had to give me like 5 bags of fluids and then later had the AUDACITY to write in my report that my bladder was “enlarged” HUH I WONDER WHY-
this EXACT thing happened to me but then the lady told me to pee because my bladder pushed away my uterus and she couldn't see shit 😭
I drank so much with my first and had to pee so bad it hurt, laid on the table for 5 seconds then she says "I need you to empty your bladder" I never drank extra for an ultrasound again and always did fine
@@BickyToyashe told me next time don’t drink the recommended amount lol. Apparently if you drink water/ stay hydrated pretty consistently, you should be fine
Ultrasound techs rock! When I had blood clots that almost took me out of here, I asked the tech, “ Is there anything wrong?” She pushed me back on the cot and said firmly but with great love, “ Lay back and please please do not move.” She then SPRINTED from the room, yelling for a doctor right away! I had 7 clots ! Her quick reaction may have saved my life. Thank you for all you do!!
I certainly hope your story isn’t true. Any sonographer that would react that way needs to be fired. And this is coming from a sonographer with almost 30 years of cardiovascular ultrasound. When you see something unusual or life threatening, you make sure you don’t show it on your face and find an excuse to leave the room to contact the doctor. Or you just finish up,the study and contact the reading doctor right away.
@@TheCrazyMoparDude68
What you're saying could cause a relative of your patient to hunt you down and take you out if your silence leads to the patient dying, or being seriously incapacitated. You may want to increase the payout on your life insurance policy.
Actually the last Ultrasound Tech I had told me exactly what she saw and was so smart, I trusted her more than my dumb@ss doctor. 😂
My brother had a defect on his kidney. Luckily the ultrasound tech was very thorough when my stepmom was pregnant. He discovered that small anomaly and made sure it was taken seriously. That technician's good work the reason my little brother is healthy and living a normal life, I'm thankful.
On another note, my brother's kidney doesn't work on full capacity and had the ureter reconnected on the lower part of the kidney, so it does look weird. A couple ultrasound techs have been weirded out when they are examining him.
When I was pregnant, there was student once for one of my ultrasounds and after asking if I was comfortable with a student and all and the formalities, she put the wand on my belly and said “oh, your bladder is very full” in a happy tone and I giggled so hard at it lol 😂
I didn't even know there was such a thing as an ultrasound tech, here in Germany ultrasounds are usually done by the doctors themselves 😅
Our doctors believe in delegation.
And then making you wait two weeks to find out., well that was before you could check your results on an app as soon as they came in.
I have a large calcified splenic cyst, and every time I need to get an ultrasound for something unrelated, I make sure to tell the techs, because I know they don’t get to see those all the time.
This is so considerate 😂❤❤
Do they call their coworkers in to take a look as well? "Hey, take a look at this. It's a calcified splenic cyst!" "A what-, never mind, I wanna see"
I just decided yesterday that i want to go into this field! I’m excited and I hope to start classes to finish prerequisites in the fall
Not sure which field you are planning to go into, but if you are just looking at doing echoes or vascular I would skip the 4 year schools and just go to a two year school that teaches either. It is a lot less expensive and you can get out and start making some good money sooner. I have only met one sonographer that went the 4 year route that remotely impressed me. The others didn’t know much but felt superior nonetheless. The best students,and eventually sonographers, that I ever had all went to two year programs. And in many cases, if you learn how to do echoes (cardiac ultrasound) many places will teach you vascular. Most cardiology departments and cardiology clinics do bother echoes and vascular ultrasound.
@@TheCrazyMoparDude68 that’s what i plan on doing
I wish ultrasound techs were allowed to report THEIR findings (cysts doctors deny, etc) and then say, these were my findings and we will see if the doctor agrees...doctors can be so lazy and not address findings THEY feel aren't relevant ...
This, THIS!!! Yes, please.
Its kind of like me being a medical assistant, I know how to read ECGs but can’t tell the patients the results because its out of my scope of practice
And again, that's ridiculous. More pieces of information, not less. Just with the caveat that it may not be telling the full story or whatever @@elizadawne3896
i’m studying right now to be an ultrasound tech and people definitely think it’s all about babies. i personally am really interested in the heart!
just got that one done...thankfully, this one did not have the sound on...when you hear your own heart beating as you are getting your ultrasound it is kind of scary!
do you have to know math skills for the job or are they not really nesscary for day to day procedures? i’m really bad at math but i want to be an ultrasound tech!
@@endlessbubblebathyou have to know basic math, although on the job the machine does calculations for you. I’m an OBGYN nurse 👋
@@angleblu7327 thank you i have very bad number confusion (dyslexia for numbers) i really don’t have great confidence in math. i get confused at basic arithmetic even subtraction sometimes but if i have a calculator ill be ok. i can do algebra and geometry the best.
@@endlessbubblebathyou need to be good at math and also have a understanding of physics. But what you need most is the desire to help people and to have thick skin. BTW, I had almost 30 years of experience doing cardiovascular ultrasound, including about 8 years of pediatric echocardiography. And to be quite frank, you need to know how to do the calculations by hand, and not just let the machine do the calculations. It helps you understand better what you are doing. Of course, I am old school and stated out when color Doppler and steerable Doppler was the newest thing. We had to do all of the measurements by hand and we saved the studies on VHS tapes. Now everything is digital and saved to a server making it so much easier to do your reports.
As for it being a good career, I loved it. Especially when I got into doing pediatric echoes. And I had a lot of students do their clinical under me. I loved to teach and I always made my students to manual calculations and not use the machine. I also told them that if you don’t want to help people, find another job. And you have to be very thicker skin because most of the time we are meeting people under bad situations. People are scared,and so are their family members and they may sometimes take out their frustrations on you for no reason. I miss doing ultrasounds a lot, but I had some health issues and had to quit. The loss of my short term memory made it impossible to work. But good luck if you decide to become a sonographer, and make sure that where ever you do your clinic training they allow you to scan. I know many students that never get to scan and the sonographers make them do grunt work like fill gel bottles and change linens. Your best training should come from your clinical work, so make sure you get your money’s worth.
The ultrasounds techs in the Netherlands are also the people sharing the results and informing you of the implications. It's mind blowing to me that you have a doctor come and tell you the results. It seems really inefficient to me, as I am used to following along with the ultrasounda tech when she or he is performing the check. It is so informative to hear everything they tell you as they walk you through what they see themselves in that moment.
Yeah i don’t understand why they make it so complicated 😅 went in for a check up to my gallstones and the ultrasound technician just went ‘hmm nothing there anymore. Oh btw you have a cyst in your ovary.’ And i was like ‘do i… need to do anything with it?’ She just went ‘nope! It looks normal for now. Just keep monitoring it ❤’
She’s the best
@@ZoZoZoeee Blame the doctor's guild. They make it so that doctors are an artificially scarce resource at every turn, "For your protection and quality of care." Definitely not so doctors continue to make several times what they do in other countries, nope.
@@AnAngryRedGummyBearin this case, yeah.
That would be practicing medicine without an license. Although most sonographers do know how to read the study, they are not all experts. Especially the younger ones.
@@TheCrazyMoparDude68 in my country the techs are qualified to share the results. In case of discrepancies, they refer you to a doctor and have it checked out, but otherwise no doctor is involved in the process.
US techs are some of the most busy, understaffed and overworked of all of the staff in my hospital… not sure if it’s like that in many other places, but I just wanted to say that we see and appreciate you for all that you do. Thanks for helping patients everyday. ❤
I’d love to be an ultrasound tech but my face gives *everything* away whether I like it or not 😂
that would be me as well.
"We're ultrasound techs... and we can only talk with a vocal fry"
Btw, men speak with vocal fry more often than women
Getting ultrasound has always been so nice and relaxing for me. The dim and warm rooms and the machine sounds.
When I was 10-11 I had liver function high and I had to get an ultrasound. it kinds hurts because they did my whole body under my breasts. When I came from school after a couple months my mom had good news. We were worried about the results but the results were back to normal and good im so happy :) 😂😂
My ultrasound tech found my gallstones that had repeatedly caused chest pain that mimicked heart attack symptoms. Thanks to her, I no longer have the pain or the gallbladder !😊❤
Love my tech, when I was 36 weeks I made a comment like "awe wonder if she'll look like me or dad" and gave me a free 3d tech for a minute or two
Mi grandfather worked as a radiologist and later, when ultrasounds and ct scans started to be more common, he also did those. He can diagnose literally anything by just looking at ultrasounds, xrays or scans. He hasn’t missed once in my entire life, even if he is not a doctor. They know your results, 100% sure.
A radiologist is a doctor.
i’m gonna be an ultrasound or mri tech in the future! super excited
Do ultrasound.
Me, at every prenatal scan for my 2 kids: *sweating over having drank enough water but also desperately trying not to pee my pants*
Ultrasound tech: oh wow um... that's a little too full!
EVERY TIME.
My ultrasound techs didn’t even give me the option to hear my sons heartbeat until I was over almost 30 weeks I think. Luckily at a first parents meeting my midwife let me hear it around 20+ weeks. She was so shocked and upset for me when she found out after all those appointments I never got to hear it. All my pregnant friends at the time had already been hearing their kids heartbeats for months
I never heard the heartbeat at any of my ultrasounds for my 2 kids. Only by doppler at OBGYN appointments.
It’s because we don’t want to use Doppler due to ALARA principles. We want baby to be safe first priority over entertainment.
Yea this isn't the slight you think it is
The last one made me so relieved
This is absolutely hilarious. This video reminded me that I needed to make an appointment for an ultrasound 😂😂 got off CZcams and made it right away
Unfortunately I knew that ultrasound techs do more then look for babies because in my seventh grade year I had fluid around my heart and the only available tech was a man and as a 12 year old girl that was scary, however it wasn't the end of the world and I thank those nurses and techs that helped me you guys save life's and inspire kids
I had a very bad experience at the same age with a female tech. Honestly a respectful man would have been better! She told me to remove my shirt and bra then said she would be right back. When the door opened she was standing there with my mother. I had not consented to anyone else being brought into the room. I turned my back and screamed. To this day I wish I had tried to get her fired for completely dismissing me as a human being. Kids deserve their modesty respected as much as adults.
@@k.elysium6819sorry for your bad experience. It has been my experience that female sonographers are the worst when it comes exposing female patients. I knew females that would just pull down a woman’s gown and do the exam with them fully exposed. When I called one on it, she said it was okay because she was a woman too. I always made sure to never expose a female completely while doing an exam. I would tell them to take off their shirts and bras and put on a gown backwards and let me know when they were ready. I never just walked in, I always knocked and waited for a response. I would then have them turn onto their left side and I would drape a towel over them covering their chest. Between the gown and the towel, I could keep them covered during the entire study.
i've had one tech actually ask me for a quick calculation because she forgot! next time i went in she said a friend scanned her later that day and she was pregnant 😂 pregnancy brain hits early (sure did with all mine!)
I had to get an ultrasound on my liver cuz I was taking a medicine which reacted to with my other medicine which was actually making my liver fail. I was little at the time so the technician took a picture of my kidney and printed it out for me as a gift for being good
you were so good for your first liver ultrasound, here’s a photo of your kidney!
Aww lol
We're ultrasound techs, so left is right and right is left!
*I'm pretty sure I just heard my program director somewhere in the distance going off over "techs."*
Not supposed to say tech? What should they be called?
"Tech" is usually short for "technician," which he views as not adequately representing our years of schooling. I think my class got him to be okay with "technologist," but he always used to say, "We are NOT technicians, we are SONOGRAPHERS!"
@@goldenwing5960I agree with him. When I first started 30 or so years ago, we were all called techs. I don’t mind too much at first, but after awhile it did seem as though many of our fellow medical professionals didn’t think we did as much as we did. They thought that we just went in and the machine did all of the work, which today it does a lot more than when I started. I remember a nurse saying that I didn’t know what I was looking at and just taking pictures. Of course I had to inform her that she was wrong and that I do indeed know ant I am looking at and it is so just some pictures. It was right about then that I started to embrace the term sonographer. I even had the department make up new lab coats with Cardiac Sonographer and Vascular Sonographer on the breast.
Ultrasound techs always started my ultrassounds with "we cannot tell you anything, you need to wait for your midwife's appointment to know your results" but always end up with a "look at this baby's healthy heartbeat!" Lol thank God for ultrasound techs that put our minds at ease!
🥹🫶🏻🙏🏼
Sometimes you can get people to answer question by asking the right question in the right way. Ask the question in away that could solicit a vague and or opinion answer.
One day I just randomly started having pain in my penis. It was like a deep aching pain. So I go get it looked at at the doc and they schedule me for an ultrasound. The tech was a young woman. What you might imagine would happen, did indeed happen. It’s virtually impossible to avoid with this particular procedure but she was super professional about it, assured me it’s happened a thousand times, and was able to keep a friendly and non-awkward demeanor. Definitely helped me relax and a particular situation was able to resolve itself.
I remember they told me to drink a ton of water before my scan, I was at the brink of bursting. She told me to empty my bladder, I did and she told me it was still too full. I ended up peeing 3 times before she could actually do the scan... Idk why I had to keep my bladder so full just to pee it all out 😂
It's easier to empty a full bladder than fill an empty bladder
I swear, I haven't eaten for six hours. Not my fault you can't find my gall bladder.
I am an Ultrasonic technician but the application is done on piping and equipment for a refinery. It is a different frequency and setup because of the obvious. The velocity is different with everything cancer cells and mild steel have 2 completely different velocities. It is pretty cool when you understand how sound actually works.
Whenever I got an ultrasound (for instance during pregnancy but not only) my doctor did it and they always comment immediately. I'm from Europe and my obgyn always was very nice and printed a lot of pics after each appointment. 😊
I got my first ultrasound done 2 months ago, absolutely nervous and unsure of how it worked. Had no idea you have to push down THAT HARD into my torso it hurt so badly 😭
The ultrasound tech had a hard time keeping her straight face when she saw my gallbladder.
I didnt know how many technicians worked in a hospital before becoming one myself 😂
I'm an 18 female and during an unltrasound check at the ER, the man that did my ultrasound panicked and called in 2 doctors who explained my right ovarie was missing. I was so dopped up from my meds beforehand so I had to have the guy explain everything to me a second time when I sobered up💀💕 You gotta love the patience an ultrasound person has
We are IT techs and we love asking customers "Did you turn it off and on again?" 😂
An ultrasound tech figured out that my appendix decided to try and relocate to a new part of my body.
It was interesting, because I actually had to get an ultrasound once based off the symptoms I was describing to my doctor over the phone. He sent me to an urgent care because he couldn’t see me that day that Dr felt based off the symptoms I was describing that I had a blood clot and he was afraid I was going to die so he sends me over to this radiology place and they do an ultrasound and when I say they were thorough, I mean, let me put it this way, the last time a woman was that thorough with my body, I had bought her dinner first, and then made her breakfast in the morning if you catch my drift lol. Turns out I didn’t have a blood clot. Turns out they have no idea what it was and the symptoms ended up resolving themselves, but that was still a very interesting experience for me😂
As I got an ultrasound looking for abnormalities, I told her essentially that I am struggling with a variety of symptoms. If she has any info she can offer or “guesses” or suggestions, I would love to hear them. But if she is required to just send it back to the dr without speaking about it, I get that as well. She was nice enough to walk me through what she was looking for and looking at. She prefaced everything with “I’m not your doctor, but _”. Unfortunately, she didn’t find anything. But she gave me some avenues to look into that she’s heard of and sent it to the dr to double check. Best technician experience ever imo. I get when you can’t say anything, but even a hint hint wink wink would be nice on things that might help. Like, if you notice a bladder cyst, you might say “I have to send this on to your doctor for diagnosis, but there may be some useful information here for them! I can’t make a diagnosis, but I don’t believe your cranberry juice is helping. Try hydrating with water instead until you get next steps.” Or even just “I can’t make a diagnosis as a tech but do have some good information to send to your doctor. I’ll let them know to follow up with you on a treatment plan” which says essentially that you see the problem. That I don’t need to schedule 10 more drs appointments trying to find what’s causing my discomfort. That I can take a breath and just wait. AND that if I don’t get a call back from a neglectful dr, it’s worth chasing them down to look at the results.
Best part about having an ER nurse in the family is asking if we need to go to the ER for something or we can go to our PCP😂😂😂
Bless the ultrasound tech that helped a doctor surgically remove my nexplanon that got lost in my arm i am forever grateful
My nerve damage is permanent and so is my appreciation that the reason is removed
I had to have an ultrasound when I discovered multiple lumps in my neck. My mum had thyroid cancer at the same age so I already knew. I remember the day so well. The look on their faces and people coming into the room including the doctor. They spent a long time scanning my neck. The energy in the room was really obvious. I didn’t need them to tell me I had cancer, I already knew. 😢
I had a ultrasound to scan for possible breast cancer and the ultrasound tech was super nice
For a second I was gonna ask how yall are good at gambling and then I realized 😂
I don’t get it
@@bostontaylor8734they are good at keeping a straight face
@@bostontaylor8734she’s talking about gambling on the gender
@@bostontaylor8734 They restrain their facial expressions while doing their job. This gives them a very effective poker face.
after a scan i told my husband, she kept going over and over at the same spot… i’m not sure why.
welp, my ovarian cyst has been removed so yeah now i know why.
Years ago my ultrasound tech was marking an ovary and tube that had been removed probably 4 years prior. When I asked she said maybe it grew back! Don’t fault my tech she knew I was in for a battle. I said I need to call my doctor fast right. She said yes please! Couple surgeries later it was all good. I am so thankful for ultrasound techs!
That bladder one hits home. When my wife was pregnant and impatiently waiting for an ultrasound she asked if they could hurry because she had to use restroom. That's first thing ultrasound tech said. Your bladder is empty.
I was an echo tech for 28 yrs. retired now but i sure miss doing heart & vascular ultrasounds
That is about the same amount I spent doing echoes and vascular. I also did pediatric echocardiography for about 8 years. I miss pediatric echoes the most, and vascular the least. I absolutely hated doing segmental BPs.
Yes! When i was young i got an ultrasound and people were concerwnwd that i was pregnant, i was just having stomach issues 😣
The first one I went to I misheard my doctor and drank 70 oz of water and my bladder was so full she had to get me to go to the washroom beforehand 😅
I've always wanted to be an ultrasound tech but to get into the program it's like 15 seats per 100+ applicants::(
Not sure if you are in the US, but if you are don’t give up. There are a lot of programs across the country for ultrasound, many that are two year programs. No need to waste money on a four year program, it doesn’t really mean anything to employers.
I agree! There’s a shortage of techs at least in the cardiovascular realm. I completed an associate degree and had no trouble getting a job right out of school. Once you have 4-5 years of working experience then NO ONE cares about your degree anyway as far as employers go.
Went in for an ultrasound and did the prep work, made sure my bladder was full (pro tip, schedule it in the morning and just try not to pee when you get up to get ready), and the tech was like "wow your bladder is huge, but that makes my job so much easier!" And then I was like "I know you can't tell me anything about the scan result wise, but can you point out where my ovaries are? I've been told I have pcos but I'm not sure what that looks like on my scan" and she points them out and goes "girl you got some cute ovaries! I don't know if they're working right but they're cute!" 😂😂😂 highlight of the experience
It was a huge wake up call when I went to the hospital and them thinking I had appendicitis which lead to them doing an ultrasound on me… I thought that was only for my mom when she has a baby 😂.
They’re ultrasound techs, they’ll just prod you with the trans ultrasound probe looking for the second ovary you never had… every damn time.
The the radiologist who performed the ultrasound and HIDA scan on my gallbladder told me it was completely dead and unresponsive, and that she wasn't supposed to tell me that, but it was fine because of the Demerol.
I'm glad she told me, because 11 years later I can't remember what anyone else (including my surgeon) told me about my status during that hospital stay 😆
The ultrasound techs kept pressing down on my cyst to take the pictures and I was trying not to SCREAM 😭
i can’t even 💀💀 imagine want to be a ultrasound tech and i am SOO bad at math 😂
Yea all my friends got really confused a couple years ago when I said I got an ultrasound on my palm.
I think you are the ultrasound technician who monitored my babies in Phoenix. If you are, my twins were little MMA fighters on the ultrasound and yes it was only practice for them 😂😂
Imagine your ultrasound tech getting done with you and saying "there's a bathroom down the hall and to your left, you and I both know you need it" 😂😂😂
Vocal fry is frying my brain.
“We’re ultrasound techs and we all suck at math”
You and me both
This actually felt really crappy to watch as a person with endometriosis and the treatment I’ve had in the past from ultrasounds finding 3 inch cysts all in one ovary. The one I kept saying was hurting for months and the ultrasound tech brushed me and my concerns off which pushed my suffering and ended with two rupturing and a trip to the ER. 😅
You look like amazing nurses 😊❤.
I love ulta sound techs lol😊
For my 1st ultrasound the 1st thing my tech said was “holy crap!” I thought she was going to tell me I was having at least triplets. She was only reacting to how full my bladder was 🙃
An ultrasound tech changed my life! She’s the only one on staff for, like, eight different practices *and* the hospital; but she scanned me for nearly a year to help find my adenomyosis 🥹🥲 One of the many unsung heroes in medicine ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
When I was pregnant the amount of time I’ve heard “oh you have a full bladder!” When I didn’t feel like I had to pee at the OBGYN was insane. 😂
OMG I SWEAR THE FIRST LADY TOOK MY PELVIC ULTRASOUND LIKE LAST WEEK
🥹🥹🥹
I was getting an X-ray once and i asked how to it looked and he said "it would be illegal for me to tell you"
you can say i'm an ultrasound tech and i'm hot cause it fits
I distinctly remember having an x-ray on my back. after the imaging the radiologist came in instead of the tech. Asked me how I was feeling, if I had any pain, and told me to call my doctor right away.
Yea, it wasn't good... But I'm still here😊
As a radiologist who works closely with my techs (who I love dearly), this is hilarious!😂
When I was around 5, I had to get an ultrasound at a urologist so they could figure out why I kept getting kidney infections as soon as my prior infection was resolved.
Turns out it wasn't very possible for a 5 yo to drink enough water to flush out THREE kidneys fast enough to not get infections. I had to switch up my liquid intake to something that goes through the system more efficiently, and I haven't had any kidney issues since.
My ultrasound tech confirmed my ectopic pregnancy last year(blood work for weeks before that indicated that it was likely).. she stated “this isn’t how I wanted to start my day”…..👍🏼 me either ma’am. Thanks.
We're ultrasound techs and we need attention.
My techs scan my kidneys every couple of years. Love them.
I would have assumed that the math abilities were up there. Surprising.
Some damn hot ultrasound techs
2 ultrasound techs with my last pregnancy told me my bladder was full & sent me off to the bathroom after i told them it wasn’t, after my doctor took a look at results she let the techs know it was a big ass cyst and not a full bladder 🤣
I spent about 30 years doing ultrasound. With about 20 years doing adult cardiovascular ultrasound and finishing my career doing pediatric echoes for the last 8 years or so. Never once was I called a nurse, I was always called doctor.
It's a bit funny for me, because my country doesn't have ultrasound techs. Ultrasounds are performed by a doctors and results come on the spot.
But yeah. Lots of people think ultrasounds are just for pregnancies 🙄 I've had dozens and they were almost always to diagnose synovitis or to guide an intra-articular injection. A few to check glands. Never babies.
I just had a thyroid ultrasound last week. No change from previous scans. Maybe the problem is in the pituitary. On the bright side, brain surgery through the nose may leave less of a visible scar than neck surgery.
The States are so weird, in my country unless you finished residency and passed your specialty exam + in some specialties it’s also needed to take courses to get competency for it, you can’t do ultrasounds…