Jugular or Vascular ES or what do I call it?

[KoolDude]

@jteleia you are welcome. What I mean by axial is the raw CT images that are generated by rotating your body around its axis (90 degree) to the body. Simply put, it is the raw CT images, not the 3D rendered ones. 3D rendering can make organs touch each other (like vessel and bone) without them truly touching so it is less reliable than the actual raw CT slices. This is because the tissue size and the appearance of 3D images depends on the volume rendering intensity you choose (you can make them transparent by reducing the intensity or make them opaque by increasing it so this can introduce artifacts that may not exist in reality so any contact you observe should be confirmed with the raw CT slices).

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@jteleia

I am going to ask them to hold the venous phase longer and then try to use that program you all have suggested to turn the diacom files into 3D pics myself but I won’t be able to remove the jaw etc. that Dr. M did in the US.

You can use this tutorial to teach you how to remove body parts such as the jaw as you asked if you intend to use the free 3D slicer software (Making Your Own 3D Images from CT Scan- 3D Slicer Tutorial - #4 by SnappleofDiscord)

@jteleia

He postulated that the huge hole in my skull on the right side where the carotid sheath goes through might have been ‘eroded’ by the pressure on it over the years and since it’s on the same side I get the migraines, it does seem like there’s a problem there, but I also get them on the left sometimes and sometimes all over my head where I want it to explode. I don’t even know if it’s possible for the skull bone to ‘erode’ from pressure but an ENT in Spain who does the surgery said it was just an anatomical difference. I don’t know if you know about that but I thought I’d add it

Well I am not a doctor and certainly did not examine your CT to speculate what can cause it and frankly should be leaving it to doctors since it is their area of expertise. If the doctor thinks it is pressure that created the skull hole, then I think you should have asked him whether a compression/narrowing of the the right Jugular vein just below the skull by the Styloid process/C1 could have contributed the pressure build around the skull entry. That would have been significant indicator of why the blood is pooling around the skull entry. I, however, know that pressure (force applied on an area) can erode any material and the rate it erodes depends on the makeup of the material being eroded and the size and the duration of the pressure applied (this is from science perspective, not medical one).

@jteleia

Dr. M said the flow on the left side was going backwards according to the ultrasound, but again not sure if he was doing it right. After the atlas AO adjustment, he said it was flowing the right way again. So yes, lack of drainage of all the waste products in my head could be why my brain is getting more and more dysfunctional, and my eyes too.

Well again if Dr M said the blood was going backwards, you should have asked him what that means. When you said left side, I take it you mean the left internal jugular vein and if that is the case, then, does it mean because it is occluded/obstructed/compressed so that the blood has no choice but to flow backward (retrograde bloodflow is usually a sign of the vessel being occluded). I would ask all these questions. I hope I answered all your questions here.