My consultant a week ago ordered a ct scan for my asthma. He said it would take 6 to 8 weeks to be scheduled, in fact it has come through immediately.
He also has me temporarily on lots of predisone which has got my asthma nicely under control.
If I have a ct scan when my asthma is under control, does that make the ct scan pointless as there will be no inflammation to show up.
Give your consultant team a quick call to check if they want the scan to happen after you finish your current course of steroids.
If you can I think it would be great to ask your doctor more questions about the scan. For example, are they looking for something else aside from asthma in the scan (nodules, evidence of scarring or remodeling, blocked arteries, fluid etc.)? What asthma markers are they hoping to find? and so on.
I was not expecting him to say he wanted a ct scan, so allowed him to get away with generalities.
He said, it was just one of those tests that asthma consultants liked to do. On challenging further, he said it was so he could build a body of evidence for referral to a severe asthma centre. They would expect it to have been done.
I've had several so I would agree, it does seem to be something they like to do with severe asthma patients just to make sure there's nothing else going on. I hope it goes well for you!
chest CT
Adult onset.....not chronic??🤷♀️
CT with contrast
CT scan results, still waiting 
