Reply to Static electric shock sensation during ultrasound?

Forum Index » Expectant and Postpartum Moms

Reply to "Static electric shock sensation during ultrasound?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My father and brother both work in ultrasound (they invent and patent it for different biomed uses). I am sure that it's a safe imaging method bc it uses sound waves and[b] the devices used for fetal monitoring are at very low and safe level[/b]s. Unless the machine malfunctioned somehow, I doubt it was the ultrasound itself. Very safe. It was probably more the pressure applied by the sonographer than the equipment. I've had several sonograms this time around bc of complications and sometimes they press really hard and hit a nerve, to get the right angle. Perhaps that was it?[/quote]

I remember reading during my last pregnancy that many, many machines are not correctly calibrated and are set wrong. I'm a big fan of getting diagnostics as appropriate, but ultrasounds actually do not have a long track record (what is it, the 1960s they started getting more use in obstetrics?) and there is a bit of a question mark as to whether or not those sound waves can mess with fetal development. My stomach almost hurt after a particularly long one.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics