BDI scan?

Has anybody had a BDI scan for Atlanto-Occipital-Dissociation? Dr. Google isn’t doing a very good job of explaining it. I was supposed to be scheduling my head/neck scan and they through in a BDI scan. I found out yesterday. Nobody is in the office. I have PAD and had a CTA with runoff in November and a MRI because the vascular surgeon thought my pain was coming from my back. MRI showed normal degeneration. CTA with runoff for vascular showed I have 100% blockage in my right femoral artery… the whole artery. Surgeon won’t do angio because he says he only has a 35% of getting through the blockage and doesn’t advise it because of my other health issues. My next option is major surgery doing a bypass of the artery. Last option is hang in there with him. I go back ever 3 months for a reading. I finally thought then what? It’s not going to get better so the choices will be the bypass or amputation of the leg. The Neuro doesn’t know about the vascular diagnosis. I’m hoping that stops the stent in my neck. Ever just fell like you’re going down for the last time.

The only thing I could find was here Basion-dens interval | Radiology Reference Article | Radiopaedia.org

I had 18 dislocated vertebrae when I was 15, I think I was 17 or 18 before getting that diagnosis as one of the cervical vertebrae was severing the nerve to my right arm. I think they just did x-rays, but it was so long ago I don’t remember.

In 2012 I had a CT of lower spine pre surgery, a CT and MRI maybe in 2014 of my lumbar and cervical section as I was having issues after walking, two years ago the Neurologist order a complete spinal MRI, my cervical area is more of a mess and am a candidate for surgery but my Neurosurgeon knows I’m tired of surgeries, so she’s agreed to wait until there isn’t much of a choice. I’m no longer allowed to do PT for my neck the way I used to, pop my neck, nor use my traction set up. I have never heard the term BDI. When I get some time and am feeling better, I’ll look back on my old images as I wonder if it’s a focus with either a CT or MRI. I’m really interested.

You might want to reach out to your Neuro and let them know. I’ve been seeing so many specialists, I asked one what they thought of me providing lunch to all my specialists so they could get together with my PCP and come up with a plan, kid you not. I get a bit overwhelmed with having to let my PCP know what each specialist is doing. I also get frustrated with the office people in each specialist, not faxing or using secure email to my PCP.

To your last statement, recently yes. A good friend of ours is a Pentecostal Minister, imagine that! (We aren’t Pentecostal.) I was having a really nasty flare up of my dermatomyositis when he called. Thought I was going down, sooner rather than later and I really wanted the pain to stop. He suggested I read Job in the Old Testament. I figured if Job could handle all that was thrown at him, I could as well. I also went back to reading Janet Evanovich because laughter is a good way for me to escape, even for a short time.