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Help reading my CT scan?

Just so you know a little history I had hernia surgery 10 years ago on both sides of lower abdomen. I strarted having sever pain again 5 years later. It was off an on and so severe I threw up from the pain and location in lower abdomen. I convinced a surgeon to look and trim the netting if needed. That turned into an almost 7 hour surgery and required a 6" cut below my belly button because the previous repair came undone and wrapped around scar tissue and my muscle wall. I ended up with permanent nerve damage but have full mobility which I was told I would have lost had they not corrected it. Anyway I had been doing good on meds and careful lifting of anything heavy. Two weeks ago I got hit again out of the blue with the same pain and SEVERE nausea. I ended up in the ER to get fluids in me and so they could do a CT to make sure my appendix is ok which it appears to be. I am consulting another surgeon and got a copy of my CT but to me parts of it do not look right. Any ideas?

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1. Radiologists read all the CTs and give their reports to the doctors. Doctors also look at the cts and consult the radiologists if they think that they see something on a ct. So the cts are usually read twice by two different people. If there was something wrong the radiologist would have caught it when they read it. The films from cts always look weird when they are printed out. I know that because I've seen enough of them. They look better on a computer screen where you can zoom in and out and switch angles and look at multiple slices at a time. If you have a previous ct to compare it too that would be more helpful than just going off the looks this one when it's already passed through the pros once...