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Anybody here gotten an MRI before. I'm getting one tomorrow, not claustrophobic at all but the process sounds scary. -- nm

Posted by ceregon Jan 5 '09, 13:21

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If you're not claustropobic you should be fine. - Mel Profit Jan 5, 13:42
It's not scary. You're probably just scared of what it might find. You lie down on your own in a machine while the nurse and the guy running the - Loyola Jan 5, 13:38 4
- Now I'm going to be laughing about your IM whenever they tell me to be still. - ceregon Jan 5, 13:46 1
  - Mission accomplished ;) -- nm - Loyola Jan 5, 13:48
- ahem. I am scared of the process. so it would be scary to me. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:39 1
  - Interesting. -- nm - Loyola Jan 5, 13:45
it depends on what part of your body they are imaging - tRuMaN Jan 5, 13:26 20
- i have. i had it done on my head. just keep your eyes closed. it's not really a big deal. - El Fandie Jan 5, 13:38 2
  - err. should be under original post. -- nm - El Fandie Jan 5, 13:38 1
    - oh, and they have this thing (if your head is in the machine) that lightly blows air on your face, to give the sensation of space around you. - El Fandie Jan 5, 13:40
- also, if you have a steel rod in your knee, you might want to mention that first. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 5, 13:27 10
  - metal plate in your skull? definitely tell them. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:28 2
    - grenade shrapnel lodged mere inches from vital organs? you'll probably be cool. -- nm - TFox Jan 5, 13:30 1
      - phew. -- nm - Tony Stark Jan 5, 13:33
  - or dental work like bridges but they can work around it. -- nm - zork Jan 5, 13:28 6
    - I have a small metal wire around the back of the front five teeth on my lower jaw ... I wonder what festivities that would result in. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 5, 13:33 5
      - five? that's an odd number. retainer? -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:34 4
        
        One of the front four was pulled due to poor placement -- nm - Beryllium Jan 5, 13:35 3
        
        aahhhh. When I had the wire it was behind the lower front six, anchored to the canines. - loosilu Jan 5, 13:39 2
        
        this one is just glued on to what would normally be the front six, I don't think it's "anchored" in the banded sense -- nm - Beryllium Jan 5, 13:40 1
        
        exactly what I had. watch out if it gets loose, it stabbed me in the palate one day. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:43
- 2 hours? I've never been in one longer than 45 minutes. (knee from Hell) -- nm - Diva Jan 5, 13:27 5
  - umm, it might have been longer actually - tRuMaN Jan 5, 13:30 4
    - I would have gone nuts. totally claustrophobic. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:30 3
      - yeah, like i said - tRuMaN Jan 5, 13:32 2
        
        is t here an option for a sedative? seriously. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:32 1
        
        they never offered me one. - tRuMaN Jan 5, 13:34
I've only had my knee MRI'd before, but so claustrophobia wasn't a big factor. (nm) - musubi Jan 5, 13:26
mrs. zork just had one and was nervous about it ... - zork Jan 5, 13:25 1
- Thank you for that Salma link, btw - con_carne Jan 5, 13:26
it's actually surprisingly dull. either you go into machine, machine buzzes, or machine rotates around you and buzzes, depending on the machine. - mafic Jan 5, 13:24 11
- *lemon donuts.* where have you been? -- nm - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 5, 13:24 10
  - and lemon donuts sounds like the world's mildest curse. -- nm - mafic Jan 5, 13:29 8
    - but perhaps the tastiest. -- nm - nubby Jan 5, 13:33 5
      - We should have Mild Curse Mondays. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:34 3
        
        Fiddlesticks! -- nm - con_carne Jan 5, 13:42 1
        
        oh sugar. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:45
        
        You're darn tootin'. -- nm - nubby Jan 5, 13:41
      - *honestly.* it's a compliment, donuts! I swear. -- nm - the last semester ever loves mandy lane Jan 5, 13:34
    - laughing. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:31
    - I let that one slip once, and boy did that put me in a dilly of a pickle! -- nm - Flanders Jan 5, 13:30
  - it's that damn dateline again. makes me into a night person. -- nm - mafic Jan 5, 13:26
It's not that bad. What part of the body are you having imaged? -- nm - Diva Jan 5, 13:24 3
- My head. I started getting migraines about a year ago. They ruled out the usual stuff, so now they want to make sure there's nothing wrong in my brain -- nm - ceregon Jan 5, 13:25 2
  - when I was a kid, I had a cat scan cause I kept getting headaches - tRuMaN Jan 5, 13:31
  - What sucks, is that they put you in a brace thing so that you can't move your head. That being said, I fell asleep in the tube twice it's so boring - Amy Jan 5, 13:28
No big deal. -- nm - nubby Jan 5, 13:23
Scary *boring*. I've had four. (five?) -- nm - Amy Jan 5, 13:22 7
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  - the big danger is if you have something metal in your body. bad things result when you turn on a giant magnet. -- nm - loosilu Jan 5, 13:27 1
    - or when they forget to remove an oxygen tank -- nm - zork Jan 5, 13:29
  - Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Just a big electro magnet aligning your molecules. -- nm - TWuG Jan 5, 13:25 2
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    - i.e. zero radiation in the nuclear sense above the general background levels from the big bang and your standard cosmic waves -- nm - zork Jan 5, 13:27
- Do repeated MRIs cause memory loss? I forget. - Beryllium Jan 5, 13:23

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