Anyone ever had an MRI?

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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Nope. Had a CT though. I couldn't even wear my hospital pyjama-top, because the metal buttons interfered with the machine, and yes, I was injected with a contrast agent to show up all my lovely gruesomeness in full resolution.

    MRIs don't use x-ray photography, though.

    Here are some differences between MRIs and CTs:

    http://www.listen-up.org/med/ct_mri.htm
  • iluvcats
    iluvcats Posts: 5,153
    RW81233 wrote:
    I panicked when my bike brakes didn't initially catch, and put my feet down to stop. How bout you?

    my mom had two tears in her meniscus and she had an arthroscopy yesterday. I thought she was all the way inside the machine. I've had two MRI's on my brain, 1 with dye, and 1 w/o. I've had my neck done and my lower back. I tend to be claustrophobic so I took valium. I think I was in there 40 mins for the brain one.

    good luck!
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  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    The Jeagler wrote:

    most places let you listen to music. last one i did, i brought in my ipod and they hooked it up to their system. so that helped pass the time. that mri was also for my neck so it was a much worse experience than a knee. i am clausterphobic and being all the way in that thing was rough. plus i could not budge my head even a little bit. it was awful.

    The neck - gads that must have been awful.

    They offered me to listen to music but didn't have the option for connecting an ipod, so it was just piped in through their crappy headphones, and it didn't come in really well, so I just gave up on it.
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  • RW81233
    RW81233 Posts: 2,393
    Thanks for all the info and heads up. It wasn't super bad although staying still isn't fun. The suckiest thing though was that the techs that ran it aren't doctors and I have 16 sets of pics on my knee sitting here in my living room, and no way to read them. So I get to wait till Monday to find out the verdict. I'm hoping for a grade 1 sprain, but it's likely to be the damn meniscus from all the things I've heard and where the pain is.

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