Preparing for MRI

showcrop · Dec 30, 2015

The post about an MRI made me want to share my experience. I have had a number of them over the thirty or so years since they started doing them. I have had a lot of shoulder damage from different crazy things that I have done, and as has been already mentioned, lying flat for too long will result in a lot of pain. Another problem is post nasal drip, along with the feeling like you are drowning. Either of these can make it pretty much impossible to stay still in there. My advice is to talk to the technicians. Their job is to get the job done, and they will do pretty much anything to make it possible for you to lie still. They can, within reason, pad under your shoulder to keep it close to your torso. One time they strapped around my upper arm and chest. Another time when I had a cold they propped me up just enough so that my sinuses would drain instead of drowning me. If you don't tell them what is likely to happen they can't help you.

rustyfarmall · Dec 30, 2015

(quoted from post at 06:33:13 12/30/15) The post about an MRI made me want to share my experience. I have had a number of them over the thirty or so years since they started doing them. I have had a lot of shoulder damage from different crazy things that I have done, and as has been already mentioned, lying flat for too long will result in a lot of pain. Another problem is post nasal drip, along with the feeling like you are drowning. Either of these can make it pretty much impossible to stay still in there. My advice is to talk to the technicians. Their job is to get the job done, and they will do pretty much anything to make it possible for you to lie still. They can, within reason, pad under your shoulder to keep it close to your torso. One time they strapped around my upper arm and chest. Another time when I had a cold they propped me up just enough so that my sinuses would drain instead of drowning me. If you don't tell them what is likely to happen they can't help you.

There is also such a thing as an "open MRI". It is open all the way around. No need to go into that tube, and you can listen to music through headphones the whole time.

FBH44 · Dec 30, 2015

I have claustrophobia, and I get panicky inside that machine. Have had two MRI's, and I did not enjoy them. BUT, I finally got some relief on the last one. The noise scares me, and I get panicky. The last one, I tried to visualize some reason for the noise, to take my mind off it, and I first tried to imagine riding my Farmall with the transmission and clutch self-destructing, eating gears, etc. But this didnt help for long. I finally began to imagine the noises were all coming from Moe, Larry and Curly, as the Stooges ran amuck, destroyed the machine, banged on the housings, rambled around, argued, whacked on each other, raised holy-hob. Helped me a lot.

RalphWD45 · Dec 30, 2015

I have been put thru several machines, and am guessing that that MRI you are talking about, must be the one I called the coffin, Didn.t know I was clostrophobic till I got in there. I took it pretty good, till a few minutes, turned into an hour( it seemed like )Finally quit telling myself to calm down, and hollered at that dumb attendant, that He better unlatch that darned thing, or I was going to try and wiggle out of there. He kept trying to tell me that I wasn't allowed to do that, and to lay still. Now that really ------ me off, and that took my mind off being in there. So I capitalized on giving him a hard time, till he let me out. I told my Dr to find some other way of diagnosing me, from now on, or just let me die, naturally.

cuby · Dec 30, 2015

Had a MRI for my shoulder in one of those tubes. I took a pill to relax. gal running it asked what kind of music I wanted,told her,well they didnt have that.

She chewed me out real good as she said that I was moveing but to me I was not.
Will never forget that.

gab · Dec 30, 2015

I've had 3 of them, for some reason the first time they had me raised up to my nose was just about rubbing the top, didn't like that. Second time was better and fell asleep the third time.

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