Interesting experience

[LoboGunLeather]

Went in for a MRI exam, my first experience with this technology. Lying very still inside a tunnel-like machine while magnetic energy of varying intensities is directed through your body to create highly detailed and accurate images of soft tissue, organs, joints, etc. Took about 1/2 hour with a panic button in hand for those suffering claustrophobia, or in the event that some small bit of metal residing inside your body reacts to the magnets with extreme heat and movement.

About the closest thing I can compare it to is that time when the aliens took me up to the mothership. But for that I didn't need an appointment, didn't have to drive 50 miles each way, had no trouble with parking, and never received a bill.

 

[wood714]

I've had about a half dozen over the years on my lower back and neck.

I usually fall asleep during them.

 

[427mach1]

Had one done a few years ago. I found it almost comical that the tech gave me a pair of headphones and put on my favorite genre of music. Once the machine started, it was so loud I couldn't hear the music! I just closed my eyes and relaxed.

 

[Krell1]

I think my most humorous experience involved a colonoscopy. A couple days after I had one done we went out to eat at the local Olive Garden. Standing in line in front of me was the doctor that performed the procedure. My wife said I should have said hello and I told her he wouldn't recognize me unless I turned around and pulled down my pants.

I also think that a colonoscopy is about as close as one can get to an alien abduction.

 

[OFT II]

I prefer the alien abduction.

 

[e3mrk]

I cannot do a closed MRI but have no problem with a open one.
A Clinic in Lorain Ohio has a newer one that You sit in a chair and watch television while they do the MRI.
It's a lot more comfortable than the others.

 

[Bugkiller99]

I also think that a colonoscopy is about as close as one can get to an alien abduction.

Same end result.
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I'll see myself out now.

 

[Tyrod]

I've had about a dozen head MRIs over the years. Can anyone splain why only the VA requires me to completely disrobe including shoes for a head MRI.

 

[smitholdtimer]

A Most Horrifying & Uncomfortable Experience

My experience was for an MRI for a hip problem and I have to add that the technition found the most uncomfortable position for the hip to assume and the pain seemed to magnify plus the noise was defining and the poceedure seemed to never end. Exact the opposite how time flies when you are having fun. Never been offered the "Sit In Chair " technology.

 

[bigwheelzip]

I've had about a dozen head MRIs over the years. Can anyone splain why only the VA requires me to completely disrobe including shoes for a head MRI.

This seems logical.

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[NYlakesider]

Had one done a few years ago. I found it almost comical that the tech gave me a pair of headphones and put on my favorite genre of music. Once the machine started, it was so loud I couldn't hear the music! I just closed my eyes and relaxed.

Had a bunch of them, just keep telling the teck to turn up the music till it gets to the level you want. When they give you instructions the music cuts back so you can hear them. In my case they asked what I wanted to listen to, I said golden oldies. They then asked what era do you want 50s, 60s, 70s, or eighty's. I picked 60s!

 

[wingriderz]

Me a very frequent flyer of those and Cat scan too. Not a big problem test wise . I do dislike them when they do that contrast stuff makes me a bit pukey for a day or so

 

[daddio202]

Just a word to the wise. I am a Registered Radiologic Technologist and so is everybody that runs an M.R.I., C.T. scanner or regular x-ray machine. Just please don't call us a technician. We spend years in college or an accredited program and take a Registry exam just like a Registered nurse. Nothing makes us cringe like word technician which just screams 6 week on the job training program.

 

[Tyrod]

This seems logical.

Do you have to undress before getting into the MRI scanner? - YouTube

While I would agree on the face of it, but I would speculate that the same metal dust particles that would settle on my clothes would also settle on my hair. They don't ask me to wash my hair. Don't forget we're only talking about a head MRI. The machine never travels further than my neck.

 

[NYlakesider]

Just a word to the wise. I am a Registered Radiologic Technologist and so is everybody that runs an M.R.I., C.T. scanner or regular x-ray machine. Just please don't call us a technician. We spend years in college or an accredited program and take a Registry exam just like a Registered nurse. Nothing makes us cringe like word technician which just screams 6 week on the job training program.

I will keep that in mind for the future, no disrespect intended!!

 

[STCM(SW)]

Try a urinary scope exam like I had two days ago!
Dr. " This may be slightly uncomfortable."

Not the words I would have used!

 

[NYlakesider]

Try a urinary scope exam like I had two days ago!
Dr. " This may be slightly uncomfortable."

Not the words I would have used!

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The best is yet to come!

I hope the bottom line is your signature not what the doctor said to you!

 

[fiasconva]

The alien abducting isn't nearly as bad as the colonoscopy. You don't have to do the prep for the abduction.

 

[forindooruseonly]

I was so busted up for my MRI and CAT scans that I didn't much care what the experience was like. They certainly didn't have to tell me to be still, that's for sure.

 

[snubbyfan]

When my motor nerve condition started, they did an MRI of my head to rule out a stroke.
The tech. said they found nothing in there.

 

[eveled]

Something about the MRI machine makes me twitch, they want you to stay still as soon as the machine starts the twitching starts. I must be magnetic?

The panic button is a joke, I used mine, they told me to wait a minute.

My wife's a "tech". I never realized she's a nologist, not a nician. Learn something new everyday.

 

[TTSH]

The alien abducting isn't nearly as bad as the colonoscopy. You don't have to do the prep for the abduction.

Sad but true. The "prep" is the worse part by far.

When my motor nerve condition started, they did an MRI of my head to rule out a stroke.
The tech. said they found nothing in there.

Same for me when the Doc insisted on a brain MRI in regard to my screaming tinnitus. "Nothing in there at all" was the verdict.

 

[vigil617]

I've had about a dozen head MRIs over the years. Can anyone splain why only the VA requires me to completely disrobe including shoes for a head MRI.

Because, you see, most of the VA folks have their head in a place that requires such, so it's natural for them to require you to disrobe just like they have to.

 

[vigil617]

Try a urinary scope exam like I had two days ago!
Dr. " This may be slightly uncomfortable."

Not the words I would have used!

C'mon, Master Chief, it wasn't as bad as going to sea on a boat that spends most of its time underwater, was it?

Thanks to a bout with bladder cancer from which I've now fully recovered, praise God, I've had a couple dozen of these over the last 13 years. Once you've ever been diagnosed, the uros like to take a look at least once a year. I'm to the point now I can carry on a conversation with my guy while he's doing his thing.

I ain't braggin', and I'm not saying there's not a very quick twinge there when the scope passes the prostate, but the old saying is very true: it's amazing what you can get used to.

I wouldn't have wanted to have it done the way they did in the old days, though, with the instruments I've seen pictures of.

Sorry for the thread drift, so to bring it back to topic: If I could get an MRI instead of having the scope, and the price was the same, I'd opt for the MRI, of course!

 

[Krell1]

Try a urinary scope exam like I had two days ago!
Dr. " This may be slightly uncomfortable."

Not the words I would have used!

I TWINGED when I read this. To me, sounds worse than a colonoscopy that they put you to sleep for. Why not do the same for this procedure? I also can't understand the commercial for catheters. The guy in the commercial is smiling when he shows one that he slips in his pocket and smiles again when he gets the huge box of catheters delivered.

I feel for the people who, unfortunately, have to endure these tests and procedures. I guess at 72 I'm lucky that I've been OK so far.

 

[STCM(SW)]

"C'mon, Master Chief, it wasn't as bad as going to sea on a boat that spends most of its time underwater, was it?"

Never was on a sub that went under water while I was on it.
I was a DE,FF, FFG, DD, CG guy.... A lot safer
Been on two that lost all power. You just float, DIW....

Back on subject, had a CS yesterday.
Hoping for the best but won't know till Tuesday at the DR's.

 

[daddio202]

Can not go wrong with calling us a Tech. that's what we usually call each other. When nurses or doctors want us our name is just X-Ray. "Where did x-ray go?" "Get x-ray up here stat" LOL

 

[TTSH]

The problem for me is that my local hospital (the one I need to use due to my insurance) has an MRI machine that was made in the dark ages for really slim "skin and bones" people. If you are normal or plumper by today's standards, forget about it!!! I lose all feeling in about 30 seconds flat and have to be pulled out. Breathing? No possibility for that at all!

There is a private company "open MRI" place that I can sometimes get special permission to use, but the images come out terrible... almost useless.

The best MRI place is the one our New England Patriots reportedly use. It's an actual human being-sized machine. If it can take a football player, it can surely take me!

Unfortunately, my insurance plan won't cover it.

 

[billwill]

MRI...drugs first.....then yep everything is fine. I just don't mentally measure the extremely short distance between the end of my nose and the machine. To close. Tight spaces are not on my to do list!

 

[Mike G 0351]

Just had one yesterday, Not sure how many I have had, Heck I go sleep..