Anybody ever have an MRI?

**BigBadBrian** · 01-13-2005, 04:18 PM

Anybody ever have an MRI? I have to have another one. I had one before about 6 years ago but I was heavily sedated and don't remember much.

I'm claustrophobic and I think I'm going to freak the hell out.

How long does it last? The doctor gave me Ativan to calm me down.

**DrMaddVibe** · 01-13-2005, 04:20 PM

It's a "walk in the park"!

Relax.

**Carmine** · 01-13-2005, 04:21 PM

I had one before. If you are claustrophobic, Sorry BBB, but you will not like this. Mine took 50 minutes...best thing to do is just close your eyes and relax. It was 8 years ago that I had mine, I have heard they do have "open" ones now. I hope for you sake, its an open test.

Fabulous Shadow · 01-13-2005, 04:22 PM

I have had 2. Find out if you can get an "OPEN SYSTEM" MRI. You don't have to go in the tube. I have had BOTH kinds and found the Open System type to be a walk in the park.

They generally last about 45 mins... Too damn long to be in a tube!

**DLR7884** · 01-13-2005, 04:39 PM

Yeah, I hope you have the open one too!

DLR7884
Just double up on the drugs and get some Z's.

**distortion9** · 01-13-2005, 04:40 PM

Just recently had a "Stand Up" MRI done for my back....it was great. They had a wide screen tv set up playing old Honeymooner episodes, I shit you not.

I've also had a "closed" MRI done way back. Didn't bother me much, it was just REALLY hard to stay perfectly still for so long.

Look into the "Stand Up" thing.

**smaz** · 01-13-2005, 04:46 PM

I think it was one of those I had, or it was something similar. I swear it took about 10 mins or so, but I'm not sure. I got given shite music to listen to, and almost fell asleep. They're easy, just lie there and wait. You should get an alarm or something you can press if you need to stop at any time though.

**Ally_Kat** · 01-13-2005, 04:54 PM

my father takes them every other week it seems now.

His last about 45 mins in the tube. They should ask you if you are claustrophobic and when they tell you, they'll most likely knock you out for it. If they just give you something to take the edge off of your worry, they'll also give you some headphones to listen to.

It is also rather loud in them. That's mainly why they give you the headphones.

But yeah, if you are worried that you'll freak out, just warn them before hand and take the snooze.

edit -- Dad says they'll also inject you with something before they start.

**Jesterstar** · 01-13-2005, 05:08 PM

If I am not mistaken a MRI means that the cylinder is going to shrink to the size of your body cutting off your air and circulation for almost a full minuet. But I am only totally certain of that. I hear it can kill a closterphobic also.

**distortion9** · 01-13-2005, 05:10 PM

wtf?

**GAR** · 01-13-2005, 05:12 PM

What the open system does is microwave your fuckin' brains until the Alien's homing selector pin falls outta your head - and they do this because the damned thing is so hard to find with x-rays: very small, metallic but does not show up in imaging.

The amplified waves of over 300,000 MegaGAUSS® induced directly into the forehead actually vibrates the little bastard sufficiently to the extent that it breaks thru the surface of the skin no matter how deeply embedded in yer skull, whereupon a hi-frequency microsensor detects when it hits the metal pan behind the foam pillow you lay down on.

Fuck ATAVAN, ask for some SHIATSU. And a Percodan pushed up the arse.. that'll calm you down some really good, now!

Fabulous Shadow · 01-13-2005, 05:13 PM

I was never injected with anything? I stayed awake and without meds both times. I closed my eyes before going in and NEVER opened them. I did bacis relaxation techniques while in the tube. I did get a lil freaked the first time and almost had to ask them to get me out, but I just did some deep breathing and it wore off.

**DLR7884** · 01-13-2005, 05:21 PM

I thought they did injections or made you drink some sort of liquid when you got a CAT scan....

DLR7884
Not an MRI....I'm probably mistaken though.

**GAR** · 01-13-2005, 05:25 PM

Originally posted by Fabulous Shadow
I was never injected with anything? I stayed awake and without meds both times. I closed my eyes before going in and NEVER opened them.

meh.

what a fun lay you seem to be.

you probably frigg it under the covers, with the lights and TV off too.

**smaz** · 01-13-2005, 05:52 PM

Originally posted by GAR

What the open system does is microwave your fuckin' brains until the Alien's homing selector pin falls outta your head - and they do this because the damned thing is so hard to find with x-rays: very small, metallic but does not show up in imaging.

The amplified waves of over 300,000 MegaGAUSS® induced directly into the forehead actually vibrates the little bastard sufficiently to the extent that it breaks thru the surface of the skin no matter how deeply embedded in yer skull, whereupon a hi-frequency microsensor detects when it hits the metal pan behind the foam pillow you lay down on.

Fuck ATAVAN, ask for some SHIATSU. And a Percodan pushed up the arse.. that'll calm you down some really good, now!

Fantastic....

**smaz** · 01-13-2005, 05:54 PM

Originally posted by Jesterstar
If I am not mistaken a MRI means that the cylinder is going to shrink to the size of your body cutting off your air and circulation for almost a full minuet. But I am only totally certain of that. I hear it can kill a closterphobic also.

I heard you're a wanker. Guess my ears are ok.

**GAR** · 01-13-2005, 06:00 PM

Let's talk about a Cat Deeley scanning..

**Ally_Kat** · 01-13-2005, 06:28 PM

Originally posted by DLR7884
I thought they did injections or made you drink some sort of liquid when you got a CAT scan....

DLR7884
Not an MRI....I'm probably mistaken though.

He gets MRIs and he gets an injection. And no, they are not knocking him out or sedating him because he's all cool with laying in the tube.

**Rikk** · 01-13-2005, 06:32 PM

Did your Dad get used to it after going in that many times?

**Ally_Kat** · 01-13-2005, 06:38 PM

He was cool with it from the beginning. First time they told him what they were going to do and all he asked was what type of music they would give him to listen to. Dad's laid back like that.

**Rikk** · 01-13-2005, 07:40 PM

Originally posted by Ally_Kat
He was cool with it from the beginning. First time they told him what they were going to do and all he asked was what type of music they would give him to listen to. Dad's laid back like that.

You should have made him listen to 1984.

**TLR** · 01-13-2005, 09:22 PM

I had one and it was in the tube and lasted for at least 30 minutes. Didn't bother me at all. I was laying flat on my back just listening to all the racket the thing makes...

**GAR** · 01-13-2005, 09:34 PM

I heard that if your nerve endings in the Hypothalamus section of the brain are wired horizontally instead of vertically, you run the risk of coming outta there speaking in fluent Cuntonese..

Flash Bastard · 01-13-2005, 09:42 PM

Unless you're clausterphobic it's not a big deal at all, the hardest thing is remaining still for 30 minutes to an hour.

Oh yeah, and it's pretty boring in there, even with all the neat clicking and banging noises the thing makes.

**Jesterstar** · 01-13-2005, 09:42 PM

Originally posted by smaz
I heard you're a wanker. Guess my ears are ok.

Why do you have a cock in your ears??? because that's the only way a fag like you would feel ok with their ears.

**BigBadBrian** · 01-13-2005, 10:02 PM

Originally posted by Fabulous Shadow
I was never injected with anything? I stayed awake and without meds both times. I closed my eyes before going in and NEVER opened them. I did bacis relaxation techniques while in the tube. I did get a lil freaked the first time and almost had to ask them to get me out, but I just did some deep breathing and it wore off.

Deep Breathing? Deep Breathing? I'm already Hyperventilating!

Hell, I think I'm going to shit my pants!

This thing looks like a damn coffin. I think my one saving redemption is I have metallic dental bridgework so they can't put me in head first. I got the bastards on that one. Why in the hell do they need my head in that damn torture chamber if it's my mid-section they need to magnetize/radiate?

Bastards.

**GAR** · 01-13-2005, 10:03 PM

Hes saying he can't hear you because he's got a cock in his ears and that it's fine with him because he enjoys the fulfilling sounds of a throbbing knob upside the face like that.

**GAR** · 01-13-2005, 10:07 PM

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
Why in the hell do they need my head in that damn torture chamber if it's my mid-section they need to magnetize/radiate?

Bastards.

I asked a professional at Arcadia Radiology where I had my Gock scanned for impurities, "Why can't they start the machine at the midsection?" and she told me ".. we start the magnetic field before you enter it so that the patient has a smooth transition, rather than immediately scramble his DNA like huervos rancheros for breakfast the second we flick the switch."

I hoped this explanation helps calm you down n'stuff..

**GAR** · 01-13-2005, 10:09 PM

I felt it necessary also to mention something I omitted previously:

"Don't watch the remake of that movie 'The Fly" starring Jeff Goldblum immediately before visiting the office for an MRI"

Don't do that.
I can't tell you "why not" so don't bother asking, you'd have to see it.

- what I mean is "don't 'see it' " prior to doing a scan.

Fabulous Shadow · 01-13-2005, 10:57 PM

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
Deep Breathing? Deep Breathing? I'm already Hyperventilating!

Hell, I think I'm going to shit my pants!

This thing looks like a damn coffin. I think my one saving redemption is I have metallic dental bridgework so they can't put me in head first. I got the bastards on that one. Why in the hell do they need my head in that damn torture chamber if it's my mid-section they need to magnetize/radiate?

Bastards.

WTF? Your HEAD isn't going in? That's a piece of cake bro!

**Jesterstar** · 01-14-2005, 08:56 AM

Originally posted by Fabulous Shadow
WTF? Your HEAD isn't going in? That's a piece of cake bro!

Actually your whole head is attached to a vacume to sucktion the Latex to cut off your circulation and Air.

**BigBadBrian** · 01-14-2005, 06:20 PM

Originally posted by Jesterstar
Actually your whole head is attached to a vacume to sucktion the Latex to cut off your circulation and Air.

Attached to a vacuum? Kinda like the way you give yourself a blowjob?

**BigBadBrian** · 01-14-2005, 06:25 PM

Originally posted by Fabulous Shadow
WTF? Your HEAD isn't going in? That's a piece of cake bro!

Maybe, but you don't understand. I'm claustrophobic. Shit, I get claustrophic under the bedsheets at night with just my head sticking out. I have to stick a leg out of the side of the bed to "get my freedom," if you know what if mean.

And forget doing the

under the sheets. No damn way. I don't care if it's freezing outside. My wife's cool with it after all these years.

**Jesterstar** · 01-14-2005, 06:45 PM

Originally posted by BigBadBrian
Attached to a vacuum? Kinda like the way you give yourself a blowjob?

Years of Yoga Helped me do that Bigboy.

**BigBadBrian** · 01-20-2005, 09:24 AM

Originally posted by Ally_Kat
He gets MRIs and he gets an injection. And no, they are not knocking him out or sedating him because he's all cool with laying in the tube.

OK, so I got this thing last night. It wasn't as bad as I thought. Maybe it was because of the drugs.

Anyway, I had to lay in that fucking torpedo tube for 45 minutes. Yes, they did hook an IV up to me. The chick (she was hot!) explained that certain target areas under study need different contrast agents, even for an MRI. Organs get it usually, bones and ligaments don't, for example.

**Jamocha Joe** · 01-20-2005, 09:51 AM

I just had an MRI yesterday and I'm claustrophobic too. This is the second one for me. I get the heebie jeebies just thinking about it.

**Susie Q** · 01-20-2005, 06:02 PM

The thing with MRI's is the "stuff" that they inject you with. You all want to be sure that you are not on a certain medication for diabete's. The dye would KILL you. I believe it is Gloucophage. Check with ELVIS on that one.....he is the resident RN.

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