carolcat has gotten an mri now (hi blogland what up) (RESULTS: i have tumor)

[XR-7]

thanks for giving me a horrible fear of going to doctors now

It took all that to find out that I was constipated.

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Morgue?

i looked up what a morgue was and

[XR-7]

Goes in special interestes thread.

[RedGajin]

ok so uh since everyone else is already saying goodluck and all that, this has just really been bugging me
when you said you wrote a note to your mom do you mean like
a letter

because who writes letters anymore i mean
js

[Badger]

^ I think she meant she left a note on the door or kitchen table before she went somewhere

[Steve5451²]

i looked up what a morgue was and

hot

[Planr]

I had an MRI just last spring for a series of jaw issues I was having. Depending on the type of MRI you get it can last from 30 minutes to several hours, and you have to lay COMPLETELY still during those times (im guessing you knew that though). Mine was just for my head so it only took about 25 minutes or so. If you're getting a full-body MRI (and i'm assuming you are), you will probably be in there for a lot longer than I was. So yeah, go to the bathroom real good beforehand.

Oh, one more thing. It's VERY LOUD. Ask them for some cushions for your ears, or else bring earplugs of your own. The place I went to provided me some nice cushions for the sides of my head while I laid in the machine.

Also leave all your technological stuff outside before you enter the MRI room. Anything magnetic will literally almost fly out of your hand and onto the machine, like yoda's hiding behind a curtain in the room or something. The magnets in the machine are very powerful and they will royally screw up any kind of electronic devices you have on you.

[RedGajin]

Also leave all your technological stuff outside before you enter the MRI room. Anything magnetic will literally almost fly out of your hand and onto the machine, like yoda's hiding behind a curtain in the room or something. The magnets in the machine are very powerful and they will royally screw up any kind of electronic devices you have on you.

i fell like thats prob something they tell you before you go in because otherwise yknow
people would get mad
seems kind dumb not to tell them

[Rotondo]

I've been through about 4 or 5 mris, of my back, leg, and head.

I've found that it's an oddly comforting space, the noises are a tiny bit loud but they're rhythmic so it's somewhat soothing.

Depending on which way your head is facing you'll get music as well which can be comforting.


Just be sure to talk to the people working the machine ask all the questions you want to.

[devildogelite]

I've only had MRIs on my head and they're awful. The cage they put around your head where you can't move it for the whole time. Also I had to stay completely still while they took forever to give me an IV because they never confirmed it with an endocrinologist since I'm diabetic. My head was also too large for the pillow and I had to lay on hard plastic the whole time :(

The worst part was not being able to move my head. I don't know much about how MRIs work on other body parts but I hope yours is less of a pain. Do you need to have the dye put in or is that just for brain stuff?

[SquartleTurtle]

take pictures

[carolcat]

kind of a bump but i went to bed last night SO

am i going to have an IV put in? because i'm deathly afraid of needles and i'm already getting 2 shots this coming monday

[McJobless]

am i going to have an IV put in? because i'm deathly afraid of needles and i'm already getting 2 shots this coming monday

An IV for an MRI? Nup. They'll pop you in the machine (you lie down on this bed which then retracts into a big chamber) for a little while and then send you home. You probably already know this, but there's a list of things you can't eat or drink or do before getting the MRI, but otherwise it's not much out of the ordinary.

I went to sleep on the machine, so don't be worried. The thing to be more concerned with is what's actually the problem. Hopefully it's nothing serious, but the MRI should reveal all.

[Caribou]

I've had an MRI, EEG, and a Catscan done all when I was 9 because my doctors thought I had Epilepsy, but it was just severe Tourette's.

[Rally]

the only metal i have on me is the metal wiring behind my teeth

I think you should definitely tell them this.

Funfact: The machine is cooled by liquid helium kept at at temperature of 4K. If one of these containers were to puncture, the rapid decompression would kill everyone in the room.