MRI scans

[mike os]

always... i have several bits of shrapnel. they wont scan me below the neck

 

[roofman]

Every time i go in them which up till end of last year was every 12 weeks i always think "if there was a fire now" the inside diameter seems to go smaller and the scan seems longer

 

[500e]

Music is ok but machine gun noise is still there, last one the guy before me was claustrophobic been 5 times never they got him in the tube

 

[WorkshopChris]

MRI Scanners are larger now. The first one I was in had my nose nearly touching the top of the tunnel. Very unnerving. And the noise was almost deafening. No sleeping for me. My last one. I had my head strapped down. While they showed me images through those goggles that the youngsters wear to play games. And I had to answer questions all the time. Very wierd.

The scanner at Southend is tiny, they are only doing my knee, but at that point, my shoulders are pressed hard against the front of the machine, its as far as it can go before I get wedged.
I know a few people who have had to forgo the scan and get a booking with a bigger machine.
I always wonder how much time/money is wasted, would it be to easy to give each referring doctor a ring or cardboard cutout to make sure the patient will fit the machine.
The scanner at Stanmore in London I go to is much bigger and I have nearly fallen asleep in that one.

 

[brightspark]

the one I went in me shoulders were catching god help some fat b err person they would need rent a tent

 

[pedrobedro]

always... i have several bits of shrapnel. they wont scan me below the neck

You're only OK for a check up from the neck up then

 

[fixerupper]

I've never had an MRI...

 

[roofman]

I've never had an MRI...

Count your lucky stars mate and continue to cross old ladys over roads early in my Cancer discovery in 2015 i had an MRI done private at Murryfield which used to be called Buppa and it cost me nearly a Thousand pounds

 

[mike os]

You're only OK for a check up from the neck up then

Already know the condition of that

 

[Bryan Williams]

I have had a few MRI, I have a file with my medical records what informs the MRI team about what is left in my what is metal and not fillings.

It is fun.
I fall asleep now in the scanner.

Wow, I'm worried about a bit of steel dust and you've got a file.