After a second relapse in 10 months, Dizzy and I were sent on our way for another MRI last week. Normally our MRI’s are about 45 minutes long (head/necky areas), but last week they decided to do the whole central nervousy system, which meant a 90 minute long scan!
Dizzy, being the excitable donkey that she is, found this a rather long time, and decided to natter non-stop through the whole thing! Which led me think about the very weird and random thoughts we have during an MRI.
Therefore, with Dizzy’s help, we have made a little list of our random musings from our scan last week. 🙂
Dizzy also spent a large amount of the time chatting away about ginger nut biscuits. 🙂
Let us know what random musings you have had during a scan or any medical procedure, as we would love to know! 🙂 xxx
If also, like Dizzy and I, you find MRI’s a little scary, please check out our Tips for Surviving an MRI here. 🙂
Here’s hoping you have good results
Thank you Beth 🙂 xxxx
The droning of the MRI actually actually almost puts me to sleep…or perhaps in a more meditative state, as I find myself mimicking the sounds it makes in my head!LOL I may be weird this way???
Hehe, I think a meditative state sounds rather nice! I can’t usually properly calm down in them, but this one went on for so long I started to get super sleepy! 🙂 xxx
So happy to hear you and Dizzy survived your MRI! Those are some interesting thoughts Dizzy had. I think the technicians might frown upon eating ginger nut biscuits during the scan, though! 😆
I had an MRI a month ago that was just shy of 2 hours long, so I feel your pain! Some thoughts I remember are:
-“With all the technology in the world, you’d think they could find a way to make this machine quieter.”
-“100 years from now, they’ll laugh at us poor saps who needed scans this long that they’ll be able to do in 5 minutes.”
-“I’m getting reallllly hot.” (I did have to press the button in between segments for the technician to come take the blanket off at one point!)
-“Oops, my face just twitched. Did I ruin the images?!”
-“Whyyyyyy is this taking so long?”
I hope your scans turn out all right! Best wishes!
2 hours is long! And you just get so stiff! But then you’re too scared to move at all in case it ruins the scan. xx I was on it this time with the temperature. I found out last time that there’s a little fan at the back, and as it was a really hot day, I asked them to put it on before the scan started. It provided a very pleasant breeze, 🙂 xx Have you had your results back yet? I hope they were ok. xxx
I tend to imagine that I am at my first MRI. It was the only MRI where the told me to bring in a relaxing CD. So I brought in my meditation CD. They said I was the first person to do that. Usually people bring in Country Western. 😂 Anyway I slept through my very long MRI I had to be woken up for my contrast. It was the best thing that ever happened to me for my 1st MRI. Now I can draw up on that and fell calm for my future MRIs.
Snap! That happened with my first one too, and was the only one it has ever happened with! That was at a different hospital to the one I go to now though, and this one can’t fit the headphones and helmet thing only my head. Just makes me wonder if my head is bigger than I think it is! 🙂 xxx
Sorry to hear about your relapse. I am just facing another MRI prior to changing medication to something stronger. I take sleepy hay fever tablets and try to decide what language the machine is speaking or what type of music the random beat could accompany. Hope it goes well and they put you on the right DMT
I’m sorry that you’ve got medication decisions coming up too. Do you know when your MRI will be? I haven’t heard of anyone taking hey fever tablets before one to make them sleepy. Do they work? And I wonder about the language of the machine too. 🙂 It got so long last week though, that by the end I had decided my favourite individual scan noises! 🙂 xxx
I am EXTREMELY claustrophobic and may have had a few complete freak outs during MRIs and meds were needed, so I don’t remember most of my (nonsensical) musings. Fortunately, no video evidence exists. 😀
Before MRIs became commonplace, I’d drive two and a half hours just to use an open machine…that really isn’t all that open and I still needed a sedative and a washcloth over my face. (Don’t even think about giving those headphones.)
My chronic illnesses are physical and joint/bone related, so I’ve actually gone into the machine backward up to my shoulders. As long as my head is outside, no freakouts. 😀
Sending good wishes and love and light that all goes well with your results. <3
I’m glad you’ve found ways of making it a little easier. And I really doubt you are the only person to have had freak outs in them. They are so claustrophobic! x I’ve heard of the open ones, but I’ve never seen one! What are they like? Do you still lie down? xxx
Yes, You still lie down on a bed and the carriage is slid into the machine, but being “open,” you can look to either side and see the room, technicians, etc. It is “easier” but the top of the machine is still very close to your face.
I’ve just looked at a picture! I still don’t think I would love it, but it does look better than the normal ones. 🙂 I’ve never come across one before though. xxx
I sang Christmas carols once. Good luck with your results
That sounds a fun thing to do! Did they make any comments on your singing afterwards? 🙂 xxxx
I had one MRI years ago and it was for my knee, so not as much of me disappeared into the machine as you two. 🙂 It was a short duration. My mom had an MRI many years ago and because the orthopedic doctor wanted the info ASAP, we went to Ohio, a neighboring state, to get it done as they promised a faster turnaround time for a summary of the results. I don’t blame you both for getting antsy – 90 minutes is a long time!
Was your knee ok? xx And my head was right at the other end, so whole body in the machine! I would rather just knee every time… 🙂 xxx
I tripped on something and fell onto the ground right on my knee – it was not smart of me and I was not paying attention. Just to about my thigh went into the MRI machine, but that was years ago and I’m sure they’ve improved it much more, even if you have to totally inside. They have an advertisement on the radio for a local MRI place … it’s a huge place with three offices and they say in the ad they can accommodate people who are very overweight and also accommodate people who are claustrophobic as well. I think they play music for them while the MRI is being done.
There are open MRI machines too, so maybe they have one of those! It still have the top part, but is open at the sides. 🙂 xxxx
That’s better, especially if you feel claustrophobic and if you’re in for a while … I think you said 90 minutes for you. Hang in there Heather. {{{ }}}
Brilliant! I always try to imagine the MRI noise as some weird new techno/electronic song. Then I try and make up words to it!
Hehe, is does work for keeping me amused too! 🙂 xxx