Posted on 05/30/2017 4:20:35 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
Yes. The noises are the worst.
I’ve heard those are petty new.
Claustrophobia is not usually a problem for me so I opened my eyes for a moment.
I spent the rest of the time with them squeezed shut reciting Psalm 121 until the ordeal was over.
Actually the open MRI machines are plenty accurate enough.
Much better than not being able to get a diagnostic MRI because you can’t stand the regular machines.
Never knee I had it. Eye opening. Scared of heights, yes. Never knew about this.
5-6 mg of klonazapam and you could face a firing squad or gallows without anxiety
Ask for an open machine.
I’m just trying to help because I had a panic attack over it. Pulled thru today with sedatives and homeopathy.
I don’t think it’s severe but def some anxiety disorders on this thread
Who many are women.....I’ve found after sixty orbits that women and anxiety is probably 4-500% higher incidence than men
I’m 6’5” and 240 and tube MRIs are way tight for me and kill my neck which won’t lie flat
But intense psychedelic drug use early 70s trained me to extinguish panic when it rises over about anything
Suppress a bad trip from getting its wings
And I’ve had two open hearts and a near death pacemaker episode and I’ve been shot etc
But I understand panic
It’s rough and those prone should for sure take meds....any benzo will do
Hear ya! After being stuck in a culvert for a few hours in W Germany during a rain storm and then being suspended upside down in a mostly destroyed RG 31 after an IED strike for a while while the convoy secured the AO, the MRI isn’t so bad. It won’t normally hurt you, they have nice techs, they give you music and an ejection button....and it is totally elective.
Yeah my wife. Never used to bother her but she got Stage IV colon cancer and had a ton of procedures.
Ever since then she has to be sedated to sit still in an MRI. She also has problems with getting her hair done and whatnot.
I don’t like but can manage to confining, but my last shoulder MRI lasted 35 minutes and was hot and stuffy. I was pissed, they could have blown in some air and they damn sure should have warned me it would take that long.
the day that I had my first MRI I had been to my bosses house who was putting in an in ground pool. With that fresh on my mind I got into that loud, obnoxious machine. The clanging and banging and purring and hissing began to get to me so I assigned each noise a tool and built my own pool in my head. It got me through.
By my third MRI I simply don’t open my eyes.
Valium. I am claustrophobic. The one time they didn’t give me enough Valium was the only time in my life that I have had a full on panic attack. It was in the hospital and the had me hooked up to the EKG anyway ... otherwise I never would have believed that I wasn’t having a heart attack.
I have had several MRIs through the years due to my knees and had one that diagnosed a compressed disc, and have never had an issue. I just don't get claustrophobic. Maybe that is why I could pull missile duty in those smallish underground launch capsules for ten years.
My last MRI was the final prior to my knee replacements and I had just found a way to really injure my back and that darned disc. I was in real pain.
They put a pillow or something under my knees and then shoved me in part way. The angle made my back pain so bad I am still not sure to this day how I stayed that still while they finished. I counted every second on that timer display on the machine.
Me too! The longer it takes, the more it FEELS like they are sucking the lifeblood out of me. I take my husband along in with me, as the 'official distractor'. Not that it helps with that feeling, but at least he makes sure I don't try to leave before I can be steady standing up...
Open MRI
Thanks - I don’t know if I will be able to SMELL anything during the test though.
It’s not that it’s a painful thing, and it should take less than fifteen minutes, but it is a test that makes me feel freaked out about having, LOL.
I am taking along a small picture of my youngest son, were he is looking sternly at the camera. I will put a thought bubble on it that says, “Mom, relax. You’ll be fine”. And I will take plenty of Valium.
I have a driver.
After I sober up I will have a big milkshake from Arby’s.
I kept my eyes closed the whole time. The hospital had Mozart on the headphones so I was fine.
No probs with MRIs, but had some issues with a couple of MREs, back in the day ;^)
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