Posted on 03/19/2005 6:26:21 PM PST by Servant of the 9
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OMG...if that happened to you, you have my sympathy.
I hate to say this but I fall asleep during MRIs.
During my second one, I told the tech to stop waking me up just to inform me that the "sounds" were going to change.
The "open" MRIs are what bug me.
It hovers right over my eyes and I can't see much but I *can* see just enough to keep *trying* to see past the bottom of that stupid plastic helmet thingy.
*That* made me claustrophobic whereas the "tube" never did.
There isn't such a thing as one friend too many.
Mine were scheduled for 7:15am. I dragged feet into the clinic because I didn't get much sleep the night before wondering how things would turn out.
MRI specialist told me to lay on the bed and relax, so I did, and took a catnap for about an hour. I couldn't hear the loud noise it made, but I could feel the vibrations.
Where did you get it and how do you know it is authentic?
Darkchylde can relate! :)
You can say that again. The IV sux and the stuff they put in there for contrast on the images brings a warming sensation to your crotch and you feel like you pissed yourself!
They put the halo over my head, and I had to poke what appeared to look and feel like blue clay into my ears. The halo didn't bother me. I could have done without the clay, since I can't hear without hearing aids anyway. LOL
In children with progressive an intractable seizures, they have been doing hemispherectomys.
My body just felt like it was vibrating afterward. LOL I fell asleep during my MRI scan. They had me all the way inside the tube with a little yellow night light at the end.
You need more than one CT slice to make a diagnoses. I see CT films daily and they must be read in relation to each other. The images on the slices before and after this one would reveal the whole picture.
eh...
being incorrectly slapped into a cancer "exit lounge" is worse.
being correctly slapped into one would be worse yet.
Thanks for that link to the court documents. That clarified for me more than anything else that Terri should be allowed to die in peace. Never knew there was a battle for the original settlement. that court document seemed to be pretty thorough.
Yes, apparantly "they" didn't do all those things.
normally I am pretty claustrophobic, but at the time I was too scared over more important concerns for it to bother me.
damned army docs... just because I decked one when he shone a light in my eye without waking me up... they put all those symptoms together and consulted their little pamphlets and said: "AHA! Brain tumor, inoperable, FTD"
damned Army docs... didn't even read my medical records. If they had, they'd have seen I'd been diagnosed as a severe photophobe, and the whole "he's FTD with a brain tumor" episode would never have happened.
hell... they could have asked ME, the PATIENT, whether I had ever noticed having a strong and violent aversion to strong light. sheesh.
turned out to be viral labyrinthitis.
damned army docs...
didn't like the barium, eh?
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No doubt they would be if they showed up in Judge Greer's court.
Thank God it wasn't a tumor!
[damned army docs, indeed..I once had to suffer -navy- docs]...;))
Darkchylde, Darksheares sister, had an MRI for headaches during a headache.
yeah, it is a whole lotta fun.
at least she could take proper analgesics.
all the Army would let me take was Motrin.
geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh!
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