Anybody have trouble getting an MRI.

I've had MRI's in the past and no problem. I went to have one done last week and it totally freaked my shit out. As soon as he got my inside that goddam tomb my "Oh Shit" response was screaming Get me out. Then I tried the "open MRI"machine but that was still too freaky The idea of being trapped in that thing for 1/2 hour just shorted me out. I've never been real claustophibic in the past but I totally freaked. I think they understand the freak out response cause they hauled out in a hurry. I was ready to kick that machine to pieces.

Anybody else respond like that to being in the MRI machine?

 

naw.. Ever been in a helicopter, real tight squeeze rattling all over- possibility you might die. MRI machines nothing like that.. piece of cake..

 

When I had an MRI they gave me a pair of headphone's to listen to music, so that was okay. Best way to describe it is like being alive in a coffin... with funky music.

It was more annoying than anything, just staring at a little blue dot. I liked seeing the X-Ray's after; it's kinda cool getting a chance to see your own brain.

 

Yeah I have been a lotsa tight places, Hueys in the 60's though not combat. crawl spaces under houses where I had to drug out by my feet with snakes and spiders for an aduience. Thats why this shit is weird, I've never been freaked before. somethin weird is eatin my brain lately. aw well, fuck it. I'm weird and now I've got proof. Not much comfort and won't help with a diagnois for my back but oh well.

 

I've had a few MRIs and didn't really panic. However, they told me I could get out if needed, so that put my mind at ease. I just made myself relax (pop a Kloni or 2 ) and listen to the crazy sounds inside the machine

 

never had one but the thought of it freaks me out.

 

never been in one yet

could be a weird magneto x-men type reaction when I do..Ive been told my blood iron levels are very very high compared to normal

 

Never in my 23 years of life i never had an mri

 

I've done a closed MRI but I don't know how I got thru it.

The second time they saw my face go white as they put me in and hauled me back out. I've had a couple of open MRIs but don't do real well in those either.

My friend flipped out so they had him come back on a different day and prescribed him some Valium. He did fine that way but he's a light-weight and pills really affect him.

 

the mri is the one that spins around right?

 

I'm extremely claustrophobic, which seems to have gotten worse over the years, but surprisingly I didn't do too badly when I had an MRI several years ago. I wasn't sedated at all either, and it was a closed MRI, but I think it really helped that I didn't have to have my head inside the machine. They were doing the MRI on my lower back. If they had been doing an MRI on my head, I'm not sure I could have done it. Actually, I KNOW I couldn't have.

Anyway, they also gave me headphones so that I could listen to music to help distract me. I know that towards the end I started to get antsy, fussed a littl and asked her how much longer I had to be in there, but all in all I did well considering.

 

I have to have one every three months. The only thing I think gets me through it without feeling trapped in is that I do yoga and revert to cleansing breaths and then focus on breathing only. The sound of my own breath blocks out the whir and the closed in feeling. I am not normally claustrophobic and this is one of the few times I feel trapped. The only other time is when they insist on a stress test and want to put the mask on me, that one never goes well.

 

I think they're gonna have to shoot me up with herion to get me inside that damn thing. Or maybe post mortem I could handle it.

 

That's my feeling, too. If they can't make me totally unconscious, they will never take me alive.

Even the open MRI coming up to about half-way of my face for a lumbar scan was exceedingly difficult for me.

 

Yeah that open MRI was the last one I tried. They had a nice open window to look out at while in the machine but as soon as she strapped the thing across my chest that was it. I crawled outta that thing before they come get me out. I've never been claustraphobic before but at this point in time I will avoid eleavators or any closed quarter areas. Hell I can't sit in the doctors exam room with the door closed now. Its fuckin nuts.

I've talked to some shrink friends and it really seems like a strange side affect of the SNRI anti depressant. I'm on a taper-down regimen now and will be seeing a shrink to find something that works without the weirdness. As tough as depression is for me I very well may choose the depression to the side affects.

 

I haven't had the "opportunity" to be in any claustraphobic environments since stopping my antidepressants. Maybe that will help me.

I know what you mean about the doctors office. I have been pretty anxious before in an exam room that was several stories up and on the interior of the building. When I was noticing claustaphobia at it's worst, one time even trying to drive in a parking deck was bad because of the low headway and the sense of just going more and more inside of something.

Good luck with getting better.

 

I've had one and not being able to move freaked me out. It's like the minute they tell me to be still I get twitches and itches (hahaha that rhymed, didn't even plan it!).

 

I go downhill from where they put the cage over my face and lock my head down to the table.

 

MRI means massive 'roid irritation right?

 

Yep pretty close! At least in theory. Next month I'm supposed to fly from St Louis to Providence RI. Kinda wonder how that may work....wonder if they got a wing seat and goggles