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I’ve had a couple...The last was for possible cancer that a surgeon was 80% sure was cancer. This before a biopsy was even performed. A lot of stress for 2 weeks for my wife before the biopsy test results showed benign...Cut the tumor off my ankle and done.
Charlie, hope everything turns out right. You’re a Fire treasure...Same for you too, Ace. Good luck with your back issues. Back problems suck! 😎
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I did one a couple years ago, I couldve swore I heard sparrows chirping inside the whole room. Kind of like when youre at Lowes and sparrows are rat-fûcking the stored bird seed.
Turns out it was just the Marinol and Remeron they had me on..Haha
I really think the chirping was the cooling system for that beast. IDFK, maybe I was really trippin hard. 😄😄
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I’ve had a half dozen or more now between two back surgeries and other issues. The two I had in a very tight tube got uncomfortable. If you touch the sides as I do in the tube type they heat you up. They had to stop and let my sides cool down where they touched. That tube machine was also the loudest ! Beats the hell out of a CAT scan with contrast ! The contrast burns and instant vomiting !
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You are the carbon they want to eliminate !
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Had a MRI just a couple weeks ago. Had headphones on with '60s music playing but darned if I heard much of it for all the different loud noises and shaking and vibrating the machine made that drowned it out. It was quite a snug fit once inside too.
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I’ve had a couple...The last was for possible cancer that a surgeon was 80% sure was cancer. This before a biopsy was even performed. A lot of stress for 2 weeks for my wife before the biopsy test results showed benign...Cut the tumor off my ankle and done.
Charlie, hope everything turns out right. You’re a Fire treasure...Same for you too, Ace. Good luck with your back issues. Back problems suck! 😎 Thanks Beaver!......I’m sure glad that your doctor was wrong. I’d have been inclined to bitch slap him for such an irresponsible diagnosis without all the information.
�Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politician.� �General George S. Patton, Jr.
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I’ve had a half dozen or more now between two back surgeries and other issues. The two I had in a very tight tube got uncomfortable. If you touch the sides as I do in the tube type they heat you up. They had to stop and let my sides cool down where they touched. That tube machine was also the loudest ! Beats the hell out of a CAT scan with contrast ! The contrast burns and instant vomiting ! Dave, I’ve had the contrast also but it didn’t make me sick. I wonder if you’re allergic to the contrast.
�Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politician.� �General George S. Patton, Jr.
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I’ve had a half dozen or more now between two back surgeries and other issues. The two I had in a very tight tube got uncomfortable. If you touch the sides as I do in the tube type they heat you up. They had to stop and let my sides cool down where they touched. That tube machine was also the loudest ! Beats the hell out of a CAT scan with contrast ! The contrast burns and instant vomiting ! Dave, I’ve had the contrast also but it didn’t make me sick. I wonder if you’re allergic to the contrast. I had a CT (with contrast) on my neck a few years ago and my doc thought she could see a blurb on my lung so she had me come back the next day for a different view. The following day I woke up with a rash from head to toe. It seems that I can tolerate a normal dose of contrast but the second dose was too much. Contrast is now the only allergy listed on my medical records.
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I've had 7 or 8 MRIs over the last few years, mostly tracking to see if I have additional or progressing lesions on my spine and brain. I'm sure I'll have at least one more before the end of the year. Being stationary for 45 minutes or so without moving anything just about drives me nuts, especially the last 5 - 10 minutes - it just plain hurts. Also have tinnitus, so the noise of the machine makes it go crazy.
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I've had a few. Once I was at the hospital waiting to get one and the guy in it took a fit,...couldn't stand being in there and they had to get him out.
I've since learned that lots of people can't stand feeling enclosed in one.
I don't feel enclosed if the top and bottom is open,..as it is in an MRI machine.
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The tech that administered mine today told me she has a couple of tap outs every day.
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I tapped out on my first.....had some in an open one and they went ok....good luck!
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Just put some ear plugs in and close your eyes. They'll probably give you some ear plugs.
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Practice for it- - - - -crawl inside a corrugated metal drain pipe and have several of your buddies beat on it with sledgehammers for a few minutes.
The last one I had was after I dumped a Honda Gold Wing at 60 MPH and got it on top of me on the way down. They checked me out nose to toes, and found a bunch of broken bones, but no other serious injuries. The E.R. doc in Fayetteville Tennessee was a good one- - - - -just finished two tours as a combat medic in the sand box! Vanderbilt University Hospital trauma center, on the other hand, is a butcher shop! I've seen MASH units that were cleaner and better-managed!
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Last time I was in for a MRI the technician was this raging homosexual with purple hair, manicured nails, a disturbingly effeminate persona and even the stereotypical lisp. I'm pretty claustrophobic to begin with and wasn't happy to be there to begin with, and this 'guy' was treating me likeI was a potential boyfriend and was a lot more touchy than what I consider to be acceptable. Anyway, he explains the procedure including words about how if it became unbearable and I needed to stop the procedure to verbalize same and in short order the machine would be shut down and I'd be taken out of the unit. Well, a few minutes go by and he's on the speaker telling me I'm doing great and we're half way through or whatever but adds the word 'sweetie' or something in addressing me. With that I clench my fists and start a hushed tirade, talking about, "how dare this fugginn ***got call me sweetie? I'm tired of this modern day pansy ass, obscene, revolting acceptance booshat. God forgive me but back in the day when there was still some semblance of standards as far as not always blasting your sexual preference into the face of every human you meet in the world and if you'd have called me or most any of the boys I grew up with, your lisp would've gotten much worse with missing teeth! I started to continue. "Why, I ..."
All of a sudden, from the speakers comes, "Uh, sir, you do realize that in order for me to hear you while inside the unit and know whether you're OK or not and might want to end the procedure, there's a live microphone in the unit, right?"
First came a feeling of horror, then came the giggles. "Of course I knew that, Sweetie!" is what I said.
Good times.
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I can’t imagine anyone, except maybe your wonderful bride, calling you “Sweetie”—least of all an MRI technician! LMAO! What I’d pay to have been a fly on that wall!
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I'm guessing he wasn't so "touchy" after your MRI Leighton?  Oh, I've had numerous, can't remember how many. Had to get one every year or so, either that or sonogram, on my kidney for a spot they noticed while checking out my back. Good thing they found it, as after 11 years or so the "spot" doubled in size and was determined to be renal cell carcinoma. Also had them for two severely torn rotator cuffs, and a few on my back to determine I have progressively worsening stenosis and a couple of bulged discs. Maybe one on a knee too? Fortunately, I'm easy for them to deal with. Not claustrophobic, can nearly fall asleep if they provide good hearing protection....................I only wish they would do it with nitrous............I love that stuff! Hope all turns out well for everyone getting one recently, in the past or in the near future. Modern technology sure saved my ass. Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
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Last time I was in for a MRI the technician was this raging homosexual with purple hair, manicured nails, a disturbingly effeminate persona and even the stereotypical lisp. I'm pretty claustrophobic to begin with and wasn't happy to be there to begin with, and this 'guy' was treating me likeI was a potential boyfriend and was a lot more touchy than what I consider to be acceptable. Anyway, he explains the procedure including words about how if it became unbearable and I needed to stop the procedure to verbalize same and in short order the machine would be shut down and I'd be taken out of the unit. Well, a few minutes go by and he's on the speaker telling me I'm doing great and we're half way through or whatever but adds the word 'sweetie' or something in addressing me. With that I clench my fists and start a hushed tirade, talking about, "how dare this fugginn ***got call me sweetie? I'm tired of this modern day pansy ass, obscene, revolting acceptance booshat. God forgive me but back in the day when there was still some semblance of standards as far as not always blasting your sexual preference into the face of every human you meet in the world and if you'd have called me or most any of the boys I grew up with, your lisp would've gotten much worse with missing teeth! I started to continue. "Why, I ..."
All of a sudden, from the speakers comes, "Uh, sir, you do realize that in order for me to hear you while inside the unit and know whether you're OK or not and might want to end the procedure, there's a live microphone in the unit, right?"
First came a feeling of horror, then came the giggles. "Of course I knew that, Sweetie!" is what I said.
Good times.
It's like we live in two different countries Gari........Our hospital has a mobile imaging unit that comes twice a week. The tech that handled my visit was 23-24 years old......about 5'4"....cute as a button.....and very very pregnant.
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Them's the good ones FG.
You can tell they did it once (unless their name is Mary maybe)
And maybe they'd enjoy doing it again.
Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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I can’t imagine anyone, except maybe your wonderful bride, calling you “Sweetie”—least of all an MRI technician! LMAO! What I’d pay to have been a fly on that wall! I take it you haven't seen me busting the kimono (not the standard petite size, mind you) and working my geisha routine?
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No Sweetie, I haven’t! 😂😂😂
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