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Thamlet
10-01-2002, 08:42 AM
I assume you can you sleep during an MRI? Especially since its going to take 3 hours?!?!??! :confused: :eek: Anyways, or can you read a book? (Or use a laptop to access BBS??) :p jk This will be an MRI from the knees down so I guess just the lower body will be enclosed? Oh well, just wondering. :)

ksjayhawkfan
10-01-2002, 08:46 AM
Well when I had my MRI I was all enclosed:eek: Theres no room to read and it was really noisy but I did get a nap in. Good luck to you:)

ckerr4
10-01-2002, 08:49 AM
When I had mine, it was from the waist up (checkin my head, lol), so only my legs were sticking out - I didn't have enough room to read, but I did drift off a little. There are all these funny noises, so until you get use to those, you might not be able to sleep. But the tech was really nice and let me pick a radio station so I could listen to some music during the test.

heymom
10-01-2002, 09:01 AM
I had an MRI of my knee and I tok my book and read most of it while in the machine .I was only in from about my thighs down .I had to hold my book up though and my arms got a little sore from it .

MommyG3
10-01-2002, 10:18 AM
Ya'll are scaring me. I am going to a Neurologist in November and I will probably have an MRI done on my brain (like I really have one). I am clausterphobic (sp).

littlebell
10-01-2002, 10:27 AM
When you have an mri you have to take every thing out of your pockets no jewery no metal of any kind it is very loud they will give you ear plugs to wear if you don't bring your own lol I had my own.no moving and if you have an mri of your brain they put your head where it can not move and if you have to cough or sneeze you have a call botton to tell them you have to stay still during the time the machine is running also they will give you an iv of dye i hope this helps if there is anything else you need to know just ask you know how to reach me Thamlet

Thamlet
10-01-2002, 10:34 AM
Originally posted by littlebell
also they will give you an iv of dye

What?? :confused: I hate IV's!!! Maybe since its just my legs I wont need one? The message said to expect to be there about three hours, an hour and 1/2 for each leg. I think I'll take some sleeping pills; I dont care for enclosed spaces. :p

littlebell
10-01-2002, 11:20 AM
they will need to see how your blood is going maybe you can drink the dye but i don't think soo and by the way it taste like chalk

~MK~
10-01-2002, 11:36 AM
They put a needle in a vein in your foot to inject the dye.

schsa
10-01-2002, 12:44 PM
If you are not real thrilled about being enclosed ask for a valium and take it about 30 minutes before they start. Works really well.

intrigued
10-01-2002, 01:04 PM
I had an MRI done on my knee and there were no dyes or I.V.s involved at all. You can read a book or they might have headphones you can put on so that you can listen to music. I can't believe it's going to take 3 hours. Mine only took about 45 minutes.

ckerr4
10-01-2002, 01:41 PM
MommyG3, I had mine done for migraines, and it was just my head - the tunnel went just over my head and chest; I wasn't sure if I would be bothered by it (didn't know if I was clausterphobic), but it turns out i wasn't. I wasn't too bad, becuase the rest of your body is free. You do have to stay still, but they ask if enclosed spaces bother you, so I imagine they have some sort of plan for people who are bothered by closed-in spaces - if they don't ask you, then you ask them!!

littlebell
10-01-2002, 02:45 PM
When you go take someone with you to drive home they can give you something at the hospital to calm you down but need a driver

Thamlet
10-01-2002, 03:26 PM
Originally posted by intrigued
I had an MRI done on my knee and there were no dyes or I.V.s involved at all. You can read a book or they might have headphones you can put on so that you can listen to music. I can't believe it's going to take 3 hours. Mine only took about 45 minutes.


They are going to do each leg separately, supposedly an hour and 1/2 for each. I hope it doesnt take that long but the lady on the phone said the doctor ordered extensive slides (i think that was the term). Thanks for all the replies! :) I told my husband about the iv, and he knows how I am, so he's promised extra T.L.C. on Thursday. :p

nanajoanie
10-01-2002, 06:14 PM
Hubby just had an MRI/PetScan about a month ago. He was told he could nap in the "cacoon" but he said it sounded like someone dumped a bag of marbles in the washing machine. Terrible noise. It took him 55 mins. He hated it. But it did pinpoint the lung cancer. So it is a pretty good machine I guess:)

missymommy
10-01-2002, 08:47 PM
I have only ever had my back done, so I go the whole way in. Or I did for the first 3 the ones after that have been in an open(sorta) MRI. With the open MRI my feet went in first and my head stayed out.
I think they have better open ones depending where you go. If you get something to relax you make sure they give you a few. My first one they gave me one pill.....directions take so long before (can't remember) and if it doesn't work take another. There was only one :eek:

For me they do one without dye and then do a second with dye to see a contrast? Has to do with scar tissue.


Good luck and I hope they find what is wrong.

MistyWolf
10-01-2002, 09:44 PM
I have had two .. first was a brain MRI and the first part was w/out dye and the 2nd part was with dye and it was a bi$%h .. I had to lay totally still and that killed my back .. plus it was so noisy .. yes they gave me ear plugs, but I had a migraine to begin with and it sounded like a jack-hammer going off! For this one I was only in from about the shoulders (or chest) up.

The 2nd one was on the spine so I was in from the thighs up and they gave me Adavan (sp) to calm me, which did help some, but shortly after they injected the dye for the 2nd half, I had to be sick so I had to have them stop. I think it was a combination of the adavan and the dye that didn't quite agree in my system.

Good luck and I hope all goes well. My hubby did have an MRI done on his knee before surgery and they gave him headphones with music (we didn't have ours done at the same place) and I don't believe, but am not sure that he had to have any injections.

onlinemom
10-02-2002, 11:21 AM
Wow, if I had read some of these posts, I'm not sure I would have gone. I had an MRI of my back a couple months ago, and all but my head was in the chamber. I got to choose a CD to listen to, and the machine was noisy, but not so noisy I needed earplugs. It lasted about 45 minutes, and there was no iv, no dye, no drugs, no anything. The worst part for me was laying still for 45 minutes (with short breaks), but since my back was sore it was hard to lay there.

I would certainly call and ask ahead of time what you should expect, whether there will be an iv/dye, etc. Hope this helps!