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Major magnets, or fun with an MRI machine

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All of us that work on cars should be aware that if you ever need an MRI you should have X Rays of you eyes (orbits). Any tiny metal fragment that may have gotten into your eye will come out violently when you get near the machine. The tech usually asks if you may have had anything in your eye.
 
I had an MRI about a month ago and I first had to go for X-rays of my orbits to be sure no steel was still in my eyes due to an accident years ago.
 
No MRI if you have a stint anywhere. The wife has one and was told never let them do an MRI! She should wear a bracelet or ID tag, but won't! PJ
 
I had an MRI when I injured my shoulder a couple of years ago. I never thought I was claustrophobic - until I got in that machine!
 
I had an MRI for back problems a few years ago. I am pretty much a Type B personality and like John and Basil, I never thought of myself as claustrophobic. Until that day! And yes....noisy!

I am sure I've had little bits of metal stuck in me over the years, and I would almost guess some of it is still there.....but I do not think they asked about that. Lucky I guess.
 
I believe the "noise" is from stepping motors that move around the circumference of the tube.
No problem for me being inside the "torpedo tube".
 
I once had a body scan, which was far more claustrophobic to me than the MRI tube. That's where they put the imaging machine directly on top of you.
 
Gliderman8 said:
I believe the "noise" is from stepping motors that move around the circumference of the tube.
No problem for me being inside the "torpedo tube".
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Lucky you! I enjoyed (!) two MRI sessions on my left arm last year. Required lying face up for 45 minutes with my left arm bent backwards to fit into the tube. Then flipped to prone position, with arm in the same position. And of course, about five minutes into that second session ... my morning coffee needed an exit.

Tech ran over to free me, but my arm was completely asleep (numb) from being twisted backwards, and I couldn't push myself off the table.

Oh joy.
 
I worked inside a Nuclear power house a few times as we had a contract to do some steel work in the coolant pump section. We had to lay down and go through a machine that checked a whole body count for radiation once a week, similar to a MRI machine, just smaller and not noisy . Had to wear a dosimeter and a film badge all the time, which was checked twice a day. I guess you can get used to anything if you have to do it often enough. PJ
 
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