alt.social-security-disability

Dr Feelgood WA wrote:
> "M" wrote in message
> news:n4b3e3purheiu1eb3lt1k1s5i06g67kgkl@ ...
>> I had an MRI this past February. The cost for around here came to
>> $3,500 for getting me out in a snowstorm (wheel chair and all)
>> getting
>> up on a very skinny cold table (great if you weigh 88 lbs soaking
>> wet)
>> slidding me into a very noisy machine, running the first seriesod
>> tests, injecting dye (tasted like licking a metal can, YUCK!!!),
>> running the repeat tests wth dye, checking to be sure we did not
>> have
>> repeat any of the tests, getting off the table & back into my chair.
>> Oh and one of the techs wheeled me out to the waiting room. Total
>> time
>> about 30 minutes, not counting the struggle getting on and off the
>> table and getting there in the first place.
>>
>> Hopes this answers your question.
>>
>> Michele
>
>
> I know what you mean about that skinny ice machine of a table and the
> tiny opening in that noisy machine. I'm not morbidly obese or even
> close to being such at 220 & 6 ft. but my shoulders are very wide and
> even going in head first at an angle half off the table with 2 aides
> trying to work my body angle for an hour they gave up and ended up
> doing my head and then turning me around and running me in and out to
> get images of as much of me as possible. ( missed 3 vertebra ) My next
> visit they had a new larger MRI machine I fit in with ease and a
> spanking new "open" MRI machine in another room.
>
> Mike

Those "open" MRI machines are great; I had my first experience with one a
couple months ago. The table had a nice cozy flannel-like covering and the
only thing I could find worse than the enclosed ones was more external
ambient noise kept me from hearing the music in the headphones as well as
the other ones. Certainly a heckova NBD and a real stretch to make
anything negative out of! In my case, I mean. I know it can be torture for
some no matter how it's done. I'm 6'5" and 330 lbs so I pretty well fill up
any of them.
Anyway you look at it, it's always tough to try to lay there still for 45
minutes though, so anyone going thru it gets my sympathy for that if nothing
else. I use self-hypnosis to get thru it; helps a lot but hurts like hell
when it's over and you try to move!

Cheers,

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