alt.social-security-disability

Yes those open MRI's are real nice I have seen them just had one last
week altho I have been in the older model in 1998 I had 2 MRI and it was
a closed one like a tunel had the earphones like you mentioned
This last one that I just had it did not have earphones.. they just gave
me earplugs..
did not matter I just wanted to get it over with..
"Gi

Group: Date: Sat, Sep 8, 2007, 12:08am
(CDT+5) From: nodoby@ (Pop`)
Dr Feelgood WA wrote:
"M" wrote in message
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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.
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Anyway 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,
Pop`