So I just got home from my MRI.

[achtung_circus]

I've had a few but for some reason this one freaked me out. I came within a hair of using the panic button. I had never understood why some people needed sedation for an MRI- now I do.

I felt like I was being microwaved and that my muscles were vibrating in tune with the machine.

I relaxed, breathed deeply and went to a happy place and muddled through but it was a very near thing.

Thank you for your kind attention.:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear achtung_circus!

I am happy to hear that you made it through, and successfully!

I hope that it will provide the answers you and your doctors are looking for...

:hug:

[achtung_circus]

2. Isn't life fun?

the curve balls make us realize how much we need each other.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. They sure do, sweetie...

Needing people is a big part of being human...:hug:

[Inchworm]

4. All is well?

I'm a lil happy, but I'm also curious

:hi:

[achtung_circus]

6. We hope so.

I have had epilepsy for 43 years and my neurologist decided to monkey with my medication. That caused a seizure and we're getting me "normal" again.

I thought normal was a setting on the dishwasher.

[Mojorabbit]

5. I had one two weeks ago

I have terrible claustrophobia and this was a closed machine. They had to give me 10 mg of valium before they strapped my head down. I kept my eyes squeezed shut. I am good for another six months.:)

[achtung_circus]

7. My happy place was brunette.

Hey, whatever works, right?

[Lyric]

8. I've had one MRI

It was an MRI of my head, so I had to have that awful head-stabilizer contraption that completely immobilized my head and neck. I got through it by closing my eyes and counting the seconds of each minute by imaging a big digital clock in my head. It was enough of a distraction to get my mind off of it, and the time went by a lot faster.

[Beerboy]

9. Hope everything is way cool.

As for myself, I prefer to meet Death crushed in a cage after a race, just off Dead Man's Curve! :hi:

[applegrove]

10. Good luck with the results.

[Poiuyt]

11. I took my mother to have an MRI once

It was becoming pretty apparent that Alzheimer's was taking root on her so they doctor ordered an MRI. I was sitting in the waiting room when the tech brought her back. She glared at me and said, "Don't you ever do that to me again." I looked up at the tech but he just shrugged his shoulders and said, "Sorry about that," and left. I never did figure out what caused the consternation.

[flamingyouth]

12. That happened to me during my last MRI.

It was on my lumbar spine and it actually *hurt.* Now, I've been scanned and x-rayed more times than I can count and that was a first - weird.

Anyway, glad it's over. Hope you don't have to wait too long for your results. :hi:

[Capn Sunshine]

13. You did better than me

I can't do those things. They'll have to knock me out I never realized I had an aversion until I lay on the cart thingie that slides in the tube. It's PTSD they told me