hospital appointment on a saturday

peachyprice

Oh my, is anyone else's heart racing just reading this?

Good luck to you all with your MRI's, I have to say, I would be a complete wuss and need doping up to the eyeballs to get me in one.

lostinrates

peachyprice wrote: »

Oh my, is anyone else's heart racing just reading this?

Good luck to you all with your MRI's, I have to say, I would be a complete wuss and need doping up to the eyeballs to get me in one.

It doesn't hurt. The thing is its stressful because of the reason you have to have it and because it's a bit claustrophobic.

Thinking positively, not claustrophobic but snug:). You can pretend its. Something from science fiction .

aliasojo

lostinrates wrote: »

You can pretend its. Something from science fiction .

Anything science fiction I know about usually has an alien in it. :rotfl:

Thanks. Not. :rotfl:


One of my irrational fears in life is getting buried alive. I'm kinda thinking this might give me similar feelings.

I shall shut up now. Needs must and all that.:)

peachyprice

lostinrates wrote: »

It doesn't hurt. The thing is its stressful because of the reason you have to have it and because it's a bit claustrophobic.

Thinking positively, not claustrophobic but snug:). You can pretend its. Something from science fiction .

This is the lady whose husband has never seen her move so fast as when she didn't think it through before going into the Paris catacombs

lostinrates

aliasojo wrote: »

Anything science fiction I know about usually has an alien in it. :rotfl:

Thanks. Not. :rotfl:


One of my irrational fears in life is getting buried alive. I'm kinda thinking this might give me similar feelings.

I shall shut up now. Needs must and all that.:)

No, no. Think so ething they heal you with in star trek. Nothing scary.

It's not dark in there, so not like being buried, promise. Just try and imagine something that gets you through it. After all. Not much else you can do there...think or imagine and thinking is dangerous:D

lostinrates

peachyprice wrote: »

This is the lady whose husband has never seen her move so fast as when she didn't think it through before going into the Paris catacombs

But, you would find a way to cope if you needed to do this. It's stressful, and I was surprised how in pieces I was, but it ha to be done. Staying positive helps.

Errata

aliasojo wrote: »

I don't want mirrors. I don't want to see people either. My eyes will be firmly shut the whole time and should they peep open for a second, the last thing I want to see is someone staring back at me. :rotfl:

Thanks.

If you close your eyes and your MRI scan lasts as long as mine did, you'll be asleep and snoring long before it's over.

Person_one

aliasojo wrote: »

I'm surprised at that P_o, all the advice stuff I've read says not to wear jeans or less obvious things like an underwired bra. Not that that would be much of an issue for custardy.

I've just committed the cardinal sin of googling symptoms and and I think I now realise why the consultant asked certain things and why he said he wanted to rule something out as well as perhaps ruling something in, via the MRI and other thing I can't remember the name of.

I'm hoping I'm wrong.

I wish I could just stay off the internet. :rotfl:

Please try not to do this to yourself. It does no good, and Dr Google is the world's most pessimistic diagnostician. Pretty much every symptom you can google will have a load of results telling you you're going to die a horrible death in a week, even if you've just got a cold!

MRIs are brilliant, they show every little thing in minute detail, so whatever is wrong (or not) will be found (or not) and you can deal with it then, when you have facts in your hands.

Don't google!

custardy

Person_one wrote: »

Please try not to do this to yourself. It does no good, and Dr Google is the world's most pessimistic diagnostician. Pretty much every symptom you can google will have a load of results telling you you're going to die a horrible death in a week, even if you've just got a cold!

MRIs are brilliant, they show every little thing in minute detail, so whatever is wrong (or not) will be found (or not) and you can deal with it then, when you have facts in your hands.

Don't google!

totally agree
I had massive chest/arm pain at one time
thought I was on deaths door according to google
ended up being down to an old chest cartilage injury :cool:
downside being I now have to declare all the heart tests on life insurance applications

System

I hope it all went ok for you aliasojo Got a few weeks yet till I have mine. Looking forward to getting it over with, to be honest. Sometimes the dread is worse than the deed, as they say, but I can't help thinking about the MRI and wondering what it's going to be like this time.