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Originally Posted by javadog
I'm surprised they let him in the waiting area with that much metal moving around. Back in the day when I built MRI rooms and such, I remember the engineers looking hard at ANY metal that moved in the area. Elevator counterweights from 50 yards away got a look....
As for the claustrophobia thing, I'm happy I've never had an MRI. I was involved with the earliest MRI's back when they were still experimental. I think I worked on the 4th one ever installed in the US. You have no idea what a small bore really looked like. My shoulders were to big to even go into the hole. I wish I had a picture of it... Decommissioned it (finally!) in the early 90's, sold it for $10k to a company to use it in a veterinary practice. Had to crane it out through a second story glass wall. Fun times.
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I had a shoulder MRI in 2006ish in Watertown NY. So very small town that is surrounded by farm communities.
The tube was just large enough to fit in and super slow. Back then I was invincible and was able to lay in the thing for a long time on a blown out shoulder that was very painful. Between scans, they pulled me out (I was head first) in order to inject contrast. I had no idea and when they told me what was about to happen and I saw the 3 feet needle I put a stop to it. I was in so much pain from laying on my shoulder that no way could I do it any longer.
Bonus: when I told the surgeon, he was surprised that they wanted to add contrast since he hadn't ordered it. Then he told me that contrast wouldn't have helped him see any better than just the regular MRI.