Mri

[garry]

please share ur recent MRI scans. it will help us curb fears and let us understand our relative status. Many of us get fearful holding our MRI scans. below is my recent scan . please also refer ur medical stats as in MRI report.

[dahliafaolan]

Question: How often do the rest of you get MRIs? I haven't had an MRI since I was 12 years old. The doctors say that it's too dangerous for me to get one with the rods in my back.

[angel]

I don't think i have ever had one. I know i have had CT scans but don't remember ever having an MRI.
My son has had one every year since he was born.

Angel

[Summer25]

Question: How often do the rest of you get MRIs? I haven't had an MRI since I was 12 years old. The doctors say that it's too dangerous for me to get one with the rods in my back.

I had one last year, but haven't had one since I was 18. I also have rods in my back.

[garry]

ya , i understand that MRI is not possible for people with metal implants. MRI is basically Magnetic Resonance Imaging. They expose you to very high magnetic field. The magnetic field is so high that if u place oxygen cylinder besides an MRI machine, it will pull the cylinder inside its cavity. So if a person with implant is exposed to this field. the metal inside the body will be pulled towards the centre of field and rupture the organs, or u may be lifted up and down, right and left inside the machine randomly. basically they pass variuos frequencies of the magnetic field. each tissue corresponds to a particular field and so we have a large number of exposures on a single sheet of MRI. The best one is chosen for diagonosis.

[Gymp]

The doctors say that it's too dangerous for me to get one with the rods in my back.

That's the same for me,I was told that because my one harrington rod in my back is broke in two,it may very well be pulled out with an mri.Ya know,I actually feel the rod rattling around inside me when I twist my back side to side or bend over,it's weird!

Gymp

[garry]

how did the rod break gymp?

[Lifeisgood]

I just had a MRI yesterday. My last one was 8 years ago. I see my neurologist and get the results on Monday. I am not overly concerned, because he thought that my decrease in bladder function might be related to the repeated UTI's. I am curious to see how this MRI compares to my last. The one before that was in 1997.

[Gymp]

how did the rod break gymp?

Hi Garry,Believe it or not the rod broke while I rolled over in bed.I have led a sort of rough and tumble life,I've been in a few automobile accidents,and two bicycle accidents.With both bicycle accidents I ended up in intensive care for a few days each with broken bones.In the auto accidents I got hurt but never did get checked out.The orthopedic specialist I was sent to about the broken rod figures that in one of my many tumbles/accidents I had cracked the rod and the rolling over in bed was the last straw so to speak,where it finally snapped.That rod was in me for over 20 years before it broke.

Gymp

[Lifeisgood]

Unfortunately, after looking at my MRI, my neurologist was less encouraged about my change in bladder function being due to the repeated UTI's and has referred me to see a neurosurgeon for a more comprehensive work up. Once again, it showed my spine has tethered (that is "old" news to me) and the cord is stretched to S1. However, the way the radiologist worded the report was that I have a meningocele throughout much of my sacrum. Those words have never been used in mr MRI reports before, although previous reports have referred to post-surgical changes in that area. So I am confused and waiting. I see the neurosurgeon who treated me since I was 9 back in CT on Oct 12, and will get a 2nd opinion from a neurosurgeon here in Boston the week after that. And I have another UTI. My 5th since July. Fun. :(

[smoop]

Lifeisgood... who are you seeing in CT? Dr. Duncan at Yale?

[Lifeisgood]

No, I see Dr. Patrick Mastroianni in Bridgeport. He has treated me for over 21 years, so I definitely trust him. He used to be affiliated with Yale when I was a kid but is now at Griffin Hospital in Derby and St. Vincent's in Bridgeport.

[LillyPie]

Lilly had and MRI done in July... she hadnt had one since she was born. Her neurosurgeon told me that they are not good to have to often if you have a shunt because the shunt is made with little magnets and that every time a MRI is done it wears down the magnets which can cause shunt malfunction... Nobody mentioned on this thread yet about making sure that after an MRI to have the magnet that controls the amount of cerebral spinal fluid adjusted back to its original setting.. In fact the reason her MRI was done was because the amount of CSF that was being drained was at the level of an adults... for who knows how long... but before they adjusted it they wanted to look at her ventricles to see how they were doing at that level.. and of course her ventricles were small... so they adjusted it as soon as she was done with the MRI. She used to have what I thought were absence seizures that seemed to have gone away since...

[Mustang Sal]

I've had two MRIs this year, and I have metal implants in my spine, so it's not true that people with screws and rods etc can't have MRIs! I had no ill effects whatsoever, except being in pain after all that time trying to lay still! The health questionnaire I had to fill out beforehand detailed exclusions, and these included people with shunts, pacemakers, previous shrapnel injuries etc - it explicitly said that anyone with metal joint replacements, plates, rods or screws do not need to worry about having an MRI, provided they were fitted over 6 weeks before.

Anyway, while we're talking about MRIs, here's a snap of one of mine (this was the least distorted of the sagittal images - the metal caused a lot of 'black holes' and dragging of the image, hence why the cause of my pain was not identifiable from MRI alone).

http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo343/sallyzippy/4.jpg

Oh, and here's a recent xray thrown in for good measure :)

http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo343/sallyzippy/image-1.jpg

[Emm]

Mustang Sal, was very interested in the exray you posted.I see that your spine is in quite poor shape, mine is nothing as near to that. Also the fact that you live in my area. Who do you actualy see and at what hospital? Made me feel quite hopeful at getting something done as I'm in such a lot of pain most of the time.

[Mustang Sal]

Mustang Sal, was very interested in the exray you posted.I see that your spine is in quite poor shape, mine is nothing as near to that. Also the fact that you live in my area. Who do you actualy see and at what hospital? Made me feel quite hopeful at getting something done as I'm in such a lot of pain most of the time.


I see Mr Crawford at thr Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (well, supposedly, but the orthopaedic department seems to have lost me in their rubbish system - my GP is currently trying to chase them up), but there are two other spine surgeons there - Mr Luchman and Mr Rai.

You really need to let your GP know how much pain you're in, and that you think you need to be checked out by a specialist. Let us know how you get on!

[Emm]

I see Mr Crawford at thr Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (well, supposedly, but the orthopaedic department seems to have lost me in their rubbish system - my GP is currently trying to chase them up), but there are two other spine surgeons there - Mr Luchman and Mr Rai.

You really need to let your GP know how much pain you're in, and that you think you need to be checked out by a specialist. Let us know how you get on!

Thanks for your interest and it certainly is making me more positive about asking my gp. I sound like a right whimp but when tou constantly get the old obese topic brought up and me being very sensitive about it anyway, it's very daunting to me!
Am feeling a bit better today, thankgoodness, have had a right awful couple of days. Never know what I'm going to face from one day to the next. It's only the fact that having three children a drastic action, (read between the lines) would leave such a stigma for them to deal with. - having seen tv documentaries about this subject.:scream: