MRIs, CT scans, Xrays, etc.

thefreakyblueman · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:51 am

Just a pre-note: Sorry if this thread is useless, and as a response to if it's locked, "Consarnit!"

I'm going in to get an MRI tomorrow, and just wanted to know, has anyone else had a scanning procedure done before? Mine is actually just to see if I have any cranial irregularities, and if they've been causing the headaches that I've been having.

InterruptorJones · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:50 am

Sometimes people worry too much about their threads. You posted a thread about something you want to talk about that hasn't been discussed before, and you posted it in the Off-subject Discussion forum where it belongs. What could be wrong with that?

Anyway, I haven't had any such procedure (I had some back x-rays back when I was a tween and fell out of a tree -- "whoops, there goes your L-2 vertebra!"), but that's all. But I wish you the best of luck and I hope your skull isn't deformed. Or that your skull is deformed and they can correct it easily and your headaches go away. Whichever you prefer.

StrongCanada · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:02 am

Hey TFBM - I hope everything comes out okay! Let us know, alright?

Oh - I've never broken anything *knocks on wood*. The only X-rays I've had were for my teeth. *Flashes brilliant Crest-loving smile*

TheNintenGenius · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:19 am

I've only ever been X-rayed, and that was when I fractured my left wrist, so I wouldn't know how an MRI would turn out.

As for worrying about the thread being closed, I think it was fairly legtimate for him to worry, given the regularity with which threads get pounced with "LOCK THIS PLZ" messages these days.

ModestlyHotGirl · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2005 1:31 pm

I've never had an MRI, but on Tuesday I took part in an experiment one of the grad students in the Psych department was doing. They hooked me up to an EEG and I wore this headband-type thing that sent weak electromagnetic pulses into my brain. It was kinda weird - I felt like I was falling, then felt like someone was poking me in the head, and that my head was turning to the left even though I didn't move. Anydangway, I've suffered no ill effects, and though I know that the magnetic fields involved in an MRI aren't the same, 40 mins of what they did to me was pretty cool, actually.
So I wouldn't worry, and I hope all goes well for you.

StrongRad · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:11 pm

The only thing to worry about is if you're claustrophobic and you aren't in an "Open" MRI machine. I know I was actually wondering if I was gonna fit in the tube, which is sad, cus I'm not really that big (5'11", 180LBS). I'm guessing/hoping that they stuck me in a kid's machine or something, cus I don't know how anyone any bigger than me would fit.

The procedure itsself isn't too bad, I was a little warm, could have used a little fan or something, but that was about the worst part.

ramrod · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:45 pm

I've had a couple MRI's for a few concussions I had from football. Word of advice, try not to fall asleep. The doctors really don't like that. And a few of them might wake you up in a quite hilarious and mean way.

thefreakyblueman · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2005 10:22 pm

Well, I got the report back, and the film, and my brain is officially "Unremarkable". I took a digital picture for funsies--to see it, go here.

ramrod · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2005 10:55 pm

I assume that good, right? Or is that bad? If it is bad, then get well soon.

thefreakyblueman · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:03 pm

ramrod wrote:

I assume that good, right? Or is that bad? If it is bad, then get well soon.

It's good. It just means that my brain is as normal as a large mass of matter filled with sugary water can be.

StrongRad · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:27 am

Cool! The one with the glare from the flash kinda looks like StrongBad with a Fu Manchu mustache and devil horns. LOL

ModestlyHotGirl · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:52 pm

Glad to hear you're okay, blueman.

ramrod · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:23 pm

I'm glad to hear that you're not insane Ol' Bluey! Now I still remain as the crazy one of this forum.......yay.

StrongCanada · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:37 pm

ramrod wrote:

Now I still remain as the crazy one of this forum.......yay.

What? That's my line, punk! I'm a lottery ticket to peanut butter! :homsar:

[EDIT: Glad to know everything's cool, TFB]

thefreakyblueman · **Posted:** Fri Jan 21, 2005 10:32 pm

StrongCanada wrote:

[EDIT: Glad to know everything's cool, TFB]

Thanks everyone! This MRI was actually only to rule out stuff like a tumor, and I think it did a good job at that.

ramrod · **Posted:** Sat Jan 22, 2005 5:05 am

StrongCanada wrote:

ramrod wrote:

Now I still remain as the crazy one of this forum.......yay.

What? That's my line, punk! I'm a lottery ticket to peanut butter! :homsar:

Oh I beg to differ, I am the Prince of randomness and insanity (Homsar obviously first), heck, I have even called myself LE Roi Des Poules!! (StrongZysk knows what I'm talking about) $$3 to whoever can tell me what that means (Excluding you Jerome...I mean StrongZysk)
And to quote some guy I heard it from

Some Guy wrote:

They took an x-ray of my head....they found nothing.

thefreakyblueman · **Posted:** Sat Jan 22, 2005 5:16 am

ramrod wrote:

heck, I have even called myself LE Roi Des Poules!! (StrongZysk knows what I'm talking about) $$3 to whoever can tell me what that means

I bow to you, King of Hens.

StrongCanada · **Posted:** Sat Jan 22, 2005 2:13 pm

thefreakyblueman wrote:

ramrod wrote:

heck, I have even called myself LE Roi Des Poules!! (StrongZysk knows what I'm talking about) $$3 to whoever can tell me what that means

I bow to you, King of Hens.

King of the Chickens, I think, actually (not to be nitpicky). I'm nuts....dude. :homsar:

thefreakyblueman · **Posted:** Sat Jan 22, 2005 6:42 pm

StrongCanada wrote:

King of the Chickens, I think, actually (not to be nitpicky). I'm nuts....dude. :homsar:

What!??!! How dare you question my translation, and indirectly, my integrity!! Bah!!

Ok.. so I don't know how to speak French, I just used a translator....

ramrod · **Posted:** Sat Jan 22, 2005 8:40 pm

Well, techinailly you're both right. Hens and chickens I believe are really the same thing. But I do use it for Chickens. Since you both got it, you cancel each other out and I keep the $$3, ha!

FireBird · **Joined:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 2:58 am **Posts:** 1819

Weird how topics drift from MRI's to hens and chickens.

Anydangway, I'm getting a byopsy on Wednesday, which really has nothing to do with MRI's. But anyways. The thought of a tube going down my throat and taking some of my esophagus back up with it makes me shiver. Brrr.

ModestlyHotGirl · **Posted:** Sun Jan 23, 2005 3:25 pm

Wow Fire Bird, I at least hope you'll be under general anaesthetic for that one. Best of luck!

FireBird · **Joined:** Mon Jan 10, 2005 2:58 am **Posts:** 1819

ModestlyHotGirl wrote:

Wow Fire Bird, I at least hope you'll be under general anaesthetic for that one.

I will be. The people I've talked to about it says you never know when it starts or ends.

ModestlyHotGirl also wrote:

Best of luck!

Thanks.

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