I’ve found that I’m pretty good at holding still when I need to for MRIs and CT scans and things of that nature. Might be different now that I’ve got tardive dyskinesia in my left hand; we’ll have to see.
Has anyone here ever had to retake, or stop and restart, a hospital exam because you were moving around too much?
Once. An MRI had to be aborted part way through because I kept flinching and writhing from pain. Laying flat on my back caused increasingly severe pain on, of all places, the ankle and instep of my right foot…and my buttocks. I tried to prevent it with the strongest OTC anti-inflammatories, but they made not the slightest dent in the pain.
After getting a prescription for stronger stuff I made it all the way through the MRI with no pain. The MRI showed I had two herniated discs in my lower spine, which caused sciatic pain to those aforementioned parts of my body.
I had to get an MRI for my spinal stenosis. It was impossible for me to lie flat on my back without excruciating pain in my left leg and hip. They provided a small pillow under my left knee, but it wasn’t nearly enough. I was literally crying with pain. I had to take the test a few times before they said it was enough.
And BTW, when they ask you what kind of music you want to listen to, and you say “classical”, that doesn’t mean Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, repeated ad nauseum.
My friend has to get painkillers before each MRI due to severe pain in her abdominal region from the MRI. They have not figured out why she has pain, so that’s their solution as she has to go in every six months.
Oh, jeez. This was not meant as stealth bragging, though I can see now how it might be interpreted as such. Obviously, if I had excruciating pain, I wouldn’t be able to do it well either.
When I was doing prep for my first round of shoulder surgeries I went in for a flatbed MRI and after the first hour of the rhythmic knocking I started falling asleep but I was focusing on not moving so as I was drifting off I’d twitch and wake myself up. The test ended up going for close to three hours because I screwed up so many pictures. After that we’d only schedule pictures for one shoulder at a time.
The only analogous situation for me is needing to retake dental radiographs because I start gagging on the apparatus.
Ah, the “Don’t Stop Believin’” or “Brown-Eyed Girl” of the classical world. Was it just the first movement of Spring, or did you at least get to hear the whole composition?
Not myself, but a good friend of mine has cerebral palsy, which causes him to have uncontrollable shaking and body movement, pretty much all the time. He injured his shoulder a few years ago, and his doctor sent him for an MRI, which was a spectactular failure, as he simply was not able to stay still for the exam.
Yes. I’ve started having 2-3 hour MRI sessions to measure MS progression. I have to repeat the last one. It’s a long time to stay still and MRIs suck. Whatchagonnado?