MRI's

money_pit_yj · Dec 3, 2014

My friend Cole Trickle had an MRI after a car accident. He just asked the nurse to talk to him and it seemed to help. He must have done something right, he ended up banging the nurse and taking her to Daytona with him. :woot:

My wife is a dental hygienist and takes my xrays in this tube thing that goes over your head and it weirds me out so I could not imagine what a tube over my whole body would do. Your man card is still in tact as far as Im concerned!

85buggy · Dec 3, 2014

Had s great aunt that died in one of those things.
She was old born in 1910 or so hardly ever went to yhe dr.
Had a heart attack.

whiskeymakin · Dec 3, 2014

U didn't get the dye shot? That needle is about 8 inches long. Straight thru the shoulder to "highlight" bad spots. Thought I was going to pass out

drkelly · Dec 3, 2014

I've had a few MRI's. I just close my eyes, then I usually fall asleep during the process.

TheViking · Dec 3, 2014

My mother in law operates one for a living your reaction is normal. Find a open MRI next time and you should be good to go :dblthumb:

LightBnDr · Dec 3, 2014

money_pit_yj said:
My friend Cole Trickle had an MRI after a car accident. He just asked the nurse to talk to him and it seemed to help. He must have done something right, he ended up banging the nurse and taking her to Daytona with him.

Pure awesome!!!

TacomaJD · Dec 3, 2014

I've not been all that wigged out by MRI's, but after my bike wreck, I had to do 20 dives in a Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber and lost my **** in there the first few times. I remember beating on the glass, pointing at the nurse, telling her to get me out of there or I was gonna murder her and her whole family. I was on pain meds too and it still fawked with me. They ended up giving me some Adavans or something to calm my nerves and I finished every dive pretty normal then. hour long each. **** is weird to get used to. You can carry a drink it, but have to crack the lid open so it don't bust under pressure. Crazy watching a Gatorade bottle shrink in while you sit there and adjust to the pressure increase. Below is what a HBOC is if you didn't already know

copied from the web:
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy involves breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized room or tube. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a well-established treatment for decompression sickness, a hazard of scuba diving. Other conditions treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy include serious infections, bubbles of air in your blood vessels, and wounds that won't heal as a result of diabetes or radiation injury.

In a hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber, the air pressure is increased to three times higher than normal air pressure. Under these conditions, your lungs can gather more oxygen than would be possible breathing pure oxygen at normal air pressure.

Your blood carries this oxygen throughout your body. This helps fight bacteria and stimulate the release of substances called growth factors and stem cells, which promote healing

money_pit_yj · Dec 3, 2014

TacomaJD said:
I've not been all that wigged out by MRI's, but after my bike wreck, I had to do 20 dives in a Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber and lost my **** in there the first few times. I remember beating on the glass, pointing at the nurse, telling her to get me out of there or I was gonna murder her and her whole family. I was on pain meds too and it still fawked with me. They ended up giving me some Adavans or something to calm my nerves and I finished every dive pretty normal then. hour long each. **** is weird to get used to. You can carry a drink it, but have to crack the lid open so it don't bust under pressure. Crazy watching a Gatorade bottle shrink in while you sit there and adjust to the pressure increase. Below is what a HBOC is if you didn't already know

copied from the web:
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy involves breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized room or tube. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a well-established treatment for decompression sickness, a hazard of scuba diving. Other conditions treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy include serious infections, bubbles of air in your blood vessels, and wounds that won't heal as a result of diabetes or radiation injury.

In a hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber, the air pressure is increased to three times higher than normal air pressure. Under these conditions, your lungs can gather more oxygen than would be possible breathing pure oxygen at normal air pressure.

Your blood carries this oxygen throughout your body. This helps fight bacteria and stimulate the release of substances called growth factors and stem cells, which promote healing

If you don't mind me asking, what happened?

TheViking · Dec 3, 2014

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money_pit_yj said:
If you don't mind me asking, what happened?

His bike wreck where he lost his leg.

TacomaJD · Dec 3, 2014

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Hit a guardrail running about 90 and flipped over it and up into the woods. 3 weeks in hospital, 8.5 months bound to wheelchair, returned to 40 hour work weeks at 11 months from date of wreck, which was March 7th, 2010. Had to do the hboc dives to help wounds to heal.

Looks like Snoopy haha

My pelvis

Right leg after rod in shin bone, screws in knee and ankle

There was a huge gap in the bone where those stars are above, so this is after they did a bone graft

Bone graft incision stitched up

Damaged meniscus in midget leg knee and this is after ACL and PCL reconstructive surgery.

Was a rough 11 months. Got bored a lot and vowed never to bitch about work again. Being completely bored is way worse. Had a lot of fun with pain pills and alcohol during that time though lol.

xjtony · Dec 3, 2014

Many diagnostic places and outpatient facilities at major hospitals have open MRI's. All depends on what you want imaged as to whether or not the open machine will allow good images. But many people cant handle the tight space. Where I work the MRI scanners are pretty big in my opinion, but I have seen/been in the really small ones. I'm a CT Tech so I do Cat Scans 12.5hrs a day. This is the exact scanner I run at work=

TacomaJD · Dec 3, 2014

And made by Siemens ^^^ I work for Siemens. In the Energy Sector though, not health care. Love seeing their name on all sorts of **** though! :****:

xjtony · Dec 3, 2014

TacomaJD said:
And made by Siemens ^^^ I work for Siemens. In the Energy Sector though, not health care. Love seeing their name on all sorts of **** though! :****:

Yep, we have a few GE scanners as well. But I run the Siemens scanner in the ER.

Elliott · Dec 3, 2014

Jd it looks like it was a miracle that you was able to keep your other leg.

TacomaJD · Dec 3, 2014

Elliott said:
Jd it looks like it was a miracle that you was able to keep your other leg.

It was, that leg was what took the longest to heal up. I was not awake to see what my other leg looked like before they amputated it, but judging by how the one I got to keep looked, I'd say it was prolly really fawked up :****:

TheViking · Dec 4, 2014

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TacomaJD said:
It was, that leg was what took the longest to heal up. I was not awake to see what my other leg looked like before they amputated it, but judging by how the one I got to keep looked, I'd say it was prolly really fawked up :****:

Damn I though that was the one that was amputated.

xjpaddler · Dec 9, 2014

Found out july 6th that i have tumor on the base of my brain. Have had CT, MRI, EEG, and about any other scan. Had a gama knife procedure done in august. Had the wonderful box screwed to my head for the 3D imagery scan. Since then things have gotten better but still have some uncontrolled twitching in my face, and from time to time equilibrium issues. Not vertigo, but feels like your trying to walk drunk!!

Just had an advanced MRI this morning and for some reason it has triggered the problems ive been having, this one was odd kinda like setting in a car with a major system in it.