Re: Another MRI plus medication question

JHarper33 (JHarper33(AT)aol.com)
Sun, 29 Mar 1998 15:01:31 EST

In a message dated 98-03-29 14:52:34 EST, Marsden51(AT)aol.com writes:

> I told the tech
> about my panic attack during the first MRI and he said he would talk to me
> off
> and on during the MRI. He also said that if I felt I had to get out all I
> had
> to do was say so--that he could hear me because there is a speaker. I
didn'
> t
> know that with the first one.

They told me that, too -- that did help a lot.

>
> Who on the list has had an MRI of the brain? Do they have to immobilize
> your
> head?
>
> Sharon M. (from Arizona)
>

I don't think my head was immobilized -- I don't remember any restraints or
anything. I think there was a particular place I was supposed to lay my head.

Barbara H. from GA