Pre holiday injury paranoia ...

I don't know if you are allowed the ipod in, might interfere or something.. (or the machine might interfere with your ipod)

40 minutes was a quick one for one knee, you can look forwards to up to 2 hours of fun depending on how complicated your scan gets/what they have to look at.

oh ya I bet your right about the ipod ,I probably wont be able to bring it in :cry:. no metal of anything allowed.
Least the mri is at 10pm at night! so I should be sleepy by then ..hopefully can relax ha ha ha
thanks for the info on all of this.

Yeh, no probs, my favourite past time is side tracking threads too.

ya me too it now seems :lol:

Sorry Jenno :D

Pablo Escobar wrote:I don't know if you are allowed the ipod in, might interfere or something.. (or the machine might interfere with your ipod)

40 minutes was a quick one for one knee, you can look forwards to up to 2 hours of fun depending on how complicated your scan gets/what they have to look at.

Thought you lost your ipod,,,,,,,,, :?:

LM wrote:oh ya I bet your right about the ipod ,I probably wont be able to bring it in :cry:. no metal of anything allowed.
Least the mri is at 10pm at night! so I should be sleepy by then ..hopefully can relax ha ha ha
thanks for the info on all of this.

I slept through most of my knee mri, so I'm not sure how long it took. The modern machines are getting much quicker. A good ortho doc will know what's up without an mri and the scan is just to make sure there are no surprises.

As to private insurance, it is nice. The only problem is that your taxes might have to go up several hundred bucks a month to get that kind of service on a National health type program. In the US, a family plan with a $1000 deductable and 10% co-pays will set you back about $900 a month. 10% co-pays (you pay 10% of the cost each time you go)sounds ok until some thing very bad goes wrong. 10% of a $500,000 treatment bill is a lot of money. As a Brit, I rather appreciate swanning into see the ortho on a next day appointment and just going down the hall for an mri then and there, but there's a huge price to pay. I'm sure there's a middle ground if the politicians can find it.

LM, good luck with the scan and hope it's an easy fix.

Trencher

Thankyou Trencher :-)

LM wrote:40 minutes..yikes! That will be tough on me too..ha ha ha guess thats a good time to practice my meditation that I learned from yoga class :lol:,.. think I will bring my ipod too. :wink:
So happy to hear I wont be all the way into the mri tube! thankyou! I was wondering about that!

LM, I had an MRI scan on 1 knee last year, done privately and it took 20 minutes. The time can stretch out if you flinch or wriggle, and it ruins the image (makes it blurry) and they have to do a re-run. The operator will tell you when the scanning run is taking place, and your Yoga study will pay dividends for you.

If you go into the scanner room determined to be utterly calm and relaxed it really is no big deal :D

Modern scanners are a lot less noisy than ones 10-15 years ago, trust me on this :lol:

Nothing metal to be taken in to the scanner room, as it generates a magnetic field )