Comments on: MRI Magnet Madness

By: Colby

Colby — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:57:40 +0000

Does anyone know of any good safety videos for staff at MRI facilities?

By: Calli Arcale

Calli Arcale — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 03:13:06 +0000

Eden — to be fair, Stevie had already seen them put tattoo ink into a machine, and a tattooed pork shoulder, and nothing happened. They mixed up some super-duper-extra-irony ink, tattooed a pig shoulder with that, and it still didn’t do anything (although about a quart of the stuff in a plexiglass box *did* react to the magnet, flying into the chamber as the technician gently pushed it into the field).

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:28:07 +0000

My first couple MRIs were no problem – the 3rd, for whatever reason, I panicked. So I closed my eyes and started counting, picturing the numbers in my head as I counted – and went to sleep. Now I use that method anytime I’m in an uncomfortable situation – I actually slept through part of a root canal!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:23:52 +0000

I did pretty well the one and only time I had an MRI–I used to have a piercing that could not be removed without permanently removing it with a pair of pliers (it was a surface bar close to the clavicle, for those interested) and I remember my piercer wondering aloud what would happen if I had to have an MRI and not being sure whether the metal was magnetic. “Probably not” was her eventual assumption. Reassuring!

By: Bert

Bert — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:29:18 +0000

The one and only time I had an MRI, I fell asleep. Worked out pretty well since I had to lay in there for a half hour and stay completely still – I figured I might as well catch a nap.

By: Eden

Eden — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:26:40 +0000

I would also like to state for the record, for those who were in doubt, I have photographic evidence that I have a brain!!!! :P

By: Eden

Eden — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:25:38 +0000

I had an MRI 2 years ago. I may be one of the few people who has fallen asleep in the thing. The thumping of the magnet put me to sleep in about 5 minutes. This of course was bad as they were doing a scan of my head so they had to wake me up as I was in full REM and my eyes were moving. LOL!

I also have tattoos, some close to 20 years old, and the MRI does not do anything to them. As for the Mythbusters episode, it was Stevie who got into the MRI machine, nervously as she has many tattoos. Gotta give the girl credit for having the guts to get in there without knowing what was going to happen.

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 05:58:06 +0000

They can put those MRI machines in a place where I cannot say without being impolite. If you catch my drift.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:46:00 +0000

Warning: If you suffer with clostrophobia be sure to have a tranqulizer administered BEFORE an MRI session- my mother became sick and vomited.

By: the creature

the creature — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:08:07 +0000

remember that great episode of HOUSE where Dr. House used an MRI machine to test his theory that bullets were non-magnetic. after shooting a corpse in the head, he proceeded to destroy the MRI machine. thus proving his theory wrong…

yes, i am a HOUSE addict.