I've had an MRI twice, once for my wrist and another time for my shoulder.
The wrist experience was fine, I actually sat down with my hand inside of the extremely loud contraption.
The shoulder experience was a different matter entirely. I was in Vietnam during the pandemic, and injured my shoulder during a table tennis training session.
At the hospital they do the standard blood pressure/pulse routine, which went fine until the machine started beeping red, at which point the nurse arranged an emergency visit with a cardiologist as my standing heart rate was under 40 BPM.
I felt fine but the cardiologist said I had something called bradycardia, and was at risk of a massive coronary if I didn't take medication to speed up my heart rate.
I was understandably worried about my heart, but wanted to get my shoulder looked at, so into this long, thin spaceship-like tube I went...
and pretty much instantly freaked out :)
I pressed the panic button; a tech came in and said, "close your eyes before entering". That made all the difference, MRI went fine after that (well, despite how absurdly loud it is in there).
As for my heart, I've probably had this condition my whole life.
The wrist experience was fine, I actually sat down with my hand inside of the extremely loud contraption.
The shoulder experience was a different matter entirely. I was in Vietnam during the pandemic, and injured my shoulder during a table tennis training session.
At the hospital they do the standard blood pressure/pulse routine, which went fine until the machine started beeping red, at which point the nurse arranged an emergency visit with a cardiologist as my standing heart rate was under 40 BPM.
I felt fine but the cardiologist said I had something called bradycardia, and was at risk of a massive coronary if I didn't take medication to speed up my heart rate.
I was understandably worried about my heart, but wanted to get my shoulder looked at, so into this long, thin spaceship-like tube I went...
and pretty much instantly freaked out :)
I pressed the panic button; a tech came in and said, "close your eyes before entering". That made all the difference, MRI went fine after that (well, despite how absurdly loud it is in there).
As for my heart, I've probably had this condition my whole life.