#mri

[sleepy-bebby]

They did a CT scan on a fish

#forbidden taco #memes #meme #cute #funny #fish memes #cute animals #fish meme #wholesome #funny memes #lol #dank #fish #what is the copay for this fish #dank meme #dank memes #mri #medical meme #medical memes

[teathattast]

#aliexpress #mri #mri machine

[annasellheim]

Next part- MRI shenanigans

#comic #comics #proud #drawing #sketch #artist #mri #mri scan #disability #disabled #osteogenesis imperfecta #arthritis #brittle bone disease #genetics #disabilties #cartoon #comix #webcomic #graphic medicine #graphic novel #book #books #book lover #booklr #comic books #bookblr #books and reading #memior #sick #get down with the sickness

[t34-mt]

for an oc pmv/amv i'll prob never finish. Mri scans of maanul, with severed tahofahs / "olfactory lobe" in the second pic

#mri #ms paint #maanul #digital art #my art #oc #artists on tumblr #worldbuilding #speculative zoology #altuyur #black white #xenobiology #wip #anatomy

[i-love-orion]

i recently had a mri and cause i'm not claustrophobic i actually find them quite silly.

they had me put on earplugs and then headphones that could play music

so, pov, mri sounds over muffled will wood

i'm just a psycho

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

i didn't lose it babe

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

i'm only passin' through oh

BWE BWE BWE BWE

#orion speaks #chronic pain #MRI #MRI SCAN #WILL WOOD #william woodiam #will wood and the tapeworms #wwattw #wee woo #wwatw

[dduane]

Today’s adventure

“Lie on this nice slab. Now we’ll slide you into the machine. Here’s the panic button. Ready?”

(sliiiiiiide)

(SFX similar to being locked in a starship's Engineering dep't during a red alert w/imminent warp core breach:)

MRI MACHINE: HOOT HOOT HOOT GRRRRRRIND ZAP ZAP ZAP ZAP YOWWWWWL BLART BLART HOOT HOOT…!!!

DD: ...

DD: …and?

MRI MACHINE (just getting its first wind:) EEEOOOO EEEOOOO EEEOOOO ZIT ZIT ZIT OOOOGA OOOOGA OOOOGA OOOOOOGA

DD: …

MRI MACHINE (getting seriously into it now:) …ik ik ik ik OWW OWW OWW OWW OWW OWW BADOOM BADOOM BADOOM BADOOM urk urk urk.

DD: …and?

MRI MACHINE (Red Alert mode): up up up UP UP UP AWOGNK AWOGNK AWOGNK EEEEEooooo EEEEEEooooo EEEEEEoooooo…

DD: …(eyeroll)

MRI MACHINE (afterthought) unk unk zit zit zit zit zit zit.

(deep breath) AHOOGA AHOOGA AHOOGA AHOOGA AHOOGA bdang bdang bdang bdang bdang…

DD: (harder eyeroll) …AND?

DD: (sigh) …Fine.

*half an hour later*

PETER: So how was it?

DD: Call an exorcist. The ghost of Schönberg is stuck in there and re-inventing twelvetone.

#MRI #and the musics thereof #Youtube

[just-here-for-the-whump]

Shut Eye 1x1 Death

#shut eye #jeffrey donovan #whump #injury #beat up #care #hospital #falling #unsteady #bandage #mri

[thingstrumperssay]

Israel, at an attempt to justify their genocide of every Palestinian in Gaza, claims that they found a shit load of weapons in the MRI room of a hospital.

Hospitals has a bunch of different rooms, but they chose a room where it'd be impossible to store weapons in. Why are they unable to come up with a plausible lie? Like, at all? Y'know what would happen to all of those weapons the second the room is used for MRI scans?

So it's pretty fucking baffling to me that they would choose the MRI room over any other room in the hospital to make the claim that they found all of those weapons.

Israel come up with a plausible lie challenge (IMPOSSIBLE!)

Edit: I didn't even think about the picture where the IDF are walking into the MRI "building" with full military gear and weapons on them without getting crushed to death until just now.

#mri #mri machines #israel #hamas

[thepro-lifemovement]

#9 weeks #mri #prolife #pro life #pro-life #video #tiktok #nicu nurse #pretty neat

[ineffectualdemon]

Things I learned getting two MRIs, one a week directly after the other in case you haven't had one and are a little scared

For context the first one was for my head and the second was for my spine and pelvis

If you are nervous they will let you keep an emotional support plushie as long as it doesn't have any metal and can fit in your hand

Make sure you are not tensed up because you can't really untense once you start

You feel it but it doesn't hurt. It will vibrate you though and if it's on your head will feel like your head is being squeezed a little

Even with the earplugs and headphones it's loud as fuck

It gets warm. I didn't notice this with the head one but with the body it felt like having an electric blanket or a heat pack on my back. It actually made things a little easier because I use a heat pack for my lower back pain

The heat actually can be felt more in your tattoo. But it didn't hurt except for where two of my fingers were touching my other hand (not tattooed) and even that wasn't bad and I just changed my hand position slightly

The music doesn't really help with the sounds of being inside a washing machine but it does give you something to focus on

Wearing a face mask over your mouth is not advisable if you are claustrophobic. I did it the first time and just about managed and opted not to the second time

You get a panic button

It's disorienting getting out but not horribly so

If your sinuses are clogged they won't be for the duration you're in the machine as it will vibrate it all down the back of your throat

On that note go pee before hand and be prepared to need to pee after. Especially if they are scanning your pelvis. Heat and vibration make things want to exit

It's mostly boring and loud

The last 5 minutes are the worst because you just want to be done

It's really not that bad but if you have chronic pain it's laying very still for quite a length of time on a hard uncomfortable surface and probably in a position your body hates. So it's not pleasant but it's honestly not the worst exam I've had

I will say that I am quite fat and while they had to check that I would fit (I did) they were very nice about it and blamed the equipment and not me and were very kind. I am not saying that's a usual occurrence but I am grateful that's the experience I had

#medical #mri scan #mri #information about mri

[crippled-peeper]

Hey, I've got an upcoming MRI on my lumbar and sacral spine, and I don't know if you had any MRIs on large portions of your spine pre-hardware? If so can you possibly offer any insight on how long I can expect to be stuck in the Rave Tube™ and perhaps how to not lose my mind in there?

My only advice is to wear sweatpants and comfortable clothes that have no metal on them. Also pre-medicate if you’re like me and get nerve pain and muscle spasms because laying still on a hard flat surface is REALLY uncomfortable after a while

Sometimes they’ll have headphones you can wear and other times they just give you earplugs. So have a genre or idea in mind what you want to listen to in case they ask (I think some places use Spotify and others pandora still?)

Also it’s ok if you fall asleep. Spine MRIs tend to be really long and boring. If you get claustrophobic or anything they usually give you a button or a squeeze ball that will tell them you need something.

Good luck with your MRI and everything!!!

#ask to tag #mri #spine #disabled

[elumish]

What Medical Stuff Feels Like (Scans and Stuff)

Content warning for general medical stuff, mention of IVs.

Also strong caveat that all of this is exactly one person's experience (mine) and so 1) may not be what you experience, 2) may not match up with other descriptions you've read, and 3) is not being written by a medical professional.

Ultrasound: For an ultrasound, they take an ultrasound wand (a one-handed thing with a smooth end and a wire attaching it to a machine), stick a bunch of goo on it, and then press it to whatever they're looking at and then have the machine collect images. The goo is usually cold, and they will usually apologize for it.

All of my experiences with this have been below the neck and above the pelvis. Depending on where they're pressing, it can hurt quite a bit--imagine having someone press something hard into your breast tissue or your ribs. How much it hurts definitely depends on what they're pressing on--things like the sternum and ribs hurt a lot more than places with a lot of fatty tissue.

You may or may not be shirtless for this--it depends on what they're looking for. For breast tissue or things in that range, you're generally in a patient shirt that you have either open over one breast or over both, and the other will sometimes be covered with a towel. For the rest of the abdomen, I've done it with my shirt pulled up and my pants down low enough for them to get to everything.

Once you're done, you wipe the goo off, but it also doesn't stain clothing (at least from my experience) and it doesn't irritate my skin. it just feels kind of weird.

I had to fast before an abdminal ultrasound but not a breast ultrasound, so it really depends.

My extremely hot take is that getting an abdominal ultrasound is my least favorite form of scan.

Echocardiogram: This is basically an ultrasound of your heart. That means the focus is on your left breast area, and if you have a lot of breast tissue, it means the tech is going to be awkwardly maneuvering it around/pressing on it pretty hard to get to the heart. I've had these twice--once, the tech was with a couple of doctors (or other techs? it's been like 8 years since then) and they were all making comments that I didn't understand about various parts of my heart. The second time, it was just the tech, and we occasionally made awkward small talk while he mashed an ultrasound wand into my breast.

Both of my echocardiogram techs have been men, and I will say that this is basically the least sexual experience you can have with a man while shirtless having them touch your breast. I think basically everywhere in the US you should be able to have an advocate in there with you, but I've never personally felt uncomfortable re: the shirtless in front of a male tech situation.

3D ultrasound: I once described a 3D ultrasound as if a dentist lamp was also a scanner and hated you. At least from the ones that I've experienced, they're essentially this weird giant thing that looks a lot like a dentist light on one of those moveable arms, and they cover everything with goo and then squish it against what they're taking scans of and then take the scans. It's less targeted than handheld ultrasounds but can get larger areas. I think there are also live 3D ultrasounds for things like pregnancy but I've never had that.

MRI: My favorite of the scans (unironically). For an MRI, you basically lie on a slab in a giant tube that makes horrible clanking noises for 45 minutes to an hour. Because they work using magnets, you can't have metal in or on you, so you have to take off all jewelry, earrings, etc. and then they ask a gazillion questions beforehand to make sure that there's nothing the magnets will disrupt (e.g., pacemaker) or will pull on (e.g., magnetic eyelashes). Twice, they had me change at least partially out of my street clothes; the last time I did it in my street clothes minus my bra, which felt vaguely illegal.

It's decently cold, so they generally offer a warmed blanket. At least for MRIs of the abdomen, there is a heavy thing that gets draped over your abdomen to basically make it pick up the images there (I don't really know how that works). To me, it feels kind of like a weighted blanket.

All of my MRIs have been since COVID started, though the first one was pre-masking; I wore a KN-95 in the MRI for my last one and had no issues re: the magnet.

Once you go in the tube, you basically just have to lie still for as long as the MRI goes. They will ask you if you are claustrophobic beforehand. It doesn't set of my claustrophia, but I imagine it happens a lot. They stick a ball in your hand for you to squeeze as basically an emergency stop/to notify them that you need out before it's done. They're also really bright, and at least from my experience, sometimes the paint is peeling a little. That doesn't matter, other than as something to stare at.

There are also headphones so they can give you instructions. For two of the three MRIs, they also played music (I listed to Taylor Swift for the last one). The headphones are kind of noise canceling, but nothing can block out the clanking, of which there is a lot, of various types, very loudly. The instructions will vary; one of the things they have you do for abdominal MRIs is hold your breath out, which feels very weird and is actually surprisingly hard--basically instead of inhaling and holding your breath, you exhale and then don't breathe back in until they tell you to. I can never hold it for as long as they say to, but it's never been an issue (at least as far as they've told me).

For some MRIs, they use contrast. Generally (maybe always?) they say that it's "with and without contrast" which means that they do the majority of it without contrast, and then they put the contrast in and take some more images. To get contrast, you need an IV, which they put in before you get in the machine. They attach the IV to a coil-y tube, which extends when you get moved into the machine. They generally hook it around your hand so it stays in place/doesn't pull against the IV site.

Contrast feels very weird. Someone mentioned this in one of the reblogs for the stabby stuff post, but basically it gets processed by your body really quickly so it goes to your bladder really quickly and also feels warm so it sort of feels like you've wet yourself. They warn you before they put it in.

Unironically, I find MRIs kind of relaxing, because you just lie still for like an hour under a weighted blanket. 4/10 would pick over the other options.

I have had a CT scan done but don't really remember it so would love someone to weigh in on those.

#medical #mri #ultrasound #echocardiogram #needles

[unbfacts]

#MRI #brain #love #psychology #facts

[athletearrhythmia]

Two dilated ventricles

(Note: this is a more dark cardio post. Everything written was approved before posting, if the tone seems kinda mean it's not, I know the other subject well)

(Top image I'm on the right, bottom on the left)

Xykolich is one of the best cardiophile creators around right now, I'm sure you've seen videos of his remarkable heart. He has advanced dilated cardiomyopathy and recently gave me images of his mri study to compare to my own dilated ventricles.

His left ventricle is a whopping 80mm across, a full centimeter over my extremely large left ventricle and nearly twice the size of an average person's. However while my heart is positively adapted to exercise, his heart is scarred and inefficient. You can see a ring of scar tissue in his short axis image representing the dead portion of his heart that can't contract, which is what caused his heart to balloon as it panicked to compensate.

We don't have video, but this contrast in our hearts really flourishes in exercise. We both have low ejection fractions at rest because our hearts are so large a small percentage still amounts to large stroke volume. (Although his disease is advanced enough that his stroke volume is getting too low.) If we were to exercise though, the scarring prevents his damaged heart from contracting much harder than it can at rest. Even in light exercise then, his heart rate will skyrocket before decompensating and going totally out of rhythm as his heart fails. You've seen this in some of his videos. My heart by comparison will expand and contract harder as exercise intensity increases, allowing my heart to pump gallons and gallons of blood as its output increases beyond standard limits.

His right ventricle is also normal in size but looks small because his left ventricle is so large. You can really see here just how much cardio has enlarged my right ventricle. The biventricular enlargement reemphasizes athlete's heart syndrome as it represents improved function of my right ventricle to support the enhanced left. In fact my right ventricle clocks in at 56mm and 7-9mm thick walls. For context, that is the size of a well trained amateur's *left ventricle*; my heart is so enlarged that supporting my left ventricle requires the output of most athletes' entire heart. His right ventricle is not up to the task. Even if his left wasn't damaged and could beat well, the rv isn't big enough to fill that massive heart. His heart is doomed to fail.

I love that our hearts are opposite ends of the cardio spectrum. We are both genetic flukes (DCM is usually genetic, the extent of my enlargement can only be genetic). We have both extensively pushed our hearts in their natural directions, mine by constantly trying to improve its function and grow it, him by engaging in dark play. And we are both extremely "advanced", with his heart essentially a non functional balloon and mine 99th percentile among Olympic athletes. What's so cool is on a still image, our hearts are still pretty similar looking. Certainly explains why some cardiologists look at my heart with concern. I should show them his.

#cardiophilia #dark cardiophilia #Human heart #Real heart #Athlete's heart #Dcm #Dilated cardiomyopathy #Lge #Mri #Heart scar

[fuzzyghost]

#mri #80s #retro graphics #grid #retrowave #vaporwave #brain #gif

[thebullensshitposting]

Vampire MRI

So, I (the older of the two idiots running this blog) have been having some health issues and had to have several MRIs done for them. Now, obviously laying in a big magnetic tube for 3 hours in total isn't exactly exciting. So what do you do? You let your mind wander.

Anyway, to the point:

If a vampire was to get an MRI done, what would we see, or what wouldn't we see? Like imagine dear Edward going into that tube, would he just look solid on the images? Would he maybe not be visible at all? Maybe he's magnetic and stuck until Carlisle has to explain in some mind boggling way why the machine has to be turned off, even though they never do that.

#twilight saga #the twilight saga #twilight #twilight renaissance #twilight renessaince #twilight meme #carlisle cullen #edward cullen #health #mri scan #mri #questions #smeyer #stephenie meyer #are vampires glorified living rocks?