Hi H so what an experiece! had i known I could have loaned you some ear defenders, I've got several and one pair will blot out any noise of any sort, sounds like they could have been useful for you. I must admit it doesn't sound nice, expecially if one suffers from claustrophobia.

But it's all done now and like you I do hope that the cure is simple and you're out of pain very soon.

And thanks for taking the time to tell us all (I had no idea about these scans) and perservering with the netbook, I think you've cracked that one now.

I had to have an MRI scan a couple of years ago on my knee, and when I turned up they said I would have to take my earings out, I have one ear pierced 3 times, including a earing right at the top of my ear which never comes out, as it was a knee scan I couldn't understand why I had to take my earings out but they said the previous week someone else had been pulled into the machine and had their ear ripped because they had a earing so it seemed like a good enough reason to take them out, but we couldn't get the fixed one at the top of my ear out, I tried, they tried, just wouldn't budge, then they said they would hold my apt for a couple of hours if I came back with it out, so I went on a tour of all the tatooists /piercers in Cardiff they were all closed because it was still early in the morning, finally I found one open but the guy who did the piercings wasn't there but a customer who had loads of piercings himself had a go using a special tool and got my earing out, and had the presence of mind to put a strip of plastic through the hole so it wouldn't close up before I could get it put back, I hated the MRI scan too it was really noisy but after all the rushing around I'd done it was quite nice to just lie there and relax! at least when I went to get my earing put back in afterwards that wasn't a hassle.
Hope your results are good, and its a minor problem that can be easily fixed.

I had one a few years ago and almost fell asleep. My bladder was being scanned so went in upto my shoulders to get my full body.

Thanks all, and Christ Angie what a palarva you had to gothrough, but they said that tome too, I was to take everything metal off, maybe coz of the magnets, it attracts metal and like yousay, pulls it out! He kept asking me if I had a belt on my jeans, can you imagine, I'd have been yanked up to the ceiling in there!!!!

Well, results are NOT yet at the osteopath, although I asked them to fax them through this morning, but when I rang, my osteopath had gone home, so I've got to wait until tomorrow pm, by which time the originals should arrive there in the post.

Doc now has x-rays, thanks toME ringing the hospital, only to be told my doctor should HAVE them So again, they had to fax them through to the docs. He told me it's arthritis in the neck, no signs of a tumour (phew!!!) but he is going to send me to a specialist in the next two weeks, and although I didn't tell him I'd had an MRI, it'll be handy totake that withme when I see the specialist.

The strange thing is though, ever since my spooky night at that Psychic show where I got a reading, the pain is almost gone now, ever since the interval when I was in agony by then coz of the sitting down, as soon as he had given me the reading, I haven't had it since!!! Oooooerrr!!!!

Thanks all, I can't wait to see my piccies at the osteopath, aparently they are brilliant, you can see just about everything including all the blood vessels, so if a nerve is damaged or trapped at least she'll know where and be able to untrap it for me hopefully won't she. Meanwhile, i'll just carry on waiting then.

Phew I'm also glad it's not a tumour or anything like that, but it's good you're going to a specialist, arthritus can be painful too, lots of people have it but that doesn't make it any less painful, hope they can sort you out 'tho.

Regarding the psychic meeting, well on your other thread you did specifically ask non believers to keep stum so that's what I'll do

blimin 'eck!!! that sounded horrible

xx

Thanks again H, and now I've got the really bad news from the osteopath!

The arthritis in the neck bit was from the x-ray at the hospital, but thank God I went for this MRI on my own, because the osteopath rang me on Friday with the bad news. Apparently, I have not only torn a muscle big time (the one which runs over the top of my shoulder apparently?) torn it in quite a few places, but I have also managed to rip it clean off a bone where it goes through a hole in my shoulder with some nerves (the hole is normal though Lol!) I don't do things by halves do I, but thank goodness I asked for a scan of my shoulder too, coz as you know I'm always right and although both the doctor and osgteopath said it was actually my neck that was causing the pain, I told them emphatically that it was my shoulder!!! Wry they no risten!!!!

I'm now in the process of waiting for the actual pictures to get through on a disc from the scan to the osteopath coz atm she only has their report which was faxed through but that's enough on it's own I think! She will take me through the pictures to show me the damage, but she also said there will be hundreds of them. I am in the process of filling out the doctor's form and phoning the hospital to make the appt with the specialist and although of course, the scan report will be invaluable to them I doubt whether they can help me much?? No bladdy wonder I've been in agony and unable to sit at the puter with all that going on isn't it. Now I need lots of sympathy please, coz I told you it hurt!!! Lol! I blame those dogs, and that day when the gsd came hurfing over to attack us and Georgie (55 kgs of Georgie) yanked the lead I was holding didn't do it any favours did it, that's probably the big rip in that hole! Naughty Georgie causing me all this pain.

Beware all you horse riders, this is 30+ years of trying to hold back half a ton of horse flesh who wanted to gallop off and bury me!!! Plus two big dogs finishing me off after retiring from the horse world When will I learn as me mother used to say! Hey ho, at least it's calmed down a tad now, not quite so painful, but maybe that's coz I know what it is now, I feel a lot better, I needed to know, so that scan was worth every penny, otherwise the doc would never have known about these torn muscles coz I know I'd never had got that scan with the good old NHS, been there, got the t-shirt on thatone. I'll be looking forward to seeing all the pretty pics next week then

H - it may have been a nightmare but you made me smile with your account of it

hope you get well soon!

Ouch H you really don't do things by half!! I know what you mean though about being able to relax more once you officially know what is wrong. Stops your mind doing overtime. Hope you start to feel better really soon xx

ive just read your account of the *machine* OMG i would of freaked right out.
i get panic attacks if im crowded in. so id have to be sedated. im due at the hospital tuesday (vertigo) so im seeing an ENT guy. and my gp said he will want to do a scan on my head. so if its one of them ones GIVE ME DRUGS NOW !!!!!!!!!!!
i hope they can sort u out it sounds very painful.