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Do you have a coping mechanism to get through an MRI?

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Mar 5 10:06am | Replies (60)
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@frouke

I too have routine mri’s and ct scans and apart from being panicked by being confined I try to get scheduled at a hospital that has the newer mris, what a different experience when the machine is twice as wide with open ends and also lights inside. This made all the difference for me to endure the procedure.

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joyceelaine | @joyceelaine | Dec 22, 2023

Mine had open ends and lights too. But opening my eyes and realizing that the ceiling is 2 inches above my nose is freaky. For that reason, I keep my eyes closed, Most peoples’ lived are so busy, and so noisy—TV, phone is ringing, traffic is crazy, fire trucks or honking horns, or airplanes, and on and on. I know mine is. I don’t have much time where I’m just in silence, and I have nothing to do but chill or sleep. so I close my eyes and I tell myself that I am grabbing a moment that seldom comes. And I also use the headphones and listen to classical music before I know it it’s over.

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