Warning about MRI scans

[faint_star]

Hello. I'd like to urge caution with MRI scans. Hindsight gives 20/20 wisdom, so this is what I think in hindsight:

- The human body just isn't meant to be in such strong magnetic fields. It is not built to counter it.

- The strong magnetic fields may be messing with trace heavy metals in the body, causing them to concentrate and thus become dangerous in some areas

- I personally wonder if blood cells (they contain iron) might be affected by the strong fields, i.e. causing them to concentrate in waves, and maybe even causing blood capillaries to shift.

I say this because I'm experiencing after effects of dizziness, fatigue, nausea. The fatigue occurred the next day, i felt an overwhelming urge to sleep, same again on day 2 after the scan.

I'm intermittently feeling nauseous, dizzy, and feeling very "dry" in my brain. No firm idea of when this will subside, if at all.

I only had the scan to be sure there wasn't a problem, it wasn't forced on me. However, I wasn't warned this could happen. I'm not trying to point fingers and accuse anybody. All I'm going to say is: google about fatigue after MRI scan. The phenomenon (and several other phenomena) is well documented by patients, but we aren't warned about it.

Avoid if possible.

[lotsforyou2]

I've had 5 MRI scans (all lower back area) in the last 15 years thanks to an ongoing back problem, and have never had any ill-effects or felt anything untoward after any of them - i imagine higher up the torso or of the head it might be different.  Best of luck finding a diagnosis and treatment

[Anonymous]

I had whooping cough in May of this year, and coughed so much that I exhaled all the air from my lungs and would then frequently pass out. This resulted in me bashing my face and ribs from falling for 3 weeks solid. I had a chest x-ray and a brain MRI, and did not experience any side effects.

Best of luck faint_star.

[kork46]

You're wrong, your symptoms aren't related to the MRI. Your statements have no basis in reality and might scare someone from getting imaging they need. All of the mechanisms you state have been researched and do not cause harm or even discomfort. You're either trying to lay groundwork for a lawsuit or spread misinformation, neither of which will work. Move on.

[dwtrading2015]

What a load of rubbish.  If any magnetic material was affected, it would be ripped out your body.  Few metals are magnetic so won't even detect the field.   Your dizziness is due to whatever condition you had prompting the need for an MRI.  If people buy in to this, then stay away and leave the equipment for others to use at much shorter wait times.

[faint_star]

I suggest people wanting to comment read how the thread progresses.

Before typing personal insults and slanders (if you really must) first try to think how the other person may have a point (e.g. imagine that things really did happen as described, imagine the best reasons that motivated them to post, and imagine they had already considered your objections).

That will be more likely to be their real position on the matter. Then respond to that.

It has nothing to do with conspiracy theories (which l'm unsure how to define, but Google gives "a belief that some secret but influential organization is responsible for an event or phenomenon."), climate change, suing the NHS, or my reason for the MRI etcetera.

Better yet, just read the thread first, look at the various posting dates, and you'll see the matter was over a long while ago. I've had MRIs galore before and since. May be getting another one soon.

@lotsforyou2  & @Anonymous   I hope you're doing better now and thank you. I heard there was whooping cough going around recently. I also had back pain but it's weirdly disappeared this morning. Still going to buy a plywood board for the bed.

[dwtrading2015]

This is eBay!  What has MRI scans got to do with eBay?  Why was this thread ever allowed to exist?  Why were you allowed to post the fear mongering stuff you did?  And YOU then report ME!!!!!  Unbelivable.

[faint_star]

I have not reported anybody (not that it matters) and am unsure why you are so very angry but kindly please keep me out of it.

[faint_star]

Unsure if this URL will display, but there's an interesting summary of the problem here: https://medium.com/@emergencycaremesquite/why-do-i-feel-drained-after-an-mri-b9a75a367071

In my instance, 3.5 years on from the event, l believe it was the head restraint possibly being too tight, acting on a weak area of the skull (from a previous accident). There may have been other factors such as listed above in the "Medium" article.

As l explained at the bottom of the previous page, my symptoms subsided after 5 days. Still unsure of exact cause but it was probably not as bad as the OP guessed at. I think a mix of dehydration and skull pressure. I also have a theory that l may have aluminium deposits in my brain (!) because l was an avid consumer of "aluminium cola rolla ball" sweets as a kid (now illegal).

Just to re-state: this thread, is, dead. Over. Finished a long while ago. The problem was an anomaly, nobody can say what went wrong that time. But, the thread, is, dead.