MRI Experience

First off, the people in this office were actually nice, caring and understanding for a change! 

The woman made me really paranoid when she asked if I have any metal on or in me. I triple checked but I still had that feeling that I forgot something. (I didn't) 

Oddly enough, claustrophobia is not one of my problems so that part wasn't too bad. The noises didn't bother me that much except when they became synchronized. I started getting delusional and thinking the machine is communicating with itself using Morse code. Weird. I'm very sensitive to motion, even on the bus, so I did feel the machine shaking. At some point it was shaking so much that I thought it was going to break. 

For a while I was getting paranoid that I had metal in me somewhere, through surgery when  I was little or something, and no one told me about it. I was getting so anxious that my chest, wrist and knees were going crazy and shooting up in intense pain. For the rest of today, it hurt my chest badly when I tried opening any doors or exerting myself in any way. 

I didn't like keeping my eyes closed. I like to have my eyes open so I can see if anything was about to happen. I was lying there with my eyes closed, having delusional and paranoid thoughts running through my mind the entire time. 

He also tried speaking to me through a mic. He said three or four different things. I didn't hear any of them, and I starting panicking anew each time he would speak. He sounded eerily muffled and far away. I still have no idea what he said. Oh well. 

The last few minutes weren't so bad. I was getting used to the movement and noises of the machine. Actually, towards the end, it had a calming effect. I liked it. I was able to relax, which is very rare for me. The now familiar noises and movements of the MRI machine became comforting. I actually miss it now. A lot. I wish I can crawl into one and fall asleep in there. It would probably help me sleep. 

There were a lot more thoughts running through my mind at the time, but I forgot most of them.

They gave me a little plastic box thing to keep my partial denture in. I usually use a plastic cup covered with a paper towel to store my "retainer", as I like to call it, in. 

If nothing else, at least I got a free denture holder.