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You might remember that I had leg problems about 2 years ago. After some months it had got better. But now since a month it's back, and for the last 2 weeks it's been worse. Whatever I do my left leg is constantly hurting, though more acutely when I'm sitting.
Today I went back to the same clinic to get it checked, and the doctor diagnosed that it must be spinal disc herniation in my lower back. I was sent to another place to get a MRI scan. It was my first time, so I was a bit nervous but turned out that it wasn't a big deal.
I changed into hospital clothing and after waiting a bit I was called to the MRI room. There I laid down on the thin bed, with my legs slightly elevated on some sort of table. I was told that the MRI machine is quite loud, and was lent some special headphones through which streamed some soft music. Since no metal is allowed inside the MRI, the headphones don't have wires but instead vinyl tubes.
The bed was lifted up and entered the MRI machine, only the top half of my body, and the test started. The machine was quite loud indeed, ranging from gabber-ish loud bass beats to some dot-matrix printer-like sounds, I thought it was a little bit entertaining. It only lasted about 15 minutes, and cost about ¥7000.
I was given the huge slides which I'll have to bring to my doctor on Monday. Just knowing the result won't fix anything, but hopefully something can be done from then on...
Posted on May 12, 2007 at 19:38 | Tweet
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"You know you've raved too much when...
you start arguing over whether common household appliances have a drum'n'bass or a progressive house beat..."
... or MRI scanners for that matter... ;-)
Posted by Dave dV on May 12, 2007 at 20:24
Haha :)
Posted by Patrick on May 12, 2007 at 20:57
Thanks!
Today I got the results from the MRI and it confirmed that the problem is pretty nasty. But as long as I can walk I guess I'm not too unlucky.
Posted by Patrick on May 14, 2007 at 20:51
Outch, poor guy. In wikipedia I read that swimming and dancing can help. Perhaps your next record hunt should be build into some water ballet :-)
Really my best wishes to you.
Markus
Posted by Markus Kreisel on May 14, 2007 at 21:52
small consolation, but at least you know what the problem is. hope you are able to take care of it and get rid of that pain.
Posted by william on May 16, 2007 at 14:22
Markus, I think I'll try out swimming. I don't feel much like dancing, to say the least. :)
William, thanks! And that's right, at least now I know what the problem is and the do's and don'ts.
Posted by Patrick on May 16, 2007 at 14:27
Post a couple of the scans so we can really get to know the real you!
Posted by Mr Phoenix on May 17, 2007 at 23:35
Interesting reading your article. I work in the MRI industry and stumbled across your website. These machines can be pretty daunting and it was interesting to hear about your experiences. The magnets in these things are so powerful that they've wiped out more than one of my credit cards and a cell phone or two in the past. I've also heard horror stories about people with pace makers entering this things.
Posted by MRI Machine Guy on July 30, 2009 at 17:19