My mom gets Xanax when she has to go in for them... she's not allowed to have open ones, because her MRIs are for her MS.
One place she had one, they let her bring her own music. You might ask someone if that's a possibility, then you know you'll be fine with the music choices.
I can do MRIs fine. It's the drawing blood that I can't handle. I react worse than you did for your MRIs. funny how phobias work, ain't it?
I got to pick my music from the XM radio. I just made the wrong station choice. Duran Duran and Flock of Seagulls were fine, but Twisted Sister tensed me right up.
I'd do the Xanax if I didn't have to drive myself.
I do blood draws poorly. My veins can never be found when there's a needle involved. But I don't faint like my sister does.
Yeah, Twisted Sister can do that. XM has some decent eclectic stations of 80s to current stuff. My DirecTV does XM stations and I listen to them far too much when nothing's on TV.
My veins are right on the surface. Big old monsters, super easy to get to. But I see the needle and I get light-headed. Mom gets shots and Dad and I both get cold sweats just watching her prep the shot.
But with blood, I tense up, I get light-headed, I sweat, I cry, I'm a total mess. I can't even watch blood be drawn on TV or movies. But I can totally be doing a craft project, send a razor blade skidding off cardboard and into my hand and not have a problem (except for the bleeding everywhere part)
Hope everything's alright with you though. My grandfather has fibromyalgia and we're afraid my Dad's getting it.
I was lucky when I had my MRI a couple weeks ago that my head was mostly out of the tube...I was able to keep my clausterphobia in check as a result (and the fact that my tech had a very sexy voice), but still. If there'd been actual squashing involved I don't think I would have managed.
My 6'3" 350+ frame won't fit in the standard MRI machines, so I was spared that. They had to cover various bits of me in lead, but the open worked well otherwise.
I wish I'd had music. That would've made it much more tolerable. *hugs*
I was crying by the time mine was done. No squeezebulb. No blindfold. LiteFM station 50 minutes of hell. And the tech just said, oh were you uncomfortable? I nearly killed the b.
that Brit stiff upper lip doesn't serve me well sometimes. It was the LiteFM that about finished me. I'll be arranging some valium before I have that done again and I HATE valium.
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One place she had one, they let her bring her own music. You might ask someone if that's a possibility, then you know you'll be fine with the music choices.
I can do MRIs fine. It's the drawing blood that I can't handle. I react worse than you did for your MRIs. funny how phobias work, ain't it?
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I'd do the Xanax if I didn't have to drive myself.
I do blood draws poorly. My veins can never be found when there's a needle involved. But I don't faint like my sister does.
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XM has some decent eclectic stations of 80s to current stuff. My DirecTV does XM stations and I listen to them far too much when nothing's on TV.
My veins are right on the surface. Big old monsters, super easy to get to. But I see the needle and I get light-headed. Mom gets shots and Dad and I both get cold sweats just watching her prep the shot.
But with blood, I tense up, I get light-headed, I sweat, I cry, I'm a total mess. I can't even watch blood be drawn on TV or movies. But I can totally be doing a craft project, send a razor blade skidding off cardboard and into my hand and not have a problem (except for the bleeding everywhere part)
Hope everything's alright with you though. My grandfather has fibromyalgia and we're afraid my Dad's getting it.
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I'm not a small woman and I was actually very squashed in the tube.
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I was lucky when I had my MRI a couple weeks ago that my head was mostly out of the tube...I was able to keep my clausterphobia in check as a result (and the fact that my tech had a very sexy voice), but still. If there'd been actual squashing involved I don't think I would have managed.
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I wish I'd had music. That would've made it much more tolerable. *hugs*
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No squeezebulb.
No blindfold.
LiteFM station
50 minutes of hell.
And the tech just said, oh were you uncomfortable?
I nearly killed the b.
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I'd have been making as many distress signals with hands and feet as I could and screaming "GET ME OUT OF HERE!"
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It was the LiteFM that about finished me.
I'll be arranging some valium before I have that done again and I HATE valium.
So, you're so not the wimp. I'm impressed.
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