As for the MRI… for anyone that isn’t clusterphobic at all, then it’s really just laying in a darker place with some headphones and odd sounds, really. For some people that situation could be completely relaxing, even. For someone that is clusterphobic to any degree, the experience gets more traumatic as the degree of clusterphobia they have increases. There are many accounts I have read where patients needed to be completely sedated for that procedure since being in that machine put them in a state of extreme panic. So I really do not think a difference in experiences for that procedure have any bearing on really anything at all as far as things go.
XXOO

Thanks for your comment.

I have no idea who you are or why you came to look at my blog, but I’m delighted that you did.

I am also very pleased for you that you have had such pleasant experiences during your obviously very stressful times, and am also very happy that I can provide a bar against which you can measure yourself, to make yourself seem stronger and more resilient than me.

If I am a pussy, then I’m sure this makes you a superhero, and I’m glad that makes you feel better. No really I am. Because if anything good can come out of me being in a country on the other side of the world from my friends and family, and going through some of the most frightening experiences of my life, then how can I possibly begrudge you this sense of self-righteousness?

I don’t know you and therefore can only assume that you don’t know me. As a result, I take your sweeping judgements of character about me with a sack of salt, and can only hope that one day, if you continue to read my blog, you will realise that not everybody can be as sturdy and confident about the things going on inside their bodies as you, and that this doesn’t make their experiences less valid.

Thank you for opening my mind.

George (the author)

I’ve chronic scoliosis, suffer from prolapsed discs regularly and have lived on high doses of morphine for years because of chronic back pain, along with 26 other drugs for various other health issues. As a result, I have MRIs done every six months and none have ever been what I would consider ‘traumatic’ in the slightest. In addition, because my womb chucked it eight years ago and the Docs in their infinate wisdom put me onto Zoladex (a drug that forced me into the menopause but shrank the fibroids that were growing at a ridiculous rate), however, prior to that I had several Mirena IUDs, all of which were fitted as an out patient without so much as an aspirin!!

Like Claire above, I drove my motorbike home afterwards, not cycled, without ill effect. I am therefore both stunned and somewhat disturbed that you had to go through such a performance for treatments and tests that are carried out on millions every day!! You are aware that you can go into the MRI scanner feet first therefore leaving your head out of the scanner? I suffer from claustrophobia so do not like my head being inside the machine, although initially suffered this until I asked if I could go in feet first, which has never been a problem since. I have also never been offered music and all my MRI scans have lasted over 35 minutes each time.

Anyone going for any tests is always apprehensive beforehand, you wouldn’t be human if you weren’t, however, I think this amount of nonesense for a very basic test and fitting of an IUD is somewhat extreme and I just hope that anyone reading this realises that there are options for having MRIs and having an IUD fitted is just mildly more uncomfortable than having a smear done, I used to have both done at the same time to save me having to have them done separately - smart thinking!! I’ve since had a hysterectomy am just in my 40s and took less medication to recover from my hysterectomy than you have been given for an MRI and an IUD!! I think it was Claire that stated “you pussy”?!!

Something here doesn’t make sense or they build us tough here in Scotland.

Glad you’re ok though hon!