Going for an MRI and the letter says I can bring 'a CD'

[ConstanzeMozart]

to listen to while I'm in. Do they literally and only mean a CD? I don't own any any more! I can't remember the last time I used one. Is there any chance I could airdrop them a podcast or an audiobook for them to play me instead?

I took a group of young people on an international trip a few years ago. When we said "you can bring a dvd for the coach", one of them said "whats a dvd?!" 😭

Oh MRI experts on this thread a little advice required.
I am due to have a MRI soon ( I hope as I was referred on the urgent pathway but still have not got a date 2 weeks later ,,,,)
Can I ask if I will need to remove my very small but stuck wedding ring?

I had a 75 minute MRI last December, no music offered or playing. It was fine, I actually fell asleep a couple of times.

I had another 20 minute one at a different location in the same hospital last week. I put the headphones on and they were playing Smooth bloody Radio of all things. I had no chance to object as I moved back into the scanner!

I would take 75 minutes of scanner noise every single day above Smooth Radio. Urgh...

What part of your body?

They get very preoccupied with the idea that any metal on you is going to get hot and hurt you

I had to take bracelets off the other week even though they were silver and down by my side and it was a head scan

I have music on in the background all day when I’m working, and listen to music when I’m swimming, but my musical taste is fairly narrow and I don’t think I could cope with a long scan with classical or pop music blaring out, whereas I find it makes the time go much quicker when I take my own CDs to drown out some of the clunks of the scanner.

Yes you definitely will!

My shoulder - I better go and get it cut off then as it has not been off in four decades and that's the only way it is coming off.

'Complete with adverts' 😄😄

Maybe it is for people who still use CDs, i just had the radio on when I went for mine.

Fair enough in that case. I have a very wide taste in music, not many genres I dont like, possibly countryish music but even then theres caveats.

And for some reason Im sort of mesmerised by the clanking and beeping. I like to count the seconds to see if Im right about how long each scan is going to take when the lady says 'this will be 2 minutes long'

Ive got three rings which I can’t get off and the radiographer puts tape over them each time I have a scan.

😄

I hope they can stream me something too!

I had an mri recently and they said I could bring a cd. I asked if they could put the radio on, which they did. Mine was a very long process in the scanner - 75 mins - so it’s good to listen to something you want to, and help distract from the claustrophobia and boredom. But it is hard to hear over all the banging.

Oh thanks. Maybe I can keep it on then. I'll ask if I ever get a date.
I thought the urgent pathway meant you would be seen in less than 3 weeks but nothing received so far.

My last MRI they now have fancy machines where you have a screen in front of your face and you can watch a dvd! Ice Age was already queued up so I happily watched that for 45 minutes!

They will be able to give you something to listen to, an MRI doesn't last that long so it doesn't much matter what it is.

My last MRI was 35 minutes long and I asked to listen to The Spice Girls.

Hope it goes well @ConstanzeMozart I know you said you had the radio on before. I had that and I quite liked it as it helped to tell the time thereby helping me think how long was left. I knew I went in about 11.30 and when the news at noon came on, I knew I’d nearly done.

I asked for one of my favourite bands and seriously regret it. Since getting a diagnosis I have bad scananxiety and now whenever I hear their music I think of the mri machine! I think depends reason for scan

I think 75 minutes was a really long time!

Wow, I missed the 75 minutes. That is a long time. Mine have never been longer than half an hour.

I think it depends on what you are having scanned. Mine was a whole body one. I think a brain one is 45 minutes. If it’s just a shoulder or something it should be less.

It’s music to keep you calmer and give you something to listen to other than the noise of the machine.

I wasn’t given the option of a CD, and the people doing mine put on rap music, which wasn’t in any way relaxing. I wouldn’t have thought you could hear an audio book very well over the machine itself.

But the rap annoyed me slightly less than the sound of the machine, so I didn’t complain ;) plus, I was concentrating on not panicking, or spreading my legs and flashing my bits in the gown to anyone, as it was to check for cancer spread. Thankfully there was none.

Hope it goes ok for you OP, and sure they will have music even if you don’t manage to find a cd of your own.

Just listen to the radio or whatever. That's what I did. Zone out. It's not that long.