Re: How to prepare for an MRI with contrast

[Guest guest]

Betty

I haven't had an MRI with contrast, although I've had a number of

MRIs. But I have had plenty of tests requiring various types of

contrast. Every one of them upset my digestion (and nervous system)

for a few days, and usually took me a week to get back on track. The

tests are important, so I always took them and just coped with the

problems afterwards.

About the only thing that I can suggest to help with the after-effects

is to switch to the softest, easiest-to-digest foods for your body for

a few days to a week. I found it helped. I rested as much as I could

afterwards as well. Just made things as easy for my body systems,

including my digestion, as I could.

I have had a pelvic MRI, but it was without contrast. I was glad I

had it as it identified a major problem with my ovarian cysts, and I

was rushed into surgery a week later... The tests are important.

Hope all goes well with your test.

Kim M.

SCD 5 years

>

> Hi There,

>

> I'm having to have a pelvic MRI with and without contrast. Last

time I had contrast (in

> August), I was in the bathroom the rest of the day. Is there

anything I can do to help myself

> or make the experience easier? I'm having an MRI to investigate a

fibroid on my uterus so it's

> important for me to have it done.

>

> MANY thanks,

> Betty

>

[Guest guest]

At 01:54 PM 11/6/2008, you wrote:

I'm having to have a pelvic MRI

with and without contrast. Last time I had contrast (in August), I was in

the bathroom the rest of the day. Is there anything I can do to help

myself or make the experience easier?

If you are drinking a liquid that they give you, that liquid is chock

full of SCD-illegals. You can take some white grape juice with you

(diluted already) and request that they mix the contrast with it,

instead. That's what I did when I had to have contrast for my gall

bladder seven years ago.

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Marilyn

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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