MRI has me concerned

[Guest guest]

Been away for a bit, trying to live life without thinking too much

about this thing called neuro sarc. Not that that's worked. Some

new symptoms over the past year, enough that the doc put me on

neurontin for the shooters and order an MRI of the head and c-spine.

I went for my MRI, ordered with and without contrast, yesterday. The

imaging dept did the scan without contrast then stopped. The scans

without contrast took almost 90 minutes which seemed awful long as

the entire process is typically complete in this amount of time. I

held very still and doubt movement was an issue. I asked about the

rest of the study and was told by the technician that the radiologist

reviewed the scans and determined that they had enough information so

contrast was not necessary. That is all the information they would

give me other than to say `contact your doctor'. I've had more MRIs

than I care to remember and have never had them stop half way.

Unnerving to say the least. Still haven't heard back from the

neuro.

Lots of questions…having worked in healthcare for many years, I know

enough that the radiologist can not over ride an order without the

attending's consent. Aside from cheesing off the attending,

deviating from an order opens up a can of worms liability wise.

Typically, studies are only stopped due to technical difficulties,

patient issues (i.e. trouble injecting the contrast) or sufficient

data available for a dx. I ruled out the first two which leaves the

later, hence a lot of nail biting on my part. I hope that I'm

overreacting. Has this ever happened to anyone else? Also, does

anyone have any links relating to the use of MRI studies and

neurosarc? I've done a bunch of searches but basically came up

empty. Any thoughts / help would be sincerely appreciated.

Peace, Tony

[Guest guest]

Tony, I always say don't worry over something you don't know yet, that's just wasting good worry time, so hang in there until you know something, and you just might find out you had nothing to worry about:)

I was on neurontin for years, I now take Lyrica for the same type of nerve pain. I will keep you in my prayers for good news, one thing I have found out with this disease, at least for me, is to deal with it one day at a time, because no two days are the same.

Marla

Been away for a bit, trying to live life without thinking too much

about this thing called neuro sarc. Not that that's worked. Some

new symptoms over the past year, enough that the doc put me on

neurontin for the shooters and order an MRI of the head and c-spine.

I went for my MRI, ordered with and without contrast, yesterday. The

imaging dept did the scan without contrast then stopped. The scans

without contrast took almost 90 minutes which seemed awful long as

the entire process is typically complete in this amount of time. I

held very still and doubt movement was an issue. I asked about the

rest of the study and was told by the technician that the radiologist

reviewed the scans and determined that they had enough information so

contrast was not necessary. That is all the information they would

give me other than to say `contact your doctor'. I've had more MRIs

than I care to remember and have never had them stop half way.

Unnerving to say the least. Still haven't heard back from the

neuro.

Lots of questions…having worked in healthcare for many years, I know

enough that the radiologist can not over ride an order without the

attending's consent. Aside from cheesing off the attending,

deviating from an order opens up a can of worms liability wise.

Typically, studies are only stopped due to technical difficulties,

patient issues (i.e. trouble injecting the contrast) or sufficient

data available for a dx. I ruled out the first two which leaves the

later, hence a lot of nail biting on my part. I hope that I'm

overreacting. Has this ever happened to anyone else? Also, does

anyone have any links relating to the use of MRI studies and

neurosarc? I've done a bunch of searches but basically came up

empty. Any thoughts / help would be sincerely appreciated.

Peace, Tony

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