Cancer Treatment Options Forum - May 23rd, 2011 - 2 Comments
How will the injection for my mri be given to me?
i am getting a second mri done (the first one was without injection, at a clinic.) the doctor wants another one, but this time with a injection. it will be done at the children’s hospital because im only 13. the mri is for my right shoulder.
will i just get a needle or a iv?
do i have to spend the day at the hospital before hand because when my dad had cancer he had to spend the day there because of the injection to get through his body.
any stories about injection mris?
It will be given through an IV, you shouldn’t need to spend the day there. The IV can hurt a little going in but once it is in you will forget about it. When the contrast dye enters your body you may feel warmth ot tingling and sometimes is feels like you have wet yourself but you won’t have. I have had several CT scans but never and MRI but I am having one on monday for and ear problem.
MRI Stands for Magnetic Resonance Imaging; once call Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging. The "Nuclear" was dropped off about 15 years ago because of fears that people would think there was something radioactive involved, which there is not.
Some patients will be given an injection in their arm of a substance that improves certain types of pictures. This substance, called a "contrast agent", is very safe and is unrelated to the iodine used for CAT scans and kidney x-rays
Good Luck!!!!