Topic: Has anyone had a symptoms increase after an MRI?
lymebytes
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Ok I am checking in as promised...
Metallic Blue asked me to check back when symptoms subsided.
If you have not read all my posts, please remember NONE of this started to effect me until hours after the MRI. I was totally and completely relaxed during the procedure and had no clue of what would start that evening and last the next 2 weeks! I refuse the Gadolinium (IV dye)to ensure a safe MRI and this still happened.
It took 2 weeks to recover from the MRI.
I spoke with the nuero radiologist Md (not a tech an MD)..he said some people have sensitivities to MRI's - I sound like one of them. He also admitted that Mri's have only been around 25-30 years and they do not know of all the dangers yet!!
He explained that it is true body temp is raised and the magnetic field can be irritating to some as well as the radio frequencies and the peripheral nerve stimulation.
I am not the first he said, and not the last to have a symptoms increase.
I had a lot of painful neuropathy the past two weeks, (it really has been horrible) that felt like bee stings everywhere, shooting pains, muscle spasms in my legs very bad - even though the MRI was of my brain, I had symptoms all throughout my body and it just wrecked my legs even more.
I think I can safely say it has as subsided now and I am back to "lyme normal" I..
I will never do any test like this again.... I HEAR YA KEEBLER!!! Never!!! I don't care if I am dying either..
I have spoken to several people through p/m...2 weeks seems to be the "normal".
I don't think this was a herx...I think it was quite irritating to a sensitive, painful body.
Hope other's I have heard from recover quickly.
Please remember the following: MRI uses a large magnet and radio frequency coils to create cross-sectional images or "slices" of the body. The magnet used is approximately 30,000 times stronger than the earth's magnetic field and as such, can actually pull the molecules of the body into alignment with it. Radio frequencies are then beamed across the body to cause these molecules to vibrate, or "resonate", and give off a radio signal of its own. Specialized coils then collect these signals and make an image of the area being scanned. Side effects include, peripheral nerve stimulation, agitation, anxiety, nausea, dizziness and more
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This is so interesting! My daughter had a Brain MRI Monday and has been flat on her back with pain at an 11 ever since. She was managing pain pretty well with MS Contin 3 x day until the MRI. Now we can't get it to calm down at all. I never thought about the MRI or the dye. I think there is a connection.
BTW she just had heavy metal urine testing and does not have any metals in her body.
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lymebytes
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Connie, Thanks for responding here and thanks for letting us know she has no heavy metals. One of my suspicions was maybe some of us that are sensitive have heavy metals..that is good to know.
I am sorry she is pain..NOTHING helped me either, not xanax, oxycontin, vicodin, nothing! Ibuprofen took the edge off - but it was all worthless.
I hope she feels better soon, I wish more would report back that have recently had a bad experience and let us know how long it took to feel better.
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Weird. In the times Ive had an MRI, Ive actually felt better afterwards.
I would question if its not the magnetic field, then perhaps its related to the contrast or saline solution.
When I was laying there and they injected the solution into me, I immediately felt it going through my skull. I noted that to the assistant, but he probably figured I was a nut. My theory is that the saline solution is running through the different parts of the brain, killing off the infection as it goes along. It would sense because if you have a sore throat, you gargle salt water to sooth the throat, and kill of the crud.
When people talk about salt and Vitamin C, isn't that a similiar thing? Salt to kill it, Vit C as the antioxidant?
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