CT Scans
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NorthStand95
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I had an MRI on my heart last year and was in for 95 minutes. They didn’t put any music on either so was just me and my thoughts. Every time I started to go to sleep the machine moved 
Hope your foot gets better.
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Hope your foot gets better.
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Corcaigh_the_Cat
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Did you screw it on anti clockwise?
Caesium137
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Sat CT scanning as I type. Count yourself lucky, some of ours can take 30 hours!
festa5
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I had an MRI on my heart last year and was in for 95 minutes. They didn’t put any music on either so was just me and my thoughts. Every time I started to go to sleep the machine moved
Hope your foot gets better.
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Christ.
I'm a bit claustrophobic and hated the experience. Had 2 MRIs on my back/hip and only lasted 20 mins but felt like an enternity. Felt like I was on the edge of flipping out for the duration. Much longer and not sure I'd have kept it together!
Caesium137
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Christ.
I'm a bit claustrophobic and hated the experience. Had 2 MRIs on my back/hip and only lasted 20 mins but felt like an enternity. Felt like I was on the edge of flipping out for the duration. Much longer and not sure I'd have kept it together!
To be fair I should have said, I'm more industrial radiography, I scan subsea oil and gas pipelines!
chickenrunner
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That must be some limp.
starplayer
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80 mins for a CT. You will be glowing in the dark with that much radiation 
festa5
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Argh, can't decide if this is the joke or you've left the obvious joke just hanging there for someone else to tap in
sadgit
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this was what I was thinking! Just call me Homer..80 mins for a CT. You will be glowing in the dark with that much radiation
Teesside_Steel
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I’ve had a few as part of my cancer treatment. Used to say they were putting me through the photocopier again.
TheLodger
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Yep, I can see where you're coming from, but, nope it's no joke. £400 for a pet CT scan.Argh, can't decide if this is the joke or you've left the obvious joke just hanging there for someone else to tap in
festa5
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HarryVegas
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Had one to detect the extent of a stroke I had in 2011. Took about half an hour. It was the barely masked clanging sounds I remember. Half an hour of that and I was ready to write my will!
NoloBoro
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Had one last week, injected with an iodine solution halfway through which was a really strange sensation, felt like you’d ***ed yourself, to be honest it was a piece of cake having had a cystoscopy (Google it) half an hour before, anything after that can be described as pleasant.
Took about 40 minutes
Took about 40 minutes
junos_boots
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The PET scans are another thing as well and I bet they cost even more. Had my brain scanned many times in the various machines and the knocking noise in Mri are the worst in that tiny little tunnel that you go in head first for a brain scan
festa5
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I had one last year and apart from it being much shorter for me sounds like the same experience.
The first one I had a few years before that was a "mobile scanner" in a trailer in the hospital car park. Made the mistake of opening my eyes once during that one. Didn't do that again
According to the NHS website sometimes they'll give you headphones to listen to music and mask to cover your eyes.... but I had none of that available for mine. That's probably more a private hospital experience I'm guessing!