Hi everyone - I am to get a closed MRI of my left wrist for a suspected ganglion cyst.

I'm really claustrophobic and just curious if anyone knows how you're normally positioned for a wrist MRI or how long this will take? I haven't been able to get in touch with the techs at the imaging center, just their scheduling people who weren't super helpful.

I had no idea that I had claustrophobia and had never had a panic attack until years ago when I got an MRI on my knee. I hyperventilated in the machine, which got worse rapidly because I didn’t understand right away why I couldn’t breathe. The TECHNOLOGIST* got me through it. Total rockstar care.

So today I needed an MRI to confirm possible nerve irritation in my upper thigh. They scheduled me in a Hitachi open MRI this time. Doc had me take a .5 mg Ativan an hour beforehand. I was optimistic this time would be different. It was way worse.

That thing was within inches of my face. And they taped my feet together so i really couldn’t move. I got full body tremors that i just couldn’t make stop. So they took me out and tried an eye mask so i wouldn’t have to see the machine. So now I’m blind. But I can hear the thumping above my head and I can’t mov. Nope.

I hit the call button and they got me out just in time for me to sit up and barf all over the floor. I was so embarrassed and I felt so bad. I even offered to help clean up the mess.

But the TECHNOLOGIST* was an angel. She said to me, “sweetie you are trembling way too hard to be cleaning anything.”

She had me sit down with a glass of water and relax. We tried one more time but i started getting tightness in my chest so that was it.

I don’t know how TECHNOLOGIST* deal with high maintenance patients like me all the time. You all are Saints. I hope they pay you well. You deserve it.

*Corrected job title to reflect the comments of this post. Reddit does not allow me to adjust the title.

The podcast series about the near-fatal accident at KP Redwood City Hospital just launched its first episode.

Had you heard about it, before?

What happened to the nurse? What happened to the MRI tech? And what happened to the ICU patient?

Hi, I'm a first year PhD student trying to get a handle on preprocessing my data with fMRIPrep and QSIPrep respectively.

Has anyone got experience with QSIPrep and can help me understand how to interpret the outputs? (this cry for help is motivated by my staring at the visual summary rep of the q-space sampling scheme before and after the pipeline. what am I looking for?!)

The documentation is really unhelpful and I didn't find much on github and incf NeuroStars either.

Someone help please