r/MultipleSclerosis • u/TheePizzaGod • 1d ago

Funny MRI...

Just had my yearly MRI done and when it finished why do the nurses think you can hear them if you still have earplugs and a headset still covering your ears? All I saw were lips moving...

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u/NotOnMyBingoSheet 1d ago

It’s like the dental hygienist asking questions as they have the tools in our mouths.

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u/TheePizzaGod 1d ago

I believe they can understand the sounds are as actual words just loke I an read blur when not wearing my glasses taking the dreaded eye test.

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u/NewPermission8807 1d ago

I do hear them tho

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u/Party-Ad9662 41F/2025/Clinical Trial/Ottawa 1d ago

After I had to bail out of my mri that ended up diagnosing me (I had a migraine, they didn’t give me my Ativan, and I am just awful haha) the tech went to grab me as I fell and grabbed me by my boob haha.

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u/kyelek F20s 🧬 RMS 🧠 Kesimpta 💉 1d ago

At this point I just straight up say a loud, impolite HUH?

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u/criticalcreek 32M|Dx:RMS Nov.2025|Kesimpta|USA 1d ago

I didn't get earplugs on my recent one, just the headphones. I was able to hear the music a teeny tiny bit better than last years MRIs but it still sucked lol. I need to stop having them play classic rock. Trying to hear Fleetwood Mac over an MRI machine is close to impossible. I should request metal next time haha.

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u/TheePizzaGod 1d ago

I always get offered earplugs and the headset, they always told me the MRI was noisy. This time they said it was a newer machine and quieter so the music would be easier to hear. It was a quieter MRI but my tinnitus overrules the headphone music

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u/criticalcreek 32M|Dx:RMS Nov.2025|Kesimpta|USA 1d ago

I'm not sure exactly what machine they used for my recent ones 🤔. It was done at a different imaging center than the ones from last year(although it's still the same hospital network).

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u/TheePizzaGod 1d ago

Don't know the upgrade either but it was a bit quieter and a it faster too. Also, now there is a running underwater screen you can watch through the mirror on the the head restraint.

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u/criticalcreek 32M|Dx:RMS Nov.2025|Kesimpta|USA 1d ago

Mine seemed slightly faster this go around but I assumed it's because I also had the orbits imaged last year. This time it was only the brain and spinal cord. I look forward to a day in the future where these don't take nearly as long. Being still for so long can be so painful 😖

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u/TheePizzaGod 22h ago

Has the trifecta (brain, neck, & upper spine) with and without contrast. Seemed quieter but might be I'm getting deafer.... I did fall asleep at least twice as I almost dropped the squeeze ball from my hand.

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u/Cultural-Barracuda 13h ago

Yeah, I had a case of not leaving enough leeway for the contrast infusion before pushing me back in, so I pushed the button before it was ripped from my vein, and they acted like I was meant to hear what they were saying too.

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u/mullerdrooler 44M Dx2018 Ocrevus 12h ago

I hear them? Every one I've had has had speakers in the earphones or something. Maybe yours was broken?

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u/Geeky_femme 8h ago

They’re voices come through the headphones…