Opened a letter this morning that looked like a hospital one desperately hoping for a stress MRI test !!!! It is an MRI but for my liver and gallbladder 🙄 wish we still had the barter system !!!!!!!
I haven’t looked up any details of the stress test in an MRI machine but have spoken to someone about their experience but wondered if anyone else can let me know what their experience was like ?
Good luck Fluffybee. Other organs are important too.
As far as I know from my experiences, these are 2 different tests: a stress test is usually on a treadmill while they monitor your heart. A cardiac MRI is magnetic resonance imaging of the heart detail: you lie in a noisy machine (you have ear muffs but take your own ear plugs too if you don't like loud noise). May I offer you some advice? I had looked up about gadolinium contrast dye (almost always used with MRI's nowadays) before my cardiac MRI in 2012 and did not like what I saw about it. But in 2012 its extreme toxicity to the body was not so well recorded. It is now known that, despite being told it is 'completely safe' it is a toxic heavy metal that everybody retains without fail, in the brain and nervous system and other tissues. Some people get immediate lifelong side effects, others don't but might after the 2nd gadolinium MRI. My life was changed forever after it: terrible nerve burning pain (common), loss of balance, imbalance of my hormonal systems and thyroid, circulatory changes, and more, the chronic pain the worst. Please see gadoliniumtoxicty.com and you can then decide if you are going to refuse the 'dye' or not. They do push it but it is not necessary for them to see what is needed. At very least ask for the leaflet with the dose they give so you know what was given (you'll be horrifed when you see the side effects listed on it!) but then if you get a reaction you have some comeback. I support & know many many people worldwide on the support site at the above link (also known as the Lighthouse Project run by Sharon Williams affected by gadolinium and done a great deal of research).
Best wishes, and if in doubt just call the department beforehand and find out are you having a stress test or MRI (and will it be with gadolinium).
I’m having the stress MRI with injection in the actual MRI machine.
You’ve made me panic now, I feel sick, now what am I going to do I need this test but now don’t want it at all, got enough wrong don’t want anymore !!!!!
Hi, don't panic, just be in charge of what is done and be informed beforehand. You should be the one to make decisions about what you go through & is injected into you. If it is simply the chemical to put stress on your heart, then that is fine, please don't panic. I've had several MRI's without gadolinium and it is fine. Just be informed about gadolinium that is all I'd say, and you have a right to refuse it, and they will see what they need to without it. (Pharmaceutical companies pay doctors to give it, and doctors genuinely don't understand the risks because pharma persuade them it is safe. It is now just normal protocol, but please do your own research.) Ring the department beforehand and ask - you can tell them what you will accept and won't accept. Please be informed, I was not and let them inject me with all sorts for a year. I am writing this because I care, not to panic you.
I had an MRI heart scan which lasted for 90 minutes after about an hour they injected in the dye which I didn’t feel at all. I did have a bit of a coughing episode towards the end of the procedure. I find it best if I have scans of any kind to just relax and do what they say because that’s the way they can really see what’s going on.
Wishing you well. ❤️
Hope you go on ok fluffybee.
I havn’t ever had a mri scan only a ct scan so can’t really help.
I’m sure the scan will reassure you that other organs in your body are working ok .
Let us know how you get on ,
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Hi, I'm having an MRI cardiac morphology function next week, does anyone know what this is please? It says i may be given an injection - contrast, is this what's been mentioned above?
Thanks 🙂
I had a stress cardiac MRI before my avr.
As others have said, I find it best to just relax. Midway through they injected something (?!) but luckily I didn’t have any nasty reaction.
Most difficult part for me was they kept telling me to breathe in and hold my breath. Time seemed to vary from about 5 seconds to about 20 secs. Because they have to give instructions you can’t just lie there and listen to music as with a normal MRI.
But they were very reassuring throughout and kept checking on
me.
Seriously it is one of the least invasive tests I had to undergo.
Good luck, I’m sure you’ll be fine 😊
I had forgotten the hold your breath bit 😬 I thought I was going to lay back and relax listening to music 🤭
So have I, didn't have a problem or any after effects. I believe that the liver can be affected by a poorly functioning heart.
All the best for your test.
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