Hi, I had one recently. The whole thing took about an hour. I think it was about 30 mins in the scanner.
They fill your bum (front and back) with jelly. It's a bit messy! Take a sanitary towel with you. They couldn't give me one and I oozed for some hours after. I had to go to work, which would have been fine, I just wasn't well prepared.
Very kind of you to ask..yes wasn't as bad as I thought..just went on A lot longer than I had anticipated that 1 hour ..
When I arrived went throu lots of questions ..then cannula done..dye in and in the tunnel ..it was a moblie Mir scan .very small ...
But all went well just tried to keep calm..even tried a nana nap ππ ..but too noisy .. going back to see specialist for results 1st August..x x
How are you
I had an MRI in May, but without the contrast dye.
Mine lasted about 35-40 mins in total.
If you feel like you might be at all claustrophobic my advice would be to close your eyes while laid down before you go into the machine and throughout. I did this and it really helped, I didn't open my eyes until I was back out of the machine.
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