Has anyone here had to have this done? I was scheduled to get one last Tuesday but chickened out. It is very scary. You have to be in the machine for an hour and a half. I had to be pulled out in 30 seconds. Now I am going back to have it redone this Tuesday and can't stop thinking about it. I have a headache since the last one from worrying :eek:
I called my cardio and he gave me Klonopin to take for the next one but what if it doesn't work? What have you done to get through doing this test?

Has anyone here had to have this done? I was scheduled to get one last Tuesday but chickened out. It is very scary. You have to be in the machine for an hour and a half. I had to be pulled out in 30 seconds.

I suffered through a Cardiac MRI for about an hour and a half. I don't know if they have enlarged it but when I was in it, the height of the MRI was about 3-4 inches from my face. It was terribly claustrophobic. Several times, at the beginning, I wanted to yell for them to get me out of the damned thing.

I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. That didn't work. The noise wouldn't let me. So....... what finally worked for me, and I had wished that I had thought of it sooner, was: The noise reminded me of being in a plane. So, with my eyes closed, I "pretended" that I was on a long plane flight. I kept my eyes closed and kept thinking that I was on a plane and started thinking about my previous plane trips. It worked for me. It's not something that I would want to do again, but I think that I could.

Good luck with yours! :wave:

Beerzoid thats pretty good advice

I had an MRI years ago but not for the heart for my brain (none was found j/k).Anyway,same thing for me the dang walls of the thing were very close to my face felt like I was in a cassket and that dreaded noise ugh.I hung in there though I came real close to screaming out.Try beerz advice or imagine another scenerio it really is a mind thing and our minds are very powerful.Also take some deep breaths in and out slowly through your mouth may help so you are not hyperventilating long as you can do this during a cardiac MRI.

best of luck you can do it!!

Dear lord,

What would happen to me in an environment like that would be the obsession with being locked alive in a casket and buried...or being stuck in a pipe underground.:dizzy: Just reading these 2 posts had me gasping for more air!

I couldn't hack it without being knocked out with pentathol.