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Bmoboy

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15. As to sedation

Reply to Bmoboy (Original post)

Mon Sep 18, 2023, 08:38 AM

Sep 2023

I am using a wheelchair due to lumbar spinal stenosis and increasing leg weakness.

If I took a healthy enough dose of Valium or Xanax to tolerate the claustrophobia of even an "open" MRI, i would be so out of it that i would be dead weight. Who is getting me into and out of my car and then into my house? My 72 year old wife?

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MRI denied [View all] Bmoboy Sep 2023 OP

You can ask you doctor for a prescription for 1 or 2 Xanax dlk Sep 2023 #1

Appreciate... and Bmoboy Sep 2023 #5

Understood dlk Sep 2023 #6

Thanks Bmoboy Sep 2023 #7

I did MRI and CT for years. The closed or tube MRI gives better diagnostic images to find out mitch96 Sep 2023 #13

What mitch 96 said, and Valium. Physics is a bitch mistress irisblue Sep 2023 #14

Oh, Delphinus Sep 2023 #2

You might inquire about having a CT scan. The other alternative is ask for a valium or find a JohnSJ Sep 2023 #3

Yes. My doc ordered open mri but the machine spooky3 Sep 2023 #4

My husband can't lay his head flat so his forehead touched the top which won't work at all. Srkdqltr Sep 2023 #8

My ex husband was put into the MOMFUDSKI Sep 2023 #9

I take Valium with no apologies. Lars39 Sep 2023 #10

Loud and took forever. marble falls Sep 2023 #11

I had one on my prostate a couple years ago. I told them I'd probably need something to no avail captain queeg Sep 2023 #12

As to sedation Bmoboy Sep 2023 #15

I have major issues with MRIs. ShazzieB Sep 2023 #16

I had an MRI last year to look for heart blockages. SlimJimmy Sep 2023 #17