But I had a little panic when it was Billy Joel for the first 15 seconds.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    5 hours ago

    Your problem is that you were not listening to ‘Welcome to The Machine’ by Pink Floyd whilst in the MRI.

    Just, uh, start the track the instant you put the headphones on and get on the bed, I swear the timing lines up perfectly.

  • sexybenfranklin@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    5·
    10 hours ago

    I wasn’t even given an option for sound, the guy told me the headphones were just for communicating. I just tanked 30 minutes in the tube with nothing but the sound of vibrations.

  • GingerGoodness@lemmy.world
    7·
    11 hours ago

    Last time I went I could only choose between local radio stations. Unfortunately I spent the last 5 minutes listening to a news report about a murder victim being found in a ditch near the hospital. I think I’ll pick silence next time.

  • BlueÆther@no.lastname.nz
    10·
    13 hours ago

    I honestly cant remember what the sound was like in the first MRI I had.

    Had just broken and dislocated up my shoulder and they wanted it rotated out - up there with the most painful things ever experienced

  • CameronDev@programming.dev
    7·
    14 hours ago

    I usually ask for silence for the same reason, better to try just close eyes and meditate/dissociate through it. Was your head inside the machine? Pretty claustrophobic either way, but head first is particularly not nice.

    • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.worksOP
      2·
      4 hours ago

      Yeah, I was head first but I’m OK with confined spaces. The little bullseye right in front of my eyes was a little weird though.

      • CameronDev@programming.dev
        3·
        50 minutes ago

        Hah, I forgot about the bullseye. I have one of my brain, I was hoping to find a way to convert the images to a model so I could 3D print it, but didn’t find a good way to convert it sadly.

        hopefully your scan shows nothing serious, and you get some cool pictures :)

        • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.worksOP
          3·
          30 minutes ago

          It’s back problems caused by a lifetime of labor. Next is CT to show the squishy bits. I personally don’t think I’ll get out of this without surgery but if like one dose of cortisol does it I’m down. Just don’t want to be on that subscription plan where I have to get the injections twice a year.

          Thanks for the good thoughts.

  • __siru__@discuss.tchncs.de
    11·
    15 hours ago

    Was it really the headphones being low quality or is the MRI just so loud that any headphones would sound terrible?

    • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.worksOP
      26·
      15 hours ago

      Well, no metal in there so it’s just piped in over air tubes like the old-school airline headphones. The speaker is at the outside end of the tube and the user just gets to hear whatever comes down that little rubber tube. They also give you a rubber ball to squeeze if you need to “press the button”.

      Interesting experience honestly, the headphones are definitely hearing protection and damn protective. I’m used to wearing hearpro and it was pretty damn loud. Operator told me it would sound like jackhammers but that’s not true. Voice from operator comes down the same pipe the music does, I had to actually parse what he said to me, it was like in a tunnel.