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    #16
    Seems these super-MRIs aren't exactly easy to take. There are some possible side-effects, including vertigo and nystagmus.

    Maybe if you don't have MS when you go into this 7T MRI machine, you may at least experience some of the symptoms before the MRI is over....

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    SPMS diagnosed 1980. Avonex 2001-2004. Copaxone 2006-2009. Glatopa (glatiramer acetate = Copaxone) since December 2020.

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      #17
      I just learned that my brain MRI next week is in the Tesla 7 and the spinal one is in the Tesla 3. I’m a little scared of the 7.

      ANN
      There comes a time when silence is betrayal.- MLK

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        #18
        Ann, don't be scared of new technology. It wouldn't have been created, and passed all the ridged tests it went through, if it wasn't safe. It's just more powerful, but gives a better view of what's going on with your brain. It will feel just like the MRIs you've had before.
        "Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist."

        Albert Einstein

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          #19
          Howie, you sound like the voice of experience here. You must have had one of these MRIs with the new machine?

          If so, everyone here is waiting for the MRI report to be posted. But take your time. No need to rush. We can wait till tomorrow.

          I think there's some cause for concern about the MRI procedure using the 7 Tesla machine though. A big concern seems to be that the machine overheats. Wonder if that means that the patient inside that machine overheats as well?

          But if there's a need to know what's going on with a person's MS, it's probably worth risking the side effects of the procedure, and it does sound as if those side effects (nystagmus, vertigo, etc.) are temporary.
          SPMS diagnosed 1980. Avonex 2001-2004. Copaxone 2006-2009. Glatopa (glatiramer acetate = Copaxone) since December 2020.

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            #20
            Ann, Howie is nice to try and make you feel better about the Tesla 7 machine. I know you feel a lot better now that he says you should not be afraid. And as Agate pointed out he will be posting his MRI taken with the Tesla 7 any day now. Why, based on his recommendation I would go in one anytime.
            Virginia

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              #21
              Me too, Virginia. I volunteer Howie to be the first one to try the 7 Tesla MRI.
              SPMS diagnosed 1980. Avonex 2001-2004. Copaxone 2006-2009. Glatopa (glatiramer acetate = Copaxone) since December 2020.

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                #22
                There was a time when I would have been fascinated at the inner workings and status of my brain and would have relished the opportunity to get inside a 7.0 tesla magnet.

                Now...not so much. I just can't see any therapeutic benefit to knowing the intricacies and extent of decline anymore and I've lost my inquisitiveness, maybe because I am very aware that it's just not going to show anything good, since that's not what such microscopic examination is intended to show.

                So, I'd have to say I'd pass unless I was having very worrisome non-MS symptoms that were not explainable on a 3.0 machine.
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                  #23
                  Hey, what happened to the fillings in my teeth? AGATE!!!
                  "Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist."

                  Albert Einstein

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                    #24
                    I feel exactly the same way, SuzE-Q. It might have been fascinating some years ago. Nowadays I don't mind thinking of the MS as something that is there and that is going to do what it's going to--and it's up to no good, but why poke around so much to find out what it's doing? I no longer turn up rocks to see what's crawling around under them either. Been there, done that.

                    Howie, I plead innocent about your fillings. I suggest you question that cat. She looks like a perp to me.
                    SPMS diagnosed 1980. Avonex 2001-2004. Copaxone 2006-2009. Glatopa (glatiramer acetate = Copaxone) since December 2020.

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                      #25
                      Originally posted by SuzE-Q View Post
                      There was a time when I would have been fascinated at the inner workings and status of my brain and would have relished the opportunity to get inside a 7.0 tesla magnet.

                      Now...not so much. I just can't see any therapeutic benefit to knowing the intricacies and extent of decline anymore and I've lost my inquisitiveness, maybe because I am very aware that it's just not going to show anything good, since that's not what such microscopic examination is intended to show.

                      So, I'd have to say I'd pass unless I was having very worrisome non-MS symptoms that were not explainable on a 3.0 machine.

                      Hello,
                      I liked your response probably because I agree with it! However, I am frustrated with MRIs that show no bright and shiny lesions when my progression is obvious. So I remember my very first MRI almost 30 years ago and the dozens of now dark stars that dotted my brain. And I know that a machine that can search deeper would be more accurate.

                      But I too am not sure what I would do with that information. There does come a point.....not when we stop fighting but maybe it is when we stop grabbing at every hope dangled before us. More selective grabbing?

                      Anyway, just babbling but thanks for sparking thoughts.
                      Linda
                      Linda~~~~

                      Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says:"Oh Crap, She's up!"..

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                        #26
                        I had two MRIs last month, ordered by two different doctors. Both showed the same obvious fact: my MS is progressing, more lesions are appearing in more places affecting different areas of the brain, like my speech and language skills. The doctors told me it wasn't so much to confirm that I had M S as it was to support further support.o,..
                        Last edited by Catdancer; 05-12-2019, 11:03 AM.

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                          #27
                          I am due for a brain MRI next month. I think neuro wants to see what is responsible for my regression in Cognitition: To be sure it’s not just he muscle relaxants doing this to me.

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                            #28
                            I had a brain MRI in Brigham’s T 7 last week. New to me was a release for the gadolinium (? sp). They said it was not a release but just an info sheet but I had to sign it so I believe it is a release.

                            The machine is longer and narrower than the T 3. There is no room for headphones. They mentioned that the only other difference is that the test takes 15 minutes longer than the T3. They did have music playing in the room that I thought I could hear better than when I had headphones. I had none of the immediate side effects.

                            After that, I was escorted to a T 3 machine for the spinal MRI.

                            No results yet. I see the MS specialist on Thursday.

                            ANN
                            Last edited by stillstANNding; 05-13-2019, 05:18 AM.
                            There comes a time when silence is betrayal.- MLK

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                              #29
                              Good news that you had no side effects for the T7 Ann.
                              Virginia

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