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• toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I soon expect to have screws implanted in my spine. I also have other infirmities. I hope like hell to never have screws ripped through my vertebrae by an MRI.

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  • Kornblumenratte@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Implants are non-magnetic. Wrecks the image, though.

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Hopefully they don’t need to do an MRI of my spine after they operate on it - apparently for their sake, not mine.

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      • Kornblumenratte@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        I hope you’ll recover quick and get rid of your health problems!

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  • HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ugh, yeah, how do they even do MRIs for people with metal parts?

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I think, as someone else said, things installed into the body are usually titanium and thus non ferrous. Fortunately they don’t generally cause issues with MRIs as a result.

      (I only know this because when I broke my ankle, during the pre-surgery interview, I asked the surgeon about going through metal scanners at an airport.)

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    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Non ferrous metal.

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• MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What are implants made of? Stainless for the most part.

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