Submitted 4 days ago by rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
But I had a little panic when it was Billy Joel for the first 15 seconds.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
Your problem is that you were not listening to ‘Wlecome to The Machine’ by Pink Floyd whilst in the MRI.
Just, uh, start the track the instant you put the headphones on, I swear the timing lines up perfectly.
You guys get music during your MRIs? I just get shitty foam earplugs :(
If you don’t ask, they default to Autechre
Autechre
Seems like it might work
Even though Second Bad Vilbel sounds like a CAT scan, I still love it
__siru__@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days 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.works 4 days 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.
Codpiece@feddit.uk 3 days ago
What have they got against Iron Maiden?
__siru__@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Oh, so that is how those headphones work. I had an MRI a long time ago as a child, and really can’t remember much about it at all.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Would you recommend podcasts instead?
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
thanks, I was wondering how it work