Hey Geneva, you’re not nuts. Those magnets are super strong! I had similar effects happen to me during my MRI but I couldn’t even finish my test! I hope your results were favorable and you never need another MRI!
Hi Tina,
I’m with you, there’s definitely effects on the body after an MRI. It took me nearly 24 hours for the dizziness, headache, and muscle tightness to stop. Mine was a breast MRI and cage they make you lay on, stomach down still hurts! Call it vertigo, call it whatever, I nearly passed out in the closed MRI machine I was in… in pool of sweat because it made me so hot. The tech told me I didn’t drink enough water before I came in… highly doubt it… and if this is a known issue, why not tell patients before hand? Or get me an ice pack so my body temp doesn’t get so high.
yeah i havent felt the same sensations as youll see in my prevoius messages however i thought the same thing about the sedative idea but as i say above i tried it anyway and it worked. its up to you if you want to try the sedative an see.
Very interesting to read everyones story. i just had my left ankle scanned. during the magnetic part of the mri i experienced a strange buzzing/tingling/shooting feeling deep with my leg which spread up my body on the left side right up to my face, i experienced different sensations at different levels throughout the scan.
There is something called magnetoception where people can sense magnetic fields , maybe its this?
OCR
Wow! Wish I had read this before getting my MR exams this morning, though I don’t know any alternative options I could have pursued.
Your post and these responses are the only instances like mine I’m seeing on the web, and it’s at least reassuring to know others have had similar experiences. I was undergoing simultaneous MRI, MRA, and MRV exams for some mysterious and unexplained head pressure I’ve been having on and off for the past five years at the base of my skull. About halfway through my exam, I started to feel a pulsing sensation through my head and body as if my heartbeat had been magnified. In the moment, I assumed that this and the sharp stabbing pain in the back off my head were likely due to my awkward position on the table, and my usual overanalysis. Minutes later, I could feel this pushing and pulling sensation all over the inside my head, different parts of my head with each different set of sounds. More painful than the other areas, the sharp pain in the back of my head became an intense buzzing and tingling sensation. During the last few set of sounds (about 10min), that intensified further into a full-on burning sensation that radiated through my head. It felt as though my head was inside of a microwave. The pain grew worse and worse, and I considered squeezing the alarm signal the examiner gave me, but I knew the exam was almost over and did not want to risk corrupting whatever data they had already collected, so I pushed through. What’s worse is, while one of the doctor’s brushed it off and said my dizziness (not what I told her I was experiencing) was perfectly normal and mostly in my head, I spoke with another one of the examiners before leaving who affirmed what I explained feeling and said that some patients experience different sensations as a result of the magnetism of the iron in their brain, and that some can even experience a heating sensation which can raise the examined area by 1-2° in temperature during the exam.
I seriously wonder what would happen to a person’s brain under an MRI just 1-2 hours longer. Scary thoughts… I’m hoping to feel back to normal soon, and really hoping this exam was conclusive so I don’t have to do any further exams.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I would love to know how you’re feeling now, years later, and if any related pains or sensations have arisen since your scan?
Sounds like you need a lot of rest and drink plenty of fluids. I do not think its anything serious.
Hi there. I made an account just to reply. I had an MRI today on my brain and felt this same sort of experience.
I had my eyes closed for most of the MRI and saw a very bright blue light and this is going to sound completely nutty, when the pressure was increasing in my skull I saw a liquid silver sphere with someone in standing in the distance and the pretty blue sky. Sounds so weird, my body started twitching and the tech wanted me to hold my figure with the monitor attached still. I was not moving.
I have had this sharp pain in my head since.
I hope you are feeling better.
I had mri brain 4 days ago.Burning pains in scalp since.
Mri department denied it.
I don’t know what to do. Will my scalp become crepy or scarred? Will it cause hair loss?
Has it affected my brain?
How can I treat it?
Please help!
I too experienced this today for my brain MRI. I even asked the technician if it’s normal to feel the waves/magnets moving around and my scalp or things inside my brain feeling like it’s about to break thru my scalp towards to machine , he gave me a look like I’m crazy and said “that’s one way to described it" but didn’t answered the question so he probably thought i was crazy. But i don’t care if the most genius tells me otherwise I KNOW what i experienced today and it was very freaky. I’m neither claustrophobic nor anxious i know what i experience. I’m glad in not the only one. it was actually painful when the pulling happened. you have much more knowledge of the MRI i just know I’m scared to go get the other 2.
Just FYI, I had to end a MRI very early today as the pulling feeling above my right eyebrow was intense and scared me as well. They tried a second go around and I pushed the emergency button immediately as it was to intense and I was unsure of serious injury from this feeling. I have had a sinus type headache all day now and very tired and napped for an hour, i’m a high energy person. Just thought I would chime in. My MRI was for my shoulder and I’m not sure what my doctor will suggest now.
i just had 3 MRIs and quickly went searching for whether you could feel the MRI inside your body. I had a few distinct moments of interest. First during the one before I had contrast, when one of the lower tones was happening, everything in my right side started twitching to the pulsating rhythm. I am in the machine to understand my muscle twitching and jerking to begin with, so it was so odd for my muscles to sound off
like that during the test. After they added contrast, I could feel a sensation on my left hip and it felt like my bones and tissues were being pulled toward the machine. (Maybe heavy metals in our bodies??) I definitely had multiple warm sensation on my upper torso as well. I was having brain, neck and spine MRIs. I could definitely tell when it was looking at my brain. I was very dizzy upon leaving the bed and very tired. sounds similar to what others have experienced.
I’m so happy I came across this forum. Everyone I’ve explained my experience to has brushed it off.
I had a pelvic and abdominal MRI yesterday. Although a bit nervous when I went it, I wore an eye mask and couldn’t see the tube at all, and found the beginning fairly relaxing. As I lay there I swear I could feel each scan as it went through different parts of my body, because I felt a slight pressure and warmth as it targeted different areas. But when it went over my upper torso (just beneath my breasts) I felt an intense pressure and pain on my left side (possibly where my stomach is?) - like something was constricting and pressing the area. Then I felt the scan move down and I felt an intense pain across my torso. The pain was very specific/targeted - it felt like a horizontal line of pressure across my waist, and it was incredibly painful, so much that I considered pressing the panic button, but breathed through it because I didn’t want to mess up the work that had already been done. Anyhow, after that experience the pain subsided, and I felt the scans hitting my back area - I felt pressure and warmth, but no pain.
When the MRI was finished I mentioned the pain/pressure on my upper left side/across my waist and the MRI technologist said she’d never heard of that before, and we left it there. By the time I came home I felt nauseous and extremely drained - to the point where I had to take a nap. I now feel largely fine, but have been getting periodical shots of pain in the same area, 24 hrs later. Anyhow, I’m sure it will subside, but everywhere I search says MRI’s themselves don’t cause pain, so I am quite confused.
i literally felt almost the same thing apart from the being rolled only the one side and stuff. but i could feel the pictures being taken like slice by slice was such a strange sensation and the parts of the brain being stimulated.
Im a 27yo healthy female not claustrophobic and I dont want to say much but the brain scan was due to an injury from DV…
afterwards i felt queezy and dizzy. its been about 6 hours, Ive now got a slight migraine and finding it hard to sleep even though im tired.
i can still half feel where the really loud part was taking pictures of the front sides of my head close the temples. i do want to know this sensation did your results cone back with abnormalities.
Hi,
I had a MRI today and experienced everything you said, except feeling like my body was turned. My eyes did the same and I closed my eyes to try to relieve the pain.
Jessica, I had the same thing today while getting my MRI. However, I attribute to something I’ve been working on for 3 months now. I have always had a 6th sense and have been working with severs mediums to understand it better. I never thought for one second this would happen! But I felt the energy going through my brain in waves, moving from side to side at first. As the pulses changed, I could feel it move to a new spot (front to rear) in tiny sections It was like they did 1/2 of my frontal lobe back to just past my ear and then to the other side. Several sections near my ears I saw purple flashes and blue, very faintly though. But I could feel pressure inside my head just above the right eye. I have a slight headache. Fogginess and a little shaky. I’ve had MRI before and other than loud and cramped I was fine. I described the feeling to my wife and the Tech before we left and decided to search it and found you. I felt every dissection they did.
The enclosed space, the lights, the whirring sounds and the disquiet quiet of the lab environment can all result in the illusory colors of phosphenes.
In general, MRI scanners are capable of producing a damaging dose of acoustic noise and are forbidden, by regulation, from producing noise levels (140 dB) capable of immediate hearing loss. Therefore, hearing protection is essential and appropriate solutions are widely available.
In conclusion, MRI devices produce noise that may impair the hearing system of operators and patients with such symptoms as tinnitus, headache, ear pain, and dizziness.
In a new study published in Current Biology online on Sept. 22, a team led by Johns Hopkins scientists suggests that MRI’s strong magnet pushes on fluid that circulates in the inner ear’s balance center, leading to a feeling of unexpected or unsteady movement.
Some MRI scans involve having an injection of contrast agent (dye). This makes certain tissues and blood vessels show up more clearly and in greater detail. Sometimes the contrast agent can cause side effects, such as: feeling or being sick.
For the real truth they either do a ct scan that causes radiation or mri scan that will hurt your body physcialy and metnali they keep using the old mri scans that mess up your body just to steal money from the insurance companys and hurt people thats why they quiet like mice when you tell them whats going on there just another pricetag better get a ct scan and get radiation than having the side effect of mri the loud noise messes up your hearing in your brain which includes your third eye it will take two or more weeks to get better from the noise and other symptons if you had a iv injection
yes, similar reaction to being fried by magnetic waves. Felt very sick and had to sleep for a whole day to feel somewhat normal. Did not get any toxic dyes injected for it either, just fried sunny side up lol. Yet the medical community will chalk anything up to anxiety or craziness if you dare to question the safety of it if not every person complains about it(gaslighting abusive tactic in its finest form). Tons of people are also too dumb to even have much body or conscious awareness, so they make the safety of such machines an easy pass. As for the mri technicians, do you really think they would be teaching them about much negative consequences when these kids are paying to be in the field? no… I wonder how much money is made off of mri’s…The system is a money making f###ery.
I just had an MRI of my cervical spine and I am so upset as I write this. I had the MRI over a week ago and have had a constant headache since then, inability to sleep, and feeling very much not like myself with near panic attacks on a daily basis. Does anyone else feel this way and have these feelings subsided for anyone? I could hear my heart beating while I was in the machine and felt very hot and confused afterwards. Mine was also without contrast. I will never ever do one of these scans again. In fact, I will never step foot in a doctor’s office or hospital ever again. These scans are highly detrimental to your health and wellbeing. My scan was on the Siemens Prism 3T.
I have had the same symptoms since my cervical MRI over a week ago. I still have a headache and an inability to sleep even though I am tired. Did this eventually subside for you, and if so how long did it take to subside? Any answers would be deeply appreciated!