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MRI are generaly considered safe but my personnal experience contradict this. I passed a 3T brain MRI (with gadolinium injection for angiography) ~80 days ago a
by jlpom 7y ago
MRI are generaly considered safe but my personnal experience contradict this. I passed a 3T brain MRI (with gadolinium injection for angiography) ~80 days ago and my life has been seriously painful since then. I have experienced hypertension (often >170 of systole, seem unrelated but never had high tension of my life and like the rest of theses issues it appeared exactly after the MRI), sleep issues, head difficulties to think and head "rigidity", sexual/erectile disfunction (other side-effets started to dim a bit since then, but not this one), continuous heat on of my face up to 3 weeks after the exam. I am not trying to spread FUD but this has unfortunately been my experience. I'm a fragile kind of person, though I didn't expected it would be (so) unsettling. YMMV but you may reconsider passing one if you don't have confidence it would help you diagnosis or find issues (stenosis, neoplasm...).
- refurb 7y agoReaction to the contrast agent?
- jlpom 7y agoA general practitioner redirected me to a neurologist, hopefully he will find out.
- ohithereyou 7y agoMake sure you report this to both your GP and to the company that makes the machine. All major MRI machine makers watch for adverse reactions like hawks, and if there's any way that your experience is an adverse reaction to either the contrast or the scan they are going to want the details to prevent it from happening to somebody else.
- jlpom 7y agoThanks for the advice, I will send an email to GE.
- ohithereyou 7y agoGE's hotline for suspected adverse reactions is 1-800-654-0118 You can also report to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 (Both of these were the third hit searching for 'report ge mri adverse reactions' on Google.)