I too got a shock during an MRI. Really was kind of painful. My hands were crossed but I am so big it is hard to fit into the tube without crossing something. It hurt and I was wondering if it is dangerous. Plus, it was such a tight fit that I found it hard to breath.
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I had an MRI yesterday, and my fingers were interlaced upon my lap. I got a shock in my fingers. The techs said this had never happened to anyone else before.
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Hello. Just returned from an MRI of the brain. I've had multiple MRIs in the past, and never had any sensation whatsoever. This time, I did have my fingers interlaced over my abdomen (as in others who posted the same sensation), and during the set up for the first scan, received a large "shock" that began in my head and swept through my body ending in my torso. I told the tech and he was not surprised, but told me to unclasp my hands. I did, and we proceeded with the remaining 45 minutes of scans with no more shocks, but I did feel sensations to my head for the rest of the session. Afterward, the tech told me that he had any patients with this same experience, but said he was not surprised because this was the largest machine, a "Tesla 3."
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Thank you very much for this response. I had an MRI done today and have had a few in the past. This time I experienced the tingling weird somewhat painful feeling/sensation in my hands. I did have them crossed over my stomache. It was strange I did not feel it in the beginning of the MRI, but only during the last 5 minutes of it and it happened 3 times during that time, lasted maybe 10 seconds in that 10 seconds the pain/sensation slowly decreased in the intensity it rose to about a 2 on the pain chart. It just really scared me. The tech said she never heard of that. The MRI was a 1.5 T if that matters.
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I'm amazed by all this!! I've had too many mris to count and never experienced anything like a shock...until today. Had a brain MRS and crossed my arms, mainly to try to calm myself, I'm more than a bit claustrophobic, and the tingle ran down my left arm into my fingers. I was "shocked," as I never had experienced this before in an mri machine.
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I experienced electric shock while in a MRI for a head injury. I had my hands layin on my abdomen and the shock was jumping across my hands and looping (from what I could best describe) from my shoulder to my neck through my sinuses and oun my neck on the other side. End result: permenant loss of smell and taste as it severed/burned the olfactory nerves through the cribriform plate. Never get an MRI on yout body unless you are heading into surgery and the image is needed for such work. If only there was a lawyer that would take this on as a case!?!
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I had this happen today!!!!! I have had several MRIs never y has this happen before. Told the tech and she said I must have too high of an electromagnetic field! So here I am googling to see if others have had it happen. Glad to know I am NOT crazy! I got a blister on my cheek bone and several weird bumps on my arms!
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I had a cardiac MRI today 3/20/2015. Laying straight with my arms at my sides and my hands not tucked under my body, knees bent with a pillow under them. I would get a 2-4" vertical shock right above my right eyebrow and a horizontal shock accross my back just above my belt line. These shocks would happen at the same time as each other. The head shock I would get by itself but the back shock always came with the head shock. I have had one MRI two or three years ago. During that MRI only just got the shocks to my forehead. I don't have any metal in me that would cause these shocks.
I do have neuropathy. The die shot made my thighs numb for hours.
I havn't seen any solutions to these shocks besides not crossing your hands or legs.
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If you know to not cross arms or legs for an X-Ray, why in the world would anyone do it during an MRI? Lots of people missing some common sense here.
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I had three MRIs today covering my entire spine. during some of the scans, probably due to specific frequencies, I would experience tingling on the right side of my forehead and scalp. This was accompanied by a pulling sensation in the same area. It was nerve wracking because I have 22 aneurysm coils behind my right eye... I was glad when The MRIs were done. I think we all react differently to radio waves
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I had an MRI yesterday and they said the same exact thing!!! I had just had a different one in November with no problems!
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Today during my MRI I felt the electric vibrations in my arms and hands. Its been hours and I still am getting the sensations. Is that ok?
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I have just recently had two MRI scans during a stint in hospital, on both occasions where the drip had been (i might admit different arms for both MRI'S) I received really bad pain, the only way I can describe it was like a magnetic electrical shock. On the first occasion the drip was in my right arm, I was given some solution before the scan and was told it would make my vision slightly blurred, this was no problem until they put me in the scanner, three times I got this shock which was very very painful, my arm felt like it had exploded from the inside, I told the techs but they did not seem concerned. Once I was taken back up to my ward and later in the day my arm slowly got more painful and started swelling badly that in the end I called a nurse who applied cream and put it in a bandage. Two days later I was sent for another scan, this time the drip had been moved to my left arm as it had to be replaced, I told the techs about my right arm and what had happened but again they did not seem concerned,again I was given the injection had the scan and again I got the same shock, and yes, my left arm is now swollen and very painful. Should I inform the doctor. WHAT CAUSED THIS AND WHAT EFFECTS CAN IT HAVE. Throughout the whole process I did not once have anything crossed on both occasions. The swelling in my right arm now feels very solid, like i have a lump of concrete in there and my left arm is going the same way now. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks Mikey
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hi ! I got exactly the same, during a brain MRI I felt electric tingling and like cold water running down my scalp and a stronger ones from my neck down my spine which made my body cramp.. But the technicians didn't believe me and said that I couldn't have felt anything because an MRI does not feel like anything if you don't have metal in your body etc. The magnetic field inside an MRI is about 3T which is 60 000 times earths magnetic field so I thought it is bound to have some effect on a human body..
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I had a meniscus tear and while receiving an MRI on my left leg I felt a continual shock sensation in my buttocks. It felt like an electric fence, but was more painful than the one we have on the farm for our horses. I alerted the technicians and they too told me maybe I have too much metal in my blood. They stopped and restarted 3 different times and then told me if I could not withstand the pain that I would just have to forego the procedure. I sucked it up and finished, however the tech's seemed very annoyed at me and voiced unbelief about the shocks. I do not recall whether I had my arms crossed or not.
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