I am so embarrassed to share with people in my face-to-face life. I figured I was safe to share here.

I have had sudden onset of potentially seizures (other symptoms as well) and I saw a neurologist. The doctor ordered an EEG and an MRI. I have completed the EEG and I went to my early morning MRI. I can not have the MRI because I DO NOT fit into the machine!!! Talk about EMBARRASSING! I

I am so embarrassed and ashamed. Not to mention SCARED out of my mind about what potential results could be. I was trying to not worry, until I had a reason. Then I was told they are using contrast to identify tumors or lesions on my brain!

Despite this embarrassment I found an imaging location that has an oval MRI machine rather than a circle.

I hope to have pleasant results and get on with my life and weight loss surgery!!! At the moment I feel like I could (and probably should) break down in tears (maybe I would feel better).

Thank you for listening. Am I alone in this NOT fitting into an MRI machine? I am 5'5" 302lbs.

Best,

Sannah

oh i didn't get an MRI.. they couldn't do it.. cause i was too fat.. but the guy that was trying to squish me into the machine was jerking my arms around and kept sighing like "UGH!!!!" and kept acting like he was just very annoyed that i was even in his presence.. and he was fat himself. lol

what happened in regards to my leg is that.. the last day i was in the hospital, i was about to do my physical therapy & i got a new physical therapist & she had me do a couple exercises & said "you have a pulled hamstring"... so i almost died over a pulled hamstring that gave me a 3 1/2 hour long charlie horse.. how dumb is that?.. and it's even more stupid that the doctors didn't have any idea what was causing my leg pain at all.. they did several ultrasounds & hooked me up to every machine they could find, but couldn't figure it out.. but a physical therapist, on my last day there, took about 45 seconds to diagnose my problem without any machinery at all. What the F?.. lol $40,000, 2 emergency room trips to 2 different hospitals, 1 week in the ICU & a near death experience later... they find out it was a pulled hamstring. really made me lose faith in medicine... and to answer your question, i don't have any permanent damage, but i'm very lucky.. and i am forbidden from ever taking anything with tylenol in it again for the rest of my life.

in regards to your MRI.. i hope everything will go well & i'm happy you got an open one scheduled.