Re: MRI with CSF flow study

August 1, 2007

Yes that is how it is still done.Piece of cake, nothing to it at all.

Christel

Hi & all,

I'm replying to the group for this question in case

someone else has more updated (or more specific)

information than I do on the " open " MRI/CSF flow study

question. I had an MRI with a CSF flow study done

about 6 years ago, but it was NOT in an " open

MRI " ...so if someone else has done it in an open MRI,

maybe they can write to you and tell you what that was

like. But for the basic CSF flow study, it was really

easy. It was just a basic MRI (we didn't even inject

contrast dye, as I recall), with a pulse ox. monitor

clipped on my finger. No pain, no needles, no

stress--it was exactly like a basic MRI.

Hope that helps reassure you.

Ginger

--- wrote:

> Silly question I know but what do they do for this

> test? I have never

> had a CSF flow study and I am wondering what they do

> for this type of

> test. I usually go to the open MRI place so I don't

> know if this can

> be done there or not. I sure hope so. The last

> MRI I had they used

> the contrast they inject and I was so sick. My

> husband came with me

> thank goodness. I was so dizzy I could not stand up.

> He got me home, a

> 40 minute drive and I laid down. For the next week I

> could not stand

> without falling to the right and I was dizzy like I

> had been spinning

> around in circles.

>

> Thanks for any information you can give me.

>

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