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[–] 5 points 8 months ago (7 children)

I soon expect to have screws implanted in my spine. I also have other infirmities. I hope like hell to never have screws ripped through my vertebrae by an MRI.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    Implants are non-magnetic. Wrecks the image, though.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Hopefully they don't need to do an MRI of my spine after they operate on it - apparently for their sake, not mine.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Ugh, yeah, how do they even do MRIs for people with metal parts?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    I think, as someone else said, things installed into the body are usually titanium and thus non ferrous. Fortunately they don't generally cause issues with MRIs as a result.

    (I only know this because when I broke my ankle, during the pre-surgery interview, I asked the surgeon about going through metal scanners at an airport.)

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