Anybody ever gotten a MRI for a general screening?

[Marc Spector]

Cuz im seriously thinking of getting one.

For about the past year now I've been feeling somethings off. Cant quite put my finger on it. I get brain fog a lot more often it seems. And once every blue moon my leg will jerk uncontrollably.

Mind you this all could be nothing at all. shyt could be just getting older (I'm 30 now). And the good news is nothing is seemingly getting progressively worse.

However i wouldn't mind an MRI just to know for sure. Ive never had one.

Anybody know if insurance normally covers them? do they take awhile? are they nerve wracking?

 

[eastsideTT]

You can't really get a 'general' MRI. They're for specific regions of your body, and a doctor has to order/prescribe one for that specific region. Either you or the facility doing the MRI will call your insurance for pre-authorization. If you have good insurance and the MRI is medically necessary you might just have to pay whatever the "specialist" co-pay is for your insurance out of pocket, that's it. But, medically necessary is key; your doctor has to 'prescribe' the MRI which means you have visited your doctor a couple of times about whatever you're getting the MRI for (back pain, neck pain, etc...) and they weren't able to find out what was causing it through X-Rays, general time passing, or other means...

You might be able to benefit from a CAT scan but I don't see how an MRI on any area of your body... other than maybe the leg that twitches, but even then that's a stretch... would help you figure out what's going on

I know there are walk-in facilities in a lot of cities that do MRIs for cash, "stand-up MRIs", etc... but even then you may need to have a doctor's order, and general brain fog isn't going to be a reason for it unfortunately.

It's good that you're trying to be active in figuring out what's going on, but I don't think an MRI would help you