I have to get a ct scan in an hour. every time i get a ct scan, i feel my body twitching and jolting...

I have to get a ct scan in an hour. every time i get a ct scan, i feel my body twitching and jolting. is this just my nerves and stress? or does the machine fuck with your body that much, while shooting you with radiation? im not so worried about the cancer risk. i am weirded out about how fucking scary the ct scan itself always is. Does it interfere with your body functions while its on? or am i just tweaking our during it? i have honestly wondered if it sends false signals throughout your body which manifests as the twitching and spasms i have during it.

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Maybe you have high iron levels in your blood so it might be that reacting to the high power magnets in it

Had a CT a few times in the past week (brain tumour). It's been completely fine for me each time, you might just be psyching yourself out.

CT is an X-ray machine you mong, no magnets.
Unless OP can't tell the diference and is getting an MRI scan instead, which does involve the strongest magnet you'll ever get to see...

op here, ct scan, not an mri. i think my thinking eas that since our muscles are all controlled by electrical signals, maybe they misfire during the interferrence a cr scan could theoretically produce. it can be totally imagined. but when i try to lay still, i do tend to twitch a lot involuntarilly.

Maybe you suffer from electromagnetic hypersensitivity? Don’t do the ct scan or else you may die

Its you, not the machine. Psychological effects may enhance the perception and association with the machine, but it wouldn't do anything to you, by design.

99% chance it's the dye they inject you with. Some dyes have enough effect on the nervous system that they can make you feel like you are pissing yourself (and good technicians will warn you of this).

X-rays shouldn't cause muscle contractions, so I'm guessing it's psychosomatic

op. what you are experiencing is a combination of anxiety and a panic attack, just breath and it will all be over soon.

nah it's because iodine is a vasodilator - you feel it more in your loins because they're highly vascularized, so dilation results in the rapid filtration of warm blood into those tissues

op here i appreciate the replies because i really do hate ct scans, over my life ive had 6 or so. I have never done a contrast CT scan so i know that isnt a variable. but i still appreciate the replies regardinn
contrast scans anyway in case i get what in the future.

im currently looking up breathing rates to slow my heart beat, because i think i need to just concentrate on that to get through it. The CT scan is only 15 minutes long but every minute feels like an eternity.

that's a hell of a lot of CT scans - are you a cancer survivor?

No..around 18 i developed some health problems..had to get a ct scan. over the years with sports injuries in my early 20s i had to get a few more. i also was a victim of a random assault as well, so had to get two for that. Life is simply, unfair for many people. I have jumped out of a plane and i genuinely felt less fear than being in that machine.

Then again, this machine involves a rotating ring with all kinds of cool shit, weighing close to a ton. If that ever decides to fuck off while rotating, the janitor is going to have a bad day.

Oh you user.

i lold at least. doing a 4 in hold 4 exhale 4 second pattern to try and get through this.

I also had this happen. I later found out I was infested with tapeworms. Could be that OP, those things cause spasms as they burrow

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the amount of radiation emitted from a ct scan is like 3,000 x rays equivalent. perhaps that is why

CT (Computed Tomography) scans expose you to many times more gamma particles than a normal x-ray which allows for a very clear and defined image. A normal chest x-ray is equivalent to 10 days worth of normal environmental radiation which is very low. One CT head scan is equivalent to 3 years of normal environmental radiation.