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I had an MRI with contrast once. I remember the gadolinium injection made me extremely nauseous for a few minutes, but otherwise it has had zero effect on me personally.

Some sad advice: don't ask doctors about this, my experience is that it will cause them to write you off as a crazy person no matter how you bring it up. Many of them lump this in with what they see as "influencer illnesses", whether fairly or not.

And maybe more practically, if you really need an MRI, whatever you might have is much more likely to hurt you.





Yeah, happened to me too. Brief but intense. Strangely, only the first time.

When I got out I told the technician (I though I had a panic attack, and was puzzled that it happened at the end of the session), and she said "oh, it was probably the contrast, happens rarely". Apparently rarely enough that they don't warn the patients. To be fair it was harmless, and they'd have many more cases of nocebo nausea than actual nausea.




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