Wanted: MRI scan

aye, I know it's a bit of a long shot but I need an MRI scan on the lower back, the GP is telling me about 18 weeks waiting so I thought I'd ask here just in case someone has access to facilities for research etc…

I used Vista Diagnostics at Waterloo. (http://www.vistadiagnostics.co.uk/)
You need to be referred by your Physio/Osteo/Doctor/etc.
You won't find a cheaper commercial service in London according to my referrer!

good luck!

you need to get a doctor for a friend. everything is faster. i don't know if this is classified info. my dad is a doctor and always get it faster. seems fucked up. ah wheel.

Its circ £800 from bupa.

you need to get a doctor for a friend. everything is faster. i don't know if this is classified info. my dad is a doctor and always get it faster. seems fucked up. ah wheel.

You don't get many perks working in the NHS. I wish I could just turn up for work and get a bonus.... Though a thank you goes along way.

I managed to get one in less than two week's. But 22 years in the Health Service has to count for something.

NHS now operates "choose & book" in most areas, where the patient can choose from a number of hospitals and book it yourself via phone/internet.

Ask for the hospital details yourself, call them all up regularly and ask for cancellations or if there are any earlier times you can be squeezed in.

To add to this the NHS has over the past few years been making a lot of smaller clinics for basic orthopedic's, MRI scans, physiotherapy and things like that to ease the waiting ques at larger hospitals.

Ive been referred for lots of things this year, and everything was quick and both my MRI scan & physio were at little clinics which have sprung up only a mile or so away in different directions to where I live.

aye, I know it's a bit of a long shot but I need an MRI scan on the lower back, the GP is telling me about 18 weeks waiting so I thought I'd ask here just in case someone has access to facilities for research etc…

Wayne, I'll do you for £40, I can rig something up in the kitchen.

lol @ tynan - very good :)

Wayne, I'll do you for £40, I can rig something up in the kitchen.

It took 3 brilliant scientists, one of them being a Nobel prizewinner. Seven years of work to get one image. With an old horse shoe magnet and the power of the forum we should be able to manage something in less time than that...

Ask for the hospital details yourself, call them all up regularly and ask for cancellations or if there are any earlier times you can be squeezed in.

+1, this works. Be persistent and you'll get cancellation places.

I'm back at work on Monday and will ask in MRI. See what they say.

Only trouble is, how big are you Wayne as the scanner is a tight fit....

Only trouble is, how big are you Wayne as the scanner is a tight fit....

haha! not to mention really boring.

really 18 weeks??? jeez i had my ultrasound and mri within a month!! must be because i live in chelsea haha

It depends on the nature of the injury.. I had an brain MRI in less than 24 hours.. but I guess the impending death thing kinda warranted it.

Same day for £200-400:
http://www.vistadiagnostics.co.uk/mri_booking.htm

http://www.pponline.co.uk/forum/talk-injury/cheap-mri-scan

Did they find anything?

You've seen the animated gif..

It depends on the nature of the injury.. I had an brain MRI in less than 24 hours.

It's faster if you are hollow.

You've seen the animated gif..

A brilliant piece of lateral thinking to produce a pseudo-dimensional image from discrete planar images. Only a genius could do such a thing.

Did they find anything?

His post count was badly swollen.

It's faster if you are hollow.

It's actually faster if you are solid. Since I'm a chunky fucking genius, it was well fast innit.

A brilliant piece of lateral thinking to produce a pseudo-dimensional image from discrete planar images. Only a genius could do such a thing.

I know. I made the GIF.
You had a go at some satanic 3D devil work..

Pah, Nobel snowbell.[/xmas]

i waited 6 weeks for an mri on my knee at lewisham...go private i never recieved a conformation letter and missed my appointment when i rang up and complained they had a go at me as if its my fault the letter never turned up.....had my mri and i got two wait another 2 weeks for my resluts

Wayne

Not sure if this helps but for a really quick and cheap result, maybe photshop something into this image: