GLUB
2005-04-03 23:24:40 UTC
I wrote this to one of the responders for the topic "clips" but it if
anyone in the wider vasectomy group can help I and my brain and my
scrotum would be grateful.
Hi David,
I need info about clips. I am looking for info about my old vasectomy
and this topic seems appropriate since I need info about metal clips.
I had a vasectomy before 1981 and after 1974. I can't remember the
year. I think I had a metal clip but I'm not sure. I don't have
access to my old medical record yet. Now I need to have an MRI for a
brain problem. The MRI was scheduled and I arrived at the lab and
mentioned my vasectomy with a possible metal clip. It hit the fan then
-- was it an MRI compatible clip, they asked. They knew that titanium
was used for most clips in the past ten or twenty years but they didn't
know what was used in the seventies. They checked with a neurologist
and a urologist and no one knew.
They described to me what would happen to the clips if they were iron
based. They would either reach a burning temp when the magnets were
turned on or else the clips would be pulled out and up to the ceiling.
They invited me to cancel the procedure until I could be sure there was
no clip or it was the right kind (titanium, gold, copper, aluminum -- I
vote for aluminum if it isn't being resorbed and causing Alzheimers).
I decided to postpone the MRI. I think I feel clips in the scrotum
that do feel like metal. Now, this is why I am asking you: you suggest
that the airport metal detectors might detect metals other than
titanium. Do you know this for sure or are just joking or surmizing?
Have I passed the test if I wasn't frisked any of the many times I
flew?
If you do not know, please suggest a solution short of having my whole
scrotal contents removed.
Or anyone else in this group, do you know?
Thanks, GLUB
anyone in the wider vasectomy group can help I and my brain and my
scrotum would be grateful.
Hi David,
I need info about clips. I am looking for info about my old vasectomy
and this topic seems appropriate since I need info about metal clips.
I had a vasectomy before 1981 and after 1974. I can't remember the
year. I think I had a metal clip but I'm not sure. I don't have
access to my old medical record yet. Now I need to have an MRI for a
brain problem. The MRI was scheduled and I arrived at the lab and
mentioned my vasectomy with a possible metal clip. It hit the fan then
-- was it an MRI compatible clip, they asked. They knew that titanium
was used for most clips in the past ten or twenty years but they didn't
know what was used in the seventies. They checked with a neurologist
and a urologist and no one knew.
They described to me what would happen to the clips if they were iron
based. They would either reach a burning temp when the magnets were
turned on or else the clips would be pulled out and up to the ceiling.
They invited me to cancel the procedure until I could be sure there was
no clip or it was the right kind (titanium, gold, copper, aluminum -- I
vote for aluminum if it isn't being resorbed and causing Alzheimers).
I decided to postpone the MRI. I think I feel clips in the scrotum
that do feel like metal. Now, this is why I am asking you: you suggest
that the airport metal detectors might detect metals other than
titanium. Do you know this for sure or are just joking or surmizing?
Have I passed the test if I wasn't frisked any of the many times I
flew?
If you do not know, please suggest a solution short of having my whole
scrotal contents removed.
Or anyone else in this group, do you know?
Thanks, GLUB