WATCH this BEFORE You Get a Whole-Body MRI!
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2023
- Dr. Christy explains her position on Whole-Body Screening MRI's and gives the data behind her decision.
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Just curious what percentage of people would have to die from something that could be prevented by early detection, before screening is considered worth it.
I wish my daughter would have done something like this. She died of cancer last year at the age of 36.
Sorry for your loss.
Rich people get this done yearly and they usually end up living into their 90s.
I had cancer, and it was observed after surgery. I had alternating CTs and x-rays every six weeks. After a year, it was suspected that a lymph node was malignant. I was scheduled for a biopsy. This was 2001, and I had read about PET. I brought it up to my doctor, and they checked with my insurance. The just happened to have a PET in a trailer parked outside the hospital. PET was quite new at the rime. I got the PET, and it showed the lymph node. I then had large doses of therapeutic radiation. Not a sign of it for 22 years now. It was a great relief to know that there weren't other malignant locations..
I bet you would think it was a good idea and worth the $ if you found cancer early and it saved your life. 😊2500.00 is a small price to pay for living.
Well done and well SAID Dr.!! I appreciated this recap and though I've never seen the other one, I concur with you on this!! Just live your life!!
Thank you for watching!
Very helpful information. Thank you.
I saw those comments. I knew that some people were not hearing what you were actually saying. Thanks for this clarification and your thoughtful videos. They are appreciated. ❤
Thanks for your kind comments!
Thanks for another great video!
Thank you for watching! I appreciate it.
Doctors should NOT be basing their opinions on costs to patients. Everything in this video makes reference to cost. It is a fact that MRI full body screenings, without symptoms being present, save lives. When doctors say it is not worth it because the patient will have to spend money on potential further scans, the doctor is presuming that the patient has some sort of care about money. The entire argument becomes flawed, because it is a FACT that screening saves lives. Money is not in the equation. If you take the mention of cost out of this video, you are left with this...1 out of 100 or so scans have FOUND CANCER in people that had no symptoms. Who cares about the percentage or the cost to the patient. If the doctor's personal "opinion" is that he or she would not "personally" spend $2500 on a scan, so be it. Just don't press your financial beliefs on to a patient. The fact is preventative scans save lives. Whether it is 1 out of 10, or 1 out of 1000, it does not matter. Let the patient make the choice.
My mother had a baseline scan of her torso due to stenosis. She had a follow-up about five years later and they saw a "little thing" on her lung. Fast forward and it was malignant. It was about 1cm, and they got it out. Docs said that by the time it would have become symptomatic she'd have been stage 3/4, and at her age that would have been lights out in a year. The fact the docs could say definitively (at least as close as you can get with these things) that the mass was not there previously, meant they were comfortable being aggressive in getting it out. They said it might have saved a lot of stress, and perhaps improved her outcome if the mass had time to spread.
I'm no hypochondriac, am in good health, but started blood and general health checkups at about 47 - right after my mother found out. Found some areas that could use a tune-up (hormones) - and adjustments made a radical difference over the next few years. I'm getting a full-body MRI not to find anything today (I hope), but as a baseline to determine if that "little thing" they find in a few years was always there. If so, they can then nuke it from orbit with confidence.
It's spendy, but I am fortunate enough to be able to afford it.
What is your opinion on MRI to screen visceral fats?
What is the average for the initial scan?
I had Thyroid cancer, and have to do ultrasound every year, doas it mean i sm predisposed to cancer?
So you are saying that typically the whole body MRI scan (when no current symptoms or history exist) is an out of pocket payment and then if something is found (which it commonly does whether significant or not) you then need follow-up testing a good number of times and therefore need a health insurance plan that allows and pays the bulk of that cost without depleting your other coverage levels when at the end clinical findings requiring actual treatment are infrequent or rare. Is that the summary?
I think there is pros/cons is getting a full body at once-just do it a bit at a time maybe every 6 months or a year!
Also in UK as you know we have the NHS so wouldn't come out of your pocket-unless your rich or really rich and just went priv!
Have you ever been to the UK, and if so whereabouts?
If all 160,000 of your subscribers took an MRI, those studies are saying that 3,200 would have something found? That seems worth it!
You initially would think so, but the ongoing testing is so burdensome and MOST of what they find is not anything at all - it just causes a lot of stress and ongoing testing. BUT, this is such a personal decision! It is really based on your own ability to tolerate risk. I just want people to know what they are going into before they get it so they can go in informed. Thanks for watching!
Noting that: Of those subscribers (who at the start had no symptoms or history of detectable illness but were willing to undergo the complete MRI) some 50,000 (30%) would be subject to the cost and trouble of up to 4 to 6 subsequent visits for tests over the following year to arrive at those 3,200 significant/worthwhile detections. Also consider most of those hospital visits would involve the logistical time and expense of other family members accompanying the patient. For some it might be worth it.
whats the best way to see brain trouble or neck problems
The same applies to that coveted yearly physical that has become a sacrosanct ritual. Getting a yearly physical does not reduce mortality at all but it's a solid revenue generating source for the medical industry. Think of all the false positives and fishing expeditions generated by yearly physicals that turn out to be false positives. People in Western Europe don't do anywhere near the amount of screenings that Americans get and yet their life expectancy is higher than that of Americans.
My Mother went through hell back and forth . 2007
I think there is someone probably close to me in the family that’s sick and hasn’t said anything . It’s the total silence I don’t like . Then a phone call .
I am just happy to get a mri for a particular area, stenosis. Great information, as usual. Thank you, Dr. 🦅
MRIs are an incredible resource when they are used for a particular problem for a particular part of the body. Thanks for watching!
I'd rather be on the cautious side.
I bet she supports mammograms though.....a MRI type imaging scan for preventatives measures
Very well done Christy. Reviewing the evidence and then putting it into terms of what it means is very helpful and useful for anyone considering a whole-body MRI. I was interested in doing it, but after watching your and other's videos, I don't think I will move ahead.
I know something is going on inside my body there is no doubt .
I just don’t understand .
does MRI hurt your balls
It should not, unless there is metal inside them. There is no radiation with MRI which is why its such an incredible tool.
@@ChristyRisingerMD do you have to drink or be injected with dye for MRI
@@spacecatboy2962 Drink with dye, you being serious??
@@mikekaraoke yeah
Make a video against mammograms then so you're consistent
Breast cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer fall in the top five causes of deaths from cancer so it warrants screening. We have hard data which indicates the onset of these cancers by age in addition to other risk factors. Full body MRI's on the hand belong to the "throwing spitballs against a wall and hoping something will stick" approach. The same thing applies to your car. If I plug in a diagnostic code reading scanner to a perfectly functioning care there's a good chance that a bunch of error messages will pop up on the reader that actually don't mean $hit. Talk to any mechanic.
Weak brain leads to a weak body.
What is your opinion on MRI to screen visceral fats?