Derek Cole travels to Duke for MRIs to stay coordinated with his Duke-based doctor and often review results the same day. Heat in MRI rooms worsens his symptoms, causing slurring, so he needs careful temperature control during his 45-minute brain and spinal cord scans to check for lesion progression.
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About 45 minutes.
About 13 years ago.
The in-person appointment was cancelled and rescheduled as a virtual appointment in a few days.
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Why would I go all the way to Duke for my mri? Two reasons. Usually, how we set this up is my doctor is at Duke, so I go towards, you know, morning, midday to get the mri, and then when the results come in, meet with that doctor a few hours later. So killing two birds with one stone. One. Get it done. The doctor had to cancel my appointment later today, so we're gonna do a virtual appointment in a few days, but still going to Duke for my mri. So there's quite a few Duke affiliates around me. I went to one before or used to go to one quite a few times, especially during COVID because everything was virtual. And, you know, I wasn't. I wasn't going to see the doctor, so might as well do it more local. But the last time I did it there, a few years ago, they kind of keep that room warm, right? So if you have Ms. Like me, you don't.
When.
When you heat up, you hear my slurring here, but when you heat up, you. It kind of, you know, makes the symptoms worse than if you were cool. So that was one reason they keep it kind of warm in there. Plus, I'm in there for about 45 minutes because they do a brain and a spinal cord MRI against my baseline.
To see if there's been any progression or if I need to react in any kind of way. Now, there hasn't been new lesions in.
Since I first had the MRI, like, you know, 13 years ago.
