Just an FYI:
The MRI was being used in the early 80's and they were not considered experimental. My MRI was done in 1985 and was paid for by my Health Insurance.
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why did they do a lumbar puncture when I was six? no they didn't see the need to put me through all that. The needles were larger then, the risks were greater and they weren't being done on tilt tables or under an active X-ray.
A bit traumatic and high risk procedure "then".
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Lumbar Punctures, referred to as spinal taps years ago, were not "high risk procedures" to the best of my knowledge. My husband had one many years ago when he was a kid for spinal meningitis, which he was diagnosed with. I had one done in 1985.