Hi unluckywelder

Hey, as if getting bits of hot metal all over yourself wasn't enough worries--jeez. An MRI wouldn't hurt, but don't be surprised if they "don't find anything." Studying the brain by CT or MRI is like trying to understand China from satellite photos. They can tell if you've got bits of metal in there, or walked into a nail gun, or if something else is there that shouldn't be, or if something is missing, which your wife would have told you about by now anyway :-). It's going to depend on what kind of medical situation you're in. If you're in America, there's a tendency to do MRI's and if they can't see anything you're "fine." That's because the real test that shows what is happening in the brain is a thorough neuropsychological evaluation, and those cost several grand. Insurers would rather protect their profits by declaring you "just fine" and sending you back out on the job, hoping you fall off some staging somewhere. I know this sounds cynical, but I've worked in health care for some time, and insurers use reasoning processes from some other planet. The big thing is to find a physician who is still curious, and not so exhausted from coping with all the insurance yaya that he just walks through the day like a zombie.

good luck. BTW what you have sounds like classic TBI

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