I'm not sure whether to attribute this to having many MRI scans or not, but the issue didn't start until after I started getting MRIs.

I am a killer of batteries. I can no longer wear a watch. I kill the battery in no time at all. I had worn the same watch for years and never had a problem. This was a pretty expensive watch with a Swiss movement, so it wasn't poorly made.

Suddenly after all of my problems started and I started having MRIs, the watch battery died. I replaced it and it promptly died again. I sent the watch out for service and there was nothing wrong with it but, I could never keep a battery in that watch for more than a month or so after this started.

So, I got a new watch which was not an expensive one. The battery thing started all over again. I got a third watch with the same results. I gave up on watches several years ago.

The new issue is that I am killing batteries in electric toothbrushes now. My husband and I have used the Oral B Pulsar toothbrushes for years. They tend to last around 4 months before the battery wears out.

I had a new MRI in November. My toothbrush died within weeks. I didn't think anything of it at the time. I wasn't even actually sure how long I had it. I got a new one out and it didn't even last a month. At that point, I was ticked off at the company because I figured it was a defective package (it was a two pack).

I bought a new toothbrush - same brand and type. It also died within a few weeks. All this time, my husband is still using his same toothbrush with no problem.

So, last month, I bought a new brand. They started off fine, but each toothbrush from that brand started slowing down within a week, stopping completely about two weeks later. I know you are supposed to change your toothbrush frequently (i.e. every few months), but this every few weeks thing is getting old.

It hit me this morning that maybe it is just me and is something like the watch battery issue. The reason I am thinking it has to do with MRI is because I wasn't killing toothbrushes since this recent MRI. I hadn't had an MRI for about 2 years before that one.

Any ideas? Does this happen to anyone else?

my mother is a watch/battery killer, but she had alot of shock treatments as a kid for Polio. How shock treatments make polio better is beyond me, but she survived it. She has a watch she wears around her neck. If she straps it on her wrist it runs backwards or dies. Never tested tooth brushes on her, she uses a manual one.

Maybe you can save money by getting a rechargeable one. I have a sonic care and love it. I plop it on the charger stand after brushing my teeth in the AM/PM and it holds a charge a long time. Mine also has a fancy box on it that you snap off the head and soak it in UV light to disinfect it. Tons of great choices for rechargeable ones.

Hmmm...I wonder if that is why the battery operated mouse dies constantly on my computer. those things last a year or so, but lately I cant keep batteries in it. makes ya wonder.

I got rid of my battery operated mouse because it died constantly, too!

I don't know about MRI's but batteries don't last for me either. I always blamed the mfr.

A rechargable is a good idea, my new push button rechargable E-CIG batteries last much longer.

I never have MRIs (I'm PPMS) any more and I love my battery mouse and it really doesn't die untimely. HHMMM.

K, my Mom has been dealing with this her whole adult life. But had only had MRI's within the last few years. She found that the ONLY watch she can wear without instantly killing it (or within a week at most) is a Timex. They tend to last around two years for her. She is also allergic to metal though and has to paint the whole back of it with nail polish. She even has to tuck in her shirts so that the metal in the waistline of her jeans doesn't give her sores.

I'm not sure I've noticed batteries dieing for me. I am allergic to metal too, just not as severe as my Mom. But anything electronic tends to not want to work around me. I don't know exactly when it started but I'm pretty sure it was before I ever had an MRI. No one can find me in there systems for the first couple minutes of looking several different ways. Any electronic equipment used for testing on me always acts up in some way. I go through cell phones like crazy, oh the cell phone thing is a battery issue. I cannot use touch screens, 90% of the time they don't register that I touched them. Ha, come to think of it, my Neuro was having issues with her computer while I was there today

I'm sure there's more, just too tired to think of it. Now I want to know just exactly how many people who get regular MRI's or have had one have this issue.

Hope you quit killing batteries.

The cheaper watch that I was talking about that I killed was a Timex. I can't even wear those. This is definitely a weird thing!

Holly, it could just be, a bad luck run of batteries..

Whoa, I have noted in the past few years that I have to replace my watch battery every 6 months or so. I just wrote it off to bad quality batteries in my Timex, but I never had a problem with them before...I gave up replacing them and got out my old windup Snoopy watch, but I keep forgetting to wind it!

I was thinking the same thing about the wind up watch. My grandma left me her vintage Rolex that is a wind up, but it needs repairs, it is stuck in the safe we can't open, and I'm afraid I would keep forgetting to wind it!