My MRI center will let me bring my own music CD to listen to while "shooting the tube". Helps to have music I know rather than a radio station.

I request a cloth to cover my eyes. As long as they are closed, I don't freak as much. The times that they've had to stop the scans because of panic was the times my eyes accidentally opened while I was in there.

I breathe deep and pray. I know that everything's going to be ok from the number of times I've been in there. Still, an irrational fear is just that - Irrational. I just do what I can.

I cannot stand the thought of having a cloth over my eyes. I think it would make me more claustrophobic. I close and open my eyes and never have had a problem. During my last MRI they had a mirror positioned so I could see them in the control booth and that helped me. They do not provide music as an option

After my first one, I have taken a low dose of clonozepam and have been okay. I actually go through a standard lecture that I give in my American Government classes, "How a Biil Becomes a Law?" I know that takes about 40 minutes without questions and I have given it so many times that I have it memorized. I am such a geek!!! Then if I need to do so, I start saying the rosary in my head.