MRI and Naval Belly Button Piercing?

I just found out that i need an MRI done in two weeks. I got my Naval pierced yesterday. What should i do? I%26#039;m so confused. Ive done research on it and aparently its not the magnets you have to worry about, it%26#039;s the heat generated and the metal picks it up and burns and stuff, but then i also read somewhere that as long as it%26#039;s not an MRI for the area (it%26#039;s on my knee) than it%26#039;s fine.





What should i do? I went back to the piercer today after i found out and they werent that helpful. They basically told me i had to leave it in and that was it.
MRI and Naval Belly Button Piercing?
YOU HAVE TO TAKE IT OUT!!!!!!! Forget the piercer you need to tell the doctor.
MRI and Naval Belly Button Piercing?
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Reply:i%26#039;m not sure about %26quot;as long as it%26#039;s not an MRI for the area, it%26#039;s fine.%26quot;





however, if the jewelry is of suitable material (implant grade titanium/stainless steel), it should be ok. the question is: will your doctor feel safe enough to let you get on with the procedure without taking the metal out...





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if you go to bodyartforms.com, you can order some ptfe jewelry. it%26#039;s plastic (teflon, strictly speaking), so it won%26#039;t react to the MRI%26#039;s magnets. ask your piercer on his/her opinion on what you should do. You should just put a plastic retainer in, and it should be fine. You should ask your piercer to help you switch the jewelry though.





there.


hope it helped.
Reply:if the mri doesnt pass over your belly button im sure its fine, if its just your knee. really just ask youre doctor cause he%26#039;ll know for definite:)
Reply:Call the facility where you will have the MRI and ask them if you need to take it out, before you worry any more about this. In the mean time, if I am doing a knee MRI, as long as there is no metal in the immediate area of the knee, I allow the patient to leave it in. For example, with a brain MRI, all jewelry neck above should be removed (facial piercings, tongue, ear etc). The metal in the area of interest can cause an artifact and distort your images. But, you need a knee MRI and you have a naval ring. I would not ask you to remove this piercing for this exam. A watch is removed for any MRI scan, since the magnet can break the moving parts of the watch.





Body jewelry is not effected by a magnet. You can hold a refridgerator magnet to your jewelry and see this yourself. On a daily basis, I am in direct proximity to a MRI scanner, and none of my piercings have ever been pulled and none of my body jewelry has heated up.





%26quot;Appropriate body jewelry is non-magnetic, and as such does not need to be removed for MRI procedures* unless it is located in the region being examined.%26quot;





http://www.safepiercing.org/troubleshoot...
Reply:Tell your doctor and see what they can do about it... maybe you can wait with the MRI?