I understand that Dexcom officially states that you must remove the sensor before an MRI, but..

[Guest]

.. has anyone actually tried it to see if it really does mess it up?

I am due to have an MRI on Tuesday of my cervical spine and have my G6 on my thigh. Perhaps my leg won't even be in the machine... Just wondering if its worth trying it to see what happens.

[Jake]

Consider the motherboard components are metal and the magnet in MRI will rip that sensor off at Abt a few hundred mph. I once saw a video of a guy who had metal screws in after a surgery.

Didn't tell hospital yrs down the road and they got ripped thru his body from MRI. Scary stuff.

[Elizabeth]

They will scan you for metal before you even walk in the room. It can injure both you and a multi-million dollar machine very badly.

I always try to schedule my MRI’s on days I have to change my Dexcom.

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[Kathryn]

They're making me take my insulin infusion set out in addition to my sensor and I am annoyed. It's gonna be a rough diabetes day.

[Bonnie]

It’s the fact that you can’t have any metal on you during an MRI and the sensor has metal. It must be off during an MRI.

[Rebecca]

MRIs are incredibly strong magnets. Wearing any metal into them will likely result in the metal ripping out of your body at high velocity (and likely not in the direction you'd rip it off) as well as damaging the machine which is more expensive than any of your diabetes equipment.

The hospital won't let you do it.

It's pretty much the only procedure that always requires removal of the device.

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[Lucy]

They let me keep mine on because i was only having my head scanned, it was fine x

[Kelly]

Had MRI C-spine last Friday. CGM had to be taken out. It can damage machine or in event it did stay in it can heat up and cause severe burn - not safe! I left infusion port in (mine is all plastic/tandem) but removed pump.

Blood sugars were high for awhile but all ok later on. Dexcom replaced sensor and I was on day 9.

[S Andrea DS]

It's highly not recommended to wear any diabetes devices or anything metal during MRIs.

Due to the magnetic field. I recently had one and made sure I removed my devices before the procedure.

FYI one of the medical nurses at my doctor had an MRI done and forgot to remove a bobby pin from her hair. She said that it snatched the pin from her hair destroying it, that's how strong the magnetic field is.

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[Dena]

When I had to have an MRI they wouldn’t even let me in the door. They saw it and turned me away.

I had to come back on a change day so I could remove it prior to having the MRI done.

[Ana]

My friend just wore one recently because techs told her it's okay. Caused no issues to either her or sensor or machine. I was surprised because as far as I knew, magnets means anything with metal off. But seems that metals used in dex are not magnet-impacted