I can get an MRI in a few hours for a couple hundred bucks out of pocket. I can go get blood drawn in a half hour and lab results tomorrow morning. Tons of private labs and imaging centers are looking for anyone to fill the machine or get stuck. That's not the problem. The problem is getting an M.D. to read the results and actually tell me what's wrong and a good course of action.
In both examples, just getting an MRI would have told me practically nothing. Maybe for the nystagmus, it would have told me if there was significant brain cancer. Maybe a blood test would have told me something about cancer, but there's a good chance it would have been inconclusive, I needed a biopsy (or, in hindsight, a bit of rubbing alcohol).
In both examples, just getting an MRI would have told me practically nothing. Maybe for the nystagmus, it would have told me if there was significant brain cancer. Maybe a blood test would have told me something about cancer, but there's a good chance it would have been inconclusive, I needed a biopsy (or, in hindsight, a bit of rubbing alcohol).