Billy Crystal got super stoned inside an MRI machine after eating too many weed gummies, then asked

[libertybele]

 Just the headline itself made me chuckle!   

Billy Crystal got super stoned inside an MRI machine after eating too many weed gummies, then asked his doctor for Taco Bell

Billy Crystal said he ate too many weed edibles and asked for fast food 30 minutes into an MRI.

The "Princess Bride" actor recounted his unusual medical experience during an appearance on Wednesday's "The Tonight Show."

Crystal said his doctor recommended he get an MRI after he experienced "strange pain" in his hip, possibly from a workout. During an MRI, people typically lay in or place a body part inside a piece of narrow tube-shaped equipment.

Because he's "very claustrophobic" and was "really nervous" about the procedure, he decided to get some weed gummies to calm himself before it.

"The guy at the cannabis place said - because there's a section for seniors - 'two will make you feel good.' So I said, 'I really want to feel fabulous,'" Crystal told host Jimmy Fallon.

Crystal explained that after he had changed into his hospital gown and the doctors had put color dye in his hip (to help with clearer imaging during the MRI), he ate four of the cannabis edibles, although he didn't specify the dosage of THC or CBD in each of them.

According to Crystal, once he was inside the MRI machine, he was "listening to a little Bill Evans" and had a button he could press to get in touch with the doctor doing the MRI to ask for help.

"About half-hour in, I got really hungry," Crystal recalled. "So I squeezed the thing and he goes, 'Are you okay, Mr. Crystal?' I said, 'Yeah, yeah. Is there a Taco Bell?'"...................

https://www.yahoo.com/news/billy-crystal-got-super-stoned-165855255.html

[sneakypete]

I can identify with that. I have been slighly claustrophic my whole life,and it seems to be getting worse now that I am older and have to do this on a regular basis.

[Cyber Liberty]

A half-hour MRI?

[libertybele]

A half-hour MRI?

I've had an MRI of the head and cervical spine that lasted almost 45 min., it became overwhelming. Obviously the space is very constricted to begin with and I was told not to move. Gummies or something next time!

[Cyber Liberty]

I've had an MRI of the head and cervical spine that lasted almost 45 min., it became overwhelming. Obviously the space is very constricted to begin with and I was told not to move. Gummies or something next time!

Xanax.

[libertybele]

Xanax.

Valium. 

[Right_in_Virginia]

Valium. 

Never enter the tube without it!  (And, close your eyes BEFORE you're rolled into it)

[libertybele]

Never enter the tube without it!  (And, close your eyes BEFORE you're rolled into it)

 
 

[Cyber Liberty]

Never enter the tube without it!  (And, close your eyes BEFORE you're rolled into it)

I used a sleeping mask.  It's better if you can't see the tube inches from your face.  As for me, no more MRIs, since I now have a bunch of steel in my body.   

[libertybele]

I used a sleeping mask.  It's better if you can't see the tube inches from your face.  As for me, no more MRIs, since I now have a bunch of steel in my body.   

Normally I do fine with MRI's.  But having to not move for over a half hour is a bit much. Either I'll opt out if I need another that long or I'll take some sort of magic elixir.

[sneakypete]

I've had an MRI of the head and cervical spine that lasted almost 45 min., it became overwhelming. Obviously the space is very constricted to begin with and I was told not to move. Gummies or something next time!

@libertybele

DAMN right! Seems like forever when you are strapped down in one of those tubes.

[libertybele]

@libertybele

DAMN right! Seems like forever when you are strapped down in one of those tubes.

I'll know better next time. 

[mountaineer]

Worse are the MRIs where you have to keep the affected body part (in my case, left shoulder) in a very awkward and painful position for those 20 or more minutes. Regular ones are bad enough - it's hard not to think about your nose itching. It's gonna itch, it's gonna itch, I just know it's gonna itch...