"Glass magnet"??? That sounds pretty interesting...

I would ask around at hardware stores or science stores.....maybe you dont actually even have to buy one, just walk into the store and and use it while you are in there......depending on where your piercings are....

I would suggest getting a strong magnet just to be sure. It should be strong enough that it requires some real strength to pull it away from something metal.

Might be late on this but I had my whole spine MRI scanned a few years ago with three Navel piercings in.. they said not to even wear makeup because it contains metal compounds.. :s . But when I asked about by body jewellery they typically, being medical people didn't know what to say really. In the end I just left them in thinking "whats the worst can happen".. and what happened? Nothing!

On the MRI images though it looks kinda like my navels been blown out with a shotgun or something.. looks odd, but the image disruption is limited to that area alone and didn't mess up the parts that they needed to look at. I also had facial piercings at the time.. but if they are scanning your knee I dont see a problem leaving them in.

Oh and I believe I was wearing titanium and some steel :)

Morphineseason, I wasn't paying attention the last few days, and missed that you're from Toronto. Where are you going for your MRI? I've had mine done at Humber River Church Site and Toronto Western, both will make you take your jewelry out. Humber is where the tech gave me a hard time over an acrylic retainer.

I'm not sure what type of jewelry they use at New tribe, but I've heard the same thing about adrenaline. I would make sure you have some good quality stuff in or just pick up some retainers. Six at Exotix (Church and Gerrrard) is awesome for that, he carries all sorts of retainers, Anatometal jewelry and is just generally a great guy. He'll help you switch the jewelry too if you need help.

Random story. Every time I'm out with my Dad and there's magnets he always tries to stick them to my face/ears. Never works (good quality jewelry and all) but he keeps trying. Since he hates my piercings (but is secretly interested in body modification - I'm convinced of it!) I always think it's the cutest thing. Sorry, not relevant in the least, but this thread keeps making me think about it.

Originally posted by Veilside Originally posted by charliex Might be late on this but I had my whole spine MRI scanned a few years ago with three Navel piercings in.. they said not to even wear makeup because it contains metal compounds.. :s . But when I asked about by body jewellery they typically, being medical people didn't know what to say really. In the end I just left them in thinking "whats the worst can happen".. and what happened? Nothing! On the MRI images though it looks kinda like my navels been blown out with a shotgun or something.. looks odd, but the image disruption is limited to that area alone and didn't mess up the parts that they needed to look at. I also had facial piercings at the time.. but if they are scanning your knee I dont see a problem leaving them in.Oh and I believe I was wearing titanium and some steel :) The worst that could happen would have been those 3 piercings ripping through your entire chest getting to the magnets. Obviously if you've got decent quality jewelry there's not risk though.

Well I was laying on my back.. and the magnet is above you.. so they would've just migrated rather violently . Still, if it was a valid risk I'm sure the staff would've played it safe and told me to take them out.  But yeah its more the degradation of the images that is the concern.

Just thought of the episode of myth busters where they tried tattooing pig flesh with ordinary tatt ink and then with ink that they added loads of metal to and putting the flesh through an MRI and nothing happened. Myth being that older tattoos where the ink often had a fair bit of metal content would explode in an MRI.. evidently they don't!