I am very claustrophobic. Even my own hair in my face makes me breathless. But I had not probs with the MRI (they did my neck to see if osteo arthritis in cervical spine was causing pressure on carotid artery). There was like a fan blowing light breath of cool air in my face and they gave me my choice of music to listen too. The most difficult part was not wiggling feet to da blues. Got to keep still.