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makingway
makingway Member Posts: 799
edited June 2014 in Radiation Therapy - Before, During, and After
Patient Safety:

Radiation Exposure in X-ray Examinations

* What are x-rays and what do they do?
* Measuring radiation dosage
* Naturally-occurring "background" radiation exposure
* X-ray safety
* X-rays over your lifetime
* Pregnancy and x-rays
* Radiation exposure from interventional radiology procedures
The average person in the U.S. receives an effective dose of about 3 mSv per year from naturally occurring radioactive materials and cosmic radiation from outer space.Upon review and comparison of imaging procedures you will find that the dosage of radiation of a mammogram is NOT equivalent to a day in the sun, nor a plane flight across the USA as the medical technicians tell us.
http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/safety/index.cfm?pg=sfty_xray#5

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  • RegulJ
    RegulJ Member Posts: 244
    edited May 2010

    As a former Nuclear Medicine Technologist I understand your concern. I dealt with radiation all day long- handled it, and injected it into my patients.

    There isn't a day that goes by when I ask myself if the job I loved and was fascinated with everyday that gave me my condition?

    Maybe it is all the medium rare steaks I love to eat? or my love of peanut butter? Or maybe is was all the water I drank out of a hose as a kid? or my love of sweets?

    If I was paranoid about every aspect of my condition or treatment I might as well go jump off a bridge and get it over with.

    Until then I will do everything necessary to keep going and pray that the days of "Star Trek" are right around the corner and will cure us all of this disease once and forever.

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  • makingway
    makingway Member Posts: 799
    edited August 2010

    RegulJ- You are wise to ask yourself if your job may have given you cancer. There are many things which can contribute to developing cancer. In addition to your job, being around radiation all day. The steak you love has hormones in it. The animals are pumped with antibiotics because the genetically modified corn and soy which they are fed, make them very ill.The peanut butter most likely has gmo soy oil in it to keep it from separating. Consuming sugar is the worst thing anyone with cancer can do. Cancer loves sugar!

    Bottom line-You need to be paranoid.

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  • 3monstmama
    3monstmama Member Posts: 1,447
    edited August 2010

    makingway I respectfully disagree.  I see nothing productive from being paranoid.

     RegulJ, you hit the nail on the head: if we are paranoid about about every aspect of our condition or treatment, we might as well jump and be done with it.

    That we have control over life and what happens to us is a myth.  What we can control is how we react to what happens to us.  And being paranoid and and worrying every minute of every day about everything we eat or drink or do or every life experience is no way to live.

    IMHO.

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  • makingway
    makingway Member Posts: 799
    edited August 2010
    3monstmama-Being paranoid is productive, in that it may possibly save your life. What is not productive is to bury our heads in the sand-to 'act' as we have no control over the choices which we make. I agree, we don't have control over all things in life, but we do have control over what we put in and on our bodies. It's a choice. I don't worry or live in paranoia. I am content in knowing that what I eat is 'good' for me, most of the time. Watch the DVD Food Inc. or read the book Anticancer by David Servan Schreiber MD. if you have any doubts.
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