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So I am 29 and over the past 8 years I have had
6 ct scans
2 abdominal
2 Lung
1 head
1 full body
1 nuclear bone scan injection
over 8 normal xrays abdominal and lung = dental
Now I was unaware of the risks of this barium swallow and learnt crap it's 2 years radiation (i thought it was going to be a few pictures not constant beams)
So I am back into the fears that great all these tests from HA lead to actual cancer/leukemia and argh... I no longer have my ex wife to reassure me I need someone with a past similar to me who grew old with no problems. Please help me guys I hate this I was fine for a few years, the barium swallow showed my surgery was fine but he could have done other tests... I just... unaware.
nomorepanic
02-03-18, 22:40
There is no conclusive evidence to prove these can cause cancer.
You will be fine.
You can't change the past but you can change the future.
Medical testing is not risk free. It's is never a good idea to ask for it. If you need it, you need it- as in a doctor is concerned enough to recommend it. If not, learn to live with uncertainty.
I'm a Head and Neck cancer survivor. Guess what they treated me with? Yep.. Radiation. 5 days a week for 6 weeks. Enough to burn the skin off my neck and turn my mouth and throat into mush. And I had a CT scan before each treatment to help adjust the radiation beams. 30 radiation treatments and 30 CT scans in 6 weeks. That's not even counting all the x-rays, CT and PET scans and barium swallows I had in my life. As was said, there's not one case that can be definitively proven to have caused cancer.
Positive thoughts
Hi SEANML, totally agree with nomorepa ic, NervUs and Fishmanpa. Yeah, there is a suggestion that if you get many x rays or ct scans it might increase the risk of cancer, but if it actually does the risk is very small, if I'm not wrong is less than 1%. Look at Mr Fishmanpa and like other cancer survivors, they're literally being bombarded with radiation, to levels that you can't imagine even 40 times higher than a single ct scan, and that is just in one radiotherapy sessions of many more.
I also had a ct scan, but only one of my brain, 5 years ago being 17, just to reassure and it was normal. My headaches disappeared for two weeks after the ct scan was done, but then I started again with the brain tumor fear, and in that ocassion I was scared the ct scan was going to give me cancer. It's just crazy and annoying feeling like this, I understand but why did you get so many? I guess that your doctors felt the need of ordering them because they were necessary and maybe you had something going on, a medical condition?
Hope you feel better, and stop worrying!! (I sometimes don't follow my own advice hahah) No please really stop worrying about this, youll be ok :)
Thannk you , you are all calming me down once again.
They were do to serious pains and HA, later it was diagnosed as fibromalgia and chronic fatigue, after all the radiation.
*Before I had the brain ct and body one from a beating(2 cts) i had gotten. 3 yrs later is when i had the radiation party as we call it lol
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