Ok, I'm freaking out a bit. I went to the chiropractor today and he wanted an X-Ray to see how things were progressing. Everything's cool and I stand sideways to the beam and when he takes the shot I can distinctly feel the blast hitting my arms. Like the kind of thing that was not at all subtle. It was not painful reall, more uncomfortable. It felt like billions of tiny needles were poking my arms gently. It tingled. The closest thing I could compare it to would be being in a VERY strong electromagnetic field. That's still an inadequate description though.
So, am I gonna die? If so that's cool...my life sucks anyways I just want to know so I can make plans for it...
well technically if i'm not mistaken, an x-ray is when those millions of particles hit a hard enough surface that they create an image whereas they pass through soft tissue. so IN THEORY you may be describing those millions of particles piercing your body, but i don't think that is very likely unless something went very very wrong, but i think you would know.
did you say anything to the guy? i can understand if you didn't, i would feel dumb even if i was 100% sure of what i felt.
This is something new to me as well. Definately let the Chiropractor know about what you experienced, so that he does know. I would ask when was the last time he had his equipment calibrated/checked.
However, if you don't want to do that you could:
A. Call the hospital and ask to speak to a radiology tech and tell him what you experienced and ask if that is at all possible. If so, what are the side effects if any.
B. Go to the ER and get checked.
C. Talk with your MD regarding this.
On second thought call the hospital and ask to speak to radiology tech and ask him. You can call the hospital anytime 24/7. Call and find out. Soon...
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Ok, I called the nurse helpline that is available through the insurance I have and the RN had never heard of anything like that. Then I called the radiology department of my local hospital and talked to a radiologist with 46 years int he field and she said that she had never heard of anything like that either.
I'm kind of freaked out now since NOBODY has ever heard of this. Do you know if there's any way to check for damage or anything like that? Any symptoms besides like developing cancer to being overexposed to X-rays?
My arms kind of hurt and feel tight, but it didn't really start until I started freaking out so it could just be in my head.
I'm going to call the chiropractor tomorrow and see what he has to say. I know he doesn't know what's going on but I hope he can do a test on the machine or something to see what may be wrong.
Sorry to tell you, but it's in your head. At least, not unless you also feel the radiation from your microwave oven...I remember thinkin' I felt my first X-ray, but I was freaking at the time. No to mention radiation rarely feels tingly, at least until after the warmth stage...remember I worked on nuclear warheads, and radio and microwave towers.
But you shouldn't feel an X-ray because even if you did feel it, it would be bouncing off your bone, causing that to "move", not your soft tissue. Not to mention the "heaviest X-rays" weight 4.04/(6.023x10^23) GRAMS. And a gram is 0.035 ounces, so if your calculator will do the math, it's much lighter than the weight of most of your individual atoms.
Remember, my mom's been doing X-rays since '84 so give me a call if you want to talk to her. She's highly intelligent. Does X-rays, CAT scans, Angiograms, MRIs, Ultrasounds, Mammograms, you name it.
No Gabe. I felt it. I've had somewhere over 30 X-Rays. I was not nervous at all. I had been X-Ray-ed by this machine before.
I don't know what I was feeling, maybe it wasn't the X-Rays hitting me, but the X-Ray machine did it when he took the exposure. When I mentioned it to him he said that a few people had told him they felt something.
So I do not in any way know what I was feeling (maybe not X-Rays), but the X-Ray machine did it and it was not the subtle kind of thing that could be either way. It was more like holding onto a Tesla coil. It felt a lot like being in a strong EM field.
If the chiropractor said other patients experienced the same thing, I would try to get ahold of whoever does the radiology regulation in your state. Maybe they have a machine that is out of compliance or something.
Well, X-ray machines contain the radiation with magnetism when they are not exposing film. So maybe, the magnet has problems. I would assume being subjected to a strong magnetic field would be less dangerous than radiation for people near the machine.
I doubt it was the X-Rays I was feeling very highly, but I was feeling something and it was pretty intense. Also, I felt it where I was not having imaged. He was imaging my spine and my arms were out in front of me and they were the only spots I felt it.
I was figuring there would be an easy answer involving ionized air circulation or EM field or something like that...not that I had been hit by deadly radiation.
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