what do xrays do to your balls?

[RadBrad]

actually, not really. he's got 7000+ posts, and is trying to insult someone w/ 24 posts on the basis of post counts. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Nope, burned me honestly as I was having trouble seeing the screen around what my hands were holding.

 

[Crappopotamus]

Originally posted by: gururu
x-rays cannot penetrate lead. they can damage sperm producing cells by mutating dna.
the reason they cover your privates up is to prevent this sort of reproductive damage. Women are more at risk because their eggs are not regenerated. If a mans sperm gets damaged its not a big deal so long as the sperm producing cells are not damaged. If a womens eggs get damaged, she may never have children.
x-rays are highly focused. they can cause damage to tissues they are directed at, but have relatively low risk of causing cancer causing mutations. Frequent hits at the same areas can be bad.

interesting. so xrays to the balls could cause ball cancer. highly focussed. cannot penetrate lead. whew. that comforting...

Originally posted by: BassDominator
The average person isn't exposed to enough x-rays in their life to do any damage. You get exposed to more harmful radiation in one day at the beach than a lifetime of routine x-rays.

People who work with x-rays every day can get in serious trouble, though. Ironically, the most important area is rarely covered: the neck. The most common (but still very rare) and dreaded effect of x-rays is thyroid cancer.... so, wear your neck shield if nothing else.

so next time, lead turtleneck and underwear. check.

 

[Mark R]

Originally posted by: Crappopotamus
how come they have to cover your privates up with a lead barrier before they take an xray? i took a lot of xrays last week, and those xray technicians always scare me because they seem so nonchalant about it. they close the big huge xray room door (lead coated i presume) and they go back and hide behind the gun, and behind a barrier. how accurate is this xray gun?! meanwhile they throw me INFRONT of the gun, and kinda slap a dress on me, leaving me to uncomfortably try and adjust it, without them noticing. are xrays flying around wildly, through my body and into my balls kinda thing? and what do they do to you?

i dont want to go impotent. if i go into the hospital again, i will invest in a pair of lead underpants. :|

and hey. what if someone breaks their hip? thats like impotency for sure.

X-radiation can damage all living cells. Reproductive cells (sperm cells and egg cells) seem to be more sensitive, but uniquely potentially pass their genetic material onto future generations. A suitably large dose of radiation to part of your body could predispose to cancer in that part - a sufficient exposure to your balls could mean that your kids are more prone to cancer.

The doctor ordering the x-rays and the staff performing them need to consider the risks and benefits of the test. There remains some controversy over exactly how harmful medical X-rays are but currently expert opinion is that something like a chest X-ray carries a risk of about 1 in 100,000 to 1 in 1 million of causing a fatal cancer over the next 40 years.

Sounds scary, but medical radiation exposure is strictly regulated, and for the vast majority of people medical radiation dose pales into insignificance when compared to natural radiation (from cosmic rays, radioactivity in natural rocks, etc.) 1 year of natural radiation is about 100 Chest x-rays.

There are other regular activities that can give radiation exposure: if you travel by airliner, you expose yourself to a substantial radiation dose because by flying high in the atmosphere you lose some of its radiation shielding effect (e.g. A single transatlantic flight is roughly equivalent to 1 or 2 chest x-rays).

Medical X-ray equipment has movable shutters on the front which should be adjusted so that only the part of interest is exposed. To achieve this, there is usually a lamp within the X-ray head with a similar beam pattern. The radiographer can then adjust the shutters getting visual confirmation of where the X-rays will go. This is as focused as you can get. There is a tiny amount of radiation which gets through the shutters, as well as the back of the x-ray head which is why the staff need to take precautions, and why additional protection is usually offered for the gonads even if they are not directly within the main beam.

Technicians who work with x-rays need to take every precaution because their cumulative radiation dose may be significant even from the undirected radiation. A technician supervising 500 examinations per week could, over a lifetime, get a significant dose even if they received only 0.1% the dose of each examination.

It is theoretically correct to say that X-rays and gamma rays are the same and therefore have enormous penetrating power and can go through miles of lead. In practice, most medical x-rays are very 'soft' with very low energies, so they are reduced to insignificant amounts by 2 or 3 mm of lead. Theoretically some gets through. In practice, you'd struggle to detect it above the natural background. The difference is purely one of energy. High energy X-rays or gamma rays are used for radiotherapy precisely because of their higher penetrating power and higher tissue damage potential. This also means that the construction of a radiotherapy department needs to be different to that of an X-ray department with much thicker shielding around the rooms - the shielding needs to be so thick that it isn't always practical to shield the ceiling so access to the roof may need to be restricted.

 

[bsmithy]

reminds me of this...



*ZZZAAPPP*

'ow, my sperm'

*ZZZAAPPP*

'hm, didn't hurt that time'

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: theNEOone

Originally posted by: jsbush

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: RadBrad

Originally posted by: alkemyst
Fortunately many here will never have a need for them anyways and if they do being sterile may be a good thing for the rest of us.

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Lets see 7145 posts/(365x3)days = Looks like you haven,t the need either!

I do work from home all day you realize....so figure I get paid to post , lately I have been posting a lot more than usual, but still my average is 6.5 posts a day?!? there are many here in the 20's and some 1 year lifers....but it appears math is not your forte.

Regardless, as of this posting I have 7111 to my name...you may need a visit to a eye doc, 7111 vs 7145 is not combination that you could typo.....I hear masturbation causes blindness. Good luck with it.

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Hahah, burn!!!!

Nice one

actually, not really. he's got 7000+ posts, and is trying to insult someone w/ 24 posts on the basis of post counts. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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You may have a reading comprehension problem going on there....there was no insult based on my post count given. The n00b brought the post count issue up. I merely replied to it as 1) he came up with a number that was not anything like my actual post count and 2) the average is like 6 postings a day....hardly 'no life' level compared to some others here that have Average Posts per Day in a multiple of double digits.

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[RadBrad]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: theNEOone

Originally posted by: jsbush

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: RadBrad

Originally posted by: alkemyst
Fortunately many here will never have a need for them anyways and if they do being sterile may be a good thing for the rest of us.

Å

Lets see 7145 posts/(365x3)days = Looks like you haven,t the need either!

I do work from home all day you realize....so figure I get paid to post , lately I have been posting a lot more than usual, but still my average is 6.5 posts a day?!? there are many here in the 20's and some 1 year lifers....but it appears math is not your forte.

Regardless, as of this posting I have 7111 to my name...you may need a visit to a eye doc, 7111 vs 7145 is not combination that you could typo.....I hear masturbation causes blindness. Good luck with it.

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Hahah, burn!!!!

Nice one

actually, not really. he's got 7000+ posts, and is trying to insult someone w/ 24 posts on the basis of post counts. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

=|

You may have a reading comprehension problem going on there....there was no insult based on my post count given. The n00b brought the post count issue up. I merely replied to it as 1) he came up with a number that was not anything like my actual post count and 2) the average is like 6 postings a day....hardly 'no life' level compared to some others here that have Average Posts per Day in a multiple of double digits.

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The frikin nOOb was trying to add a bit more humor to a rather funny topic posting. The frikin nOOb really could give a crap less how many posts you have(or not), obviously you do, however, have some sort of underlying issue with the subject, If so why not post a new subject on that very subject, and get it out of your system. I will try to inject a little humor into it and see if we can get that stick out of you azz and get you back into a good mood!

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: RadBrad
The frikin nOOb was trying to add a bit more humor to a rather funny topic posting. The frikin nOOb really could give a crap less how many posts you have(or not), obviously you do, however, have some sort of underlying issue with the subject, If so why not post a new subject on that very subject, and get it out of your system. I will try to inject a little humor into it and see if we can get that stick out of you azz and get you back into a good mood!

Error 404: the funny not found....perhaps the joke is in your hand?

However, my mood wasn't affected by what you had to post...and you are being a bit hypocritical by saying I should have taken what you said as a joke, yet what I replied with was soooo serious I put a smiley in it. Whatever issues I may have nothing to do with post counts here.

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[RadBrad]

Whatever issues I may have nothing to do with post counts here.

Å

Maybe to many ball xrays?