Xray Question (medical people. . . )

[episodic]

I had a spine xray today (in a doctor's office). The only other xrays I've had have been dental.

Is it normal to feel an 'electric' charge around you when you get the xray? I just thought it was normal and didn't say anything. However, I mentioned it to my wife and she said she hadn't ever felt anything like that. . . I'm kinda paranoid sometimes. . . is that normal? Should I call the doc?

 

[mundane]

It was likely an ethereal transdimensional parasite, which briefly manifested itself in our space when induced with that frequency of x-rays. Nothing to be concerned about.

 

[SonnyDaze]

I'm not a medical people but I've had quite a few Xrays done and I can't relate to this feel of an electrical charge you describe. Where you standing or lying for the xray?

 

[Safeway]

It was probably in your head. You were nervous about the X-Ray, so you sort of spasmed with each picture.

 

[summit]

what? what do you mean electric charge?

 

[vi edit]

Did you have to take any contrast? Either via drinking it or by IV? That can cause that in some people.

 

[episodic]

It was like a 'static' buzz - not painful or anything just like the feeling you get when you play with a balloon and rub it in hair to generate static and hold it near your arm.

I was standing.

 

[episodic]

Originally posted by: vi edit
Did you have to take any contrast? Either via drinking it or by IV? That can cause that in some people.

No - nothing like that.

 

[krylon]

Originally posted by: episodic
I had a spine xray today (in a doctor's office). The only other xrays I've had have been dental.

Is it normal to feel an 'electric' charge around you when you get the xray? I just thought it was normal and didn't say anything. However, I mentioned it to my wife and she said she hadn't ever felt anything like that. . . I'm kinda paranoid sometimes. . . is that normal? Should I call the doc?

:camera: or shens

 

[Gibsons]

Originally posted by: Safeway
It was probably in your head. You were nervous about the X-Ray, so you sort of spasmed with each picture.

This should end the thread. But won't.

 

[SonnyDaze]

Originally posted by: vi edit
Did you have to take any contrast? Either via drinking it or by IV? That can cause that in some people.

I thought that was only for MRI? That is some freaky stuff though.

I almost freaked out in the tube getting an MRI when they administered the contrast via IV. Weird feeling of the world closing in on me. :Q

Originally posted by: Gibsons

Originally posted by: Safeway
It was probably in your head. You were nervous about the X-Ray, so you sort of spasmed with each picture.

This should end the thread. But won't.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: SonnyDaze

Originally posted by: vi edit
Did you have to take any contrast? Either via drinking it or by IV? That can cause that in some people.

I thought that was only for MRI? That is some freaky stuff though.

I almost freaked out in the tube getting an MRI when they administered the contrast via IV. Weird feeling of the world closing in on me. :Q

Originally posted by: Gibsons

Originally posted by: Safeway
It was probably in your head. You were nervous about the X-Ray, so you sort of spasmed with each picture.

This should end the thread. But won't.

They use it a lot in CT's too. If they are doing digestive or renal XR imaging then there may be a contrast given. Not usually the case with bones.

 

[paulney]

Never experienced anything like that. And I've had chest xrays done when I was a kid, and that was on old Xray machines which gave you a much bigger dosage of radiation then modern ones.

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: Gibsons

Originally posted by: Safeway
It was probably in your head. You were nervous about the X-Ray, so you sort of spasmed with each picture.

This should end the thread. But won't.

/thread.

 

[OCGuy]

Did you feel a hardon collision?

 

[eits]

you're being paranoid. x-ray = light. there's no electricity or anything involved in an x-ray exposure (other than the electricity that's necessary for the mas and kvp and exposure time).

anyway, what did your x-ray show? what kind of doctor shot the x-ray? why?

edit: the only way you felt this electric field around you is if somehow, there was some electrical wiring issue that sent some electricity to the bucky. whenever the exposure was being taken for that split second, it sent the charge to the bucky and you felt it because your back was against it.

that's the only explanation i've got for what you felt, other than it being all in your head.

 

[coldmeat]

I like how the dentist puts a lead apron on me before he shoots the x-rays at my face.

 

[alevasseur14]

Originally posted by: SonnyDaze

Originally posted by: vi edit
Did you have to take any contrast? Either via drinking it or by IV? That can cause that in some people.

I thought that was only for MRI? That is some freaky stuff though.

I almost freaked out in the tube getting an MRI when they administered the contrast via IV. Weird feeling of the world closing in on me. :Q

I was too out of it when I got my first CT but when I went in for the second one the nurse told me some people feel like they're wetting themselves. I didn't believe her until there was no doubt in my mind I'd just peed my pants, er, gown. I made her check twice.

Really bizarre.

 

[djheater]

Could have been a short somewhere, shocking the table.

 

[arcenite]

I would at least mention it to... say... your doctor.

 

[Sea Moose]

we need to remove your spleen

 

[amdhunter]

It's just the cancer vibrating with the xray beam.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: alevasseur14

Originally posted by: SonnyDaze

Originally posted by: vi edit
Did you have to take any contrast? Either via drinking it or by IV? That can cause that in some people.

I thought that was only for MRI? That is some freaky stuff though.

I almost freaked out in the tube getting an MRI when they administered the contrast via IV. Weird feeling of the world closing in on me. :Q

I was too out of it when I got my first CT but when I went in for the second one the nurse told me some people feel like they're wetting themselves. I didn't believe her until there was no doubt in my mind I'd just peed my pants, er, gown. I made her check twice.

Really bizarre.

When I had my CT done for a kidney stone, the couple rounds of contrast they shot through me made me sneeze uncontrollably. That really pisses off the CT techs when you need to be laying there completely still.

Oops.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: episodic
I had a spine xray today (in a doctor's office). The only other xrays I've had have been dental.

Is it normal to feel an 'electric' charge around you when you get the xray? I just thought it was normal and didn't say anything. However, I mentioned it to my wife and she said she hadn't ever felt anything like that. . . I'm kinda paranoid sometimes. . . is that normal? Should I call the doc?

i would say it is not normal to feel and 'electric charge'. radiation, as you've had it, should not be seen or felt.

 

[alevasseur14]

Originally posted by: vi edit

Originally posted by: alevasseur14

Originally posted by: SonnyDaze

Originally posted by: vi edit
Did you have to take any contrast? Either via drinking it or by IV? That can cause that in some people.

I thought that was only for MRI? That is some freaky stuff though.

I almost freaked out in the tube getting an MRI when they administered the contrast via IV. Weird feeling of the world closing in on me. :Q

I was too out of it when I got my first CT but when I went in for the second one the nurse told me some people feel like they're wetting themselves. I didn't believe her until there was no doubt in my mind I'd just peed my pants, er, gown. I made her check twice.

Really bizarre.

When I had my CT done for a kidney stone, the couple rounds of contrast they shot through me made me sneeze uncontrollably. That really pisses off the CT techs when you need to be laying there completely still.

Oops.

Heh, I was too busy writhing in pain to be still the first go around. An IV shot of Dilaudid took care of that right away though!