My mother forbid the store from X-raying our feet when we bought shoes. She was waaay ahead of everyone.

Not a radiation baby, but similar concerns. My oncologist has changed my every 3-month scans from PET/CT to CT only for the same reason. I've had radiation treatments for the lymphoma as well as all the scans to check the efficacy of the treatments and the remission status. He tells me leukemia is a real possibility from such exposure.

Good friend chose radiation over chemo after her breast cancer surgery. It has caused scar tissue that has her on constant pain that cannot be relived. The scar tissue keeps growing, taking over her shoulder muscles so her arm use is greatly reduced. She is a paraplegic so needs her arms!! Due to her spinal injury 30 years ago, her body has always registered pain and reacted to assaults on he body differently than others. Still it points out the dangers.

Sort of off topic but it has to do with radiation exposure. As a child I apparently lived in the area that was used for testing of radiation exposure. There was some type of lawsuit that hit the local papers about it which is why I know I was in the area. Apparently radiated particles were dropped to see what their effect was. Until I turned 35 my mother received and filled out a multipage report about my health history. It was only the last one that I saw and that was only by accident. The report was about 15 pages long and very detailed. Wondering if anyone remembers those reports or were the people who received the radiation treatment tracked once the health problems were known. To my knowledge I was never treated with radiation.

Malfleur, i never heard of such a thing. Sounds like something from a horror movie.

I was another one who played with the fluoroscope machine at the shoe store. I’m surprised I still have feet. However, it was fun watching the bones in your feet wiggle around.

My mom must not have realized it was radiation since she limited the number of x-rays the dentist performed.

Alisande, I never heard of adenoids being removed that way. I do remember kids having tonsils and adenoids removed regularly. I hardly hear of that now, but more of the ear tubes.

Not a 'radiation baby', but probably DES baby. Between 1940 and 1970 pregnant women were given DES (diethlsilbestol), supposedly to help a woman hold on to the pregnancy to term. This was not only damaging to the child in utero, it was proven totally ineffective. (It took 30 YEARS to end this practice?)

Infertility, heart problems, misshapen kidneys -- some of the defects of both male and female children born to mothers given DES. This continues to some degree into the third generation.

One of my best friends died from breast cancer. She was practically a hypochondriac. She lived in the doctor's office. (Her husband had great insurance). She had every operation known to mankind....removing every part that she thought she could do without. She never skipped a mammogram.

When I found out she had breast cancer, I was stunned. It wasn't inflammatory breast cancer. I tend to believe it was from all the xrays she had for years and years.

When I was a teenager I had a bad case of acne. Our family doctor suggested xrays so a few evenings a week I went to his office for this treatment. I look back now and wonder how I've made it to age 86!

No, but when I was 7 had a benign tumor removed from above my knee. The Navy doctors x-rayed that leg every year or more for years to make sure it didn't come back??? Then when I went into the Air Force, had to have it x-rayed again at the Mepes station and they made me do it again in basic training because I pulled a muscle in that leg running. If I ever end up with cancer in that leg I'll know why.