Anyone ever had a chest CT for Pulmonary Embolism?

Question

Hi girls,
Yesterday, I had a chest CT scan done for a possible Pulmonary Embolism. This came back normal thankfully, but today I have been doing some research on the radiation exposure and am starting to freak right out. It is saying that they use a very high dose of radiation that can equal up to 4 years of radiation exposure for one scan! I’m reading about risk of breast cancer and lung cancer. I am completely terrified and wish I would have never got that scan done. I didn’t sleep last night because I was so upset that I had this test done! 
Has anyone else had this test? Did your doctors tell you the risk involved? I read the more you have the worse it is, Im wondering what my risk is from having one scan done?

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I work in this field and a few scans is fine. Some people have this scan a ridiculous amount of times In their life and as fine. One scan is NOTHING to get upset over

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No, you shouldn’t be concerned with only having one scan done.. it raises your risk for cancer by about 0.2% over what it would’ve been without the scan and also you have to look at benefits vs risk, a pulmonary embolism is much more dangerous than the radiation.

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one scan really wont put you at too much of a risk. with those tests, to me, the possible benefits outweigh the possible risks of one scan.

Anyone ever had a chest CT for Pulmonary Embolism?

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