ha, i kind of liked all the "dear sir" emails and "pm"s I was getting....
karenv, there was a thread a while back about this topic - you might be able to find it via search function.
i think the consensus was - there are women in radiology, GI, cardiology, etc. so it's not just an issue in pain. anecdotally, i spoke to two female pain docs who wore radiation badges near the area of their uterus - then put on their regular lead aprons and went about their days doing injections. They said when they checked the badges a month or two later, there was NO radiation detected on those badges. it's anecdotal but it's something.
there are also "pregnancy shields" - extra thick lead skirt that you can wear to shield the uterus area. probably will give you SI joint pain but may be worth it for the first trimester. you could technically cut down your procedures during the months you think you may try to get pregnant - do more EMGs, trigger points, consults, etc.
check this out from the UAB dept of radiology
http://www.rad.uab.edu/Downloads/Policy_Pregnant Resi#2DC807.pdf
"According to the sample calculation in section I, which assumes the operator is wearing a maternity apron, it would take 100 exams
of 5 minutes each at the maximum fluoro rate in the course of a month to reach the monthly exposure limit for pregnancy. In reality many exams are performed belowthe maximum fluoro rate."
and
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1553929
