
As Donna pointed out, there is such a thing as radiation cystitis, but that usually occurs when people are having radiation therapy to the abdominal area (uterus, ovary, and prostate in particular), and in those cases the bladder often gets absorbed doses that total over 60 Gray (but are usually given in 2 Gray fractions several times a week). Now, if you got that kind of dose to your whole body working in a radiation area, it would kill you in 24 hours.
However, as a radiobiologist, I'm now curious about what would have happened if you'd gotten a much lower dose than that, but still enough to be more than the general population. Do you have any paperwork showing what your quarterly and/or annual radiation doses were (in either rem or Sieverts)? If you don't, you can call your former employer's health physics/environmental health office, and they are legally required to give you copies of all of your dosimetry reports. I'd be interested to know if you had ever gotten a larger than normal dose, especially one that was to the abdominal area (ie, from leaning over a radioactive pipe, contaminated counter, etc).
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