Metal  Clips Showing Up In X ray? My friend had an xray taken recently in the er because she was having pains in her lower belly. The xray is showing two metal clip like things. She was told that they could have came from her c section or tubal ligation. Now the thing is she is not only having pain in this area but she has been getting headaches,backaches, and numbness in her legs. And when she goes through metal detectors she sets them off. We were told by the cop that passed her over with a wand once and whom we had told that she would set them off because of the metal surgical clips that the clips should not set the alarms off cause they are suppose to be made of titanium and that does not set their metal detectors off. So why is she setting off the metal detectors then?

Summarized question: Why a surgical metal clip is causing symptoms of pain in the lower belly, headaches, backaches, and numbness in the legs?