#radioactive iodine

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

the low iodine diet is HORRIFIC what you mean i have to be isolated from everyone and everything for a week bc my thyroid decided to grow cancer at a level that concerns medical professionals and i have to radioactive about it but before that i can’t eat jack shit??? “hey so you can’t have dairy or most egg products (outside of egg whites) or soy anything or literally anything with salt unless you know for a fact it’s uniodized or-“ what did i do to deserve this?? the cancer wasn’t enough???

[skylerlovesyou]

what should be my first meal after radioactive iodine treatment for my thyroid cancer?

giant sub sandwich

fried chicken from my favorite chicken place

pad see ew from my favorite thai place

Voting ended onApr 29, 2024

In early December I went to the walk-in clinic to get a doctor’s note for work. The doc… Meggan Shepard needs your support for Help Sky Conq

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i’m on the low iodine diet right now to prepare for treatment, and it’s hell. i’m so ready to eat normal foods again.

[theworldoffostering]

My pathology came back last week. I haven’t had time to write about it, and even less time to process it. They found cancer in several spots on my thyroid/nodules and the margins on one side weren’t great. It’s papillary carcinoma, follicular variant, infiltrative. As a result, they are recommending that I do the radioactive iodine treatment.

I should preface that by saying that the surgeon doesn’t make an official recommendation. She just gave me the pathology information. The endocrinologist I saw prior to surgery called after she got the pathology results and told me she was recommending the radioactive iodine. I am scheduled to see a new endocrinologist before Christmas because the communication and the PA with the other office was horrible. I’m going to treat the December visit as a second opinion.

Now I know:

That I have cancer

What type of cancer it is

What needs to happen next (sort of)

I won’t go forward with treatment until January because I have to be more healed from surgery and go on a low iodine diet prior to the treatment. I also have to be out of the house for a few days after the treatment because I’ll be radioactive. I’m worried about that but no sense in worrying about it now.

Wondering if the impending diet can justify the purchase of a Vitamix blender on Cyber Monday. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[trauma-13]

Random things

We had a patient come into my ED last night, who had within 24 hrs, taken radioactive iodine. She was assigned to my room. I was so afraid of that 14 year old girl and I feel SO BADLY for it.

It took so many of us scrambling to figure out how to take care of her, while also keeping ourselves safe. I still don’t even know if we protected ourselves well enough. I also realized how little we as emergency nurses know about different types of chemos, radiation, etc. When I tell you it was a hospital wide effort, I’m not even kidding. We called the on call chemo nurses, the oncology floor (biggest help), the ED pharmacist, an ED doctor, an inpatient doctor who happened to be in the ED, a different in patient doctor who walked down and heard us discussing and joined in, the trauma dept (thanks for letting me steal lead), my charge nurse, the EVS crew, the nuclear medicine dept, and I’m still probably forgetting people.

I love when a huge hospital, who is usually very divided up by departments, comes together to figure an issue out.

[ask-a-vetblr]

P1/Not really sure what I'm asking, maybe looking for some reassurance? My cat is hyperthyroid and was on methimazole for a while, we kept needing to adjust the dose. He is otherwise happy and living life well, so I decided to go for radioactive iodine treatment. He just had his 1 month posttreatment checkup and his thyroid levels are higher than ever. We are in contact with his vet and the treatment center, and he is going in for another scan at the treatment center as soon as possible. He's lo

P2/ lost a pound and a half since treating with radioactive iodine and I just feel awful. I weighed the pros and cons and thought I had made the right decision to help him. This isn't an emergency, we have a plan in place, I just wondered if any of you have experience with hyperthyroid in cats? Any thoughts? I hate to think that he is uncomfortable. All his other labs are normal, it appears to just be his thyroid.

Ferox here.

Hyperthyroidism is super common and usually fairly predictable with most cats responding as expected to medication or to radioactive iodine, but I’ve seen a few curve balls.

I recall one patient who ended up on 15mg carbimazole three times a day (so 45mg per 24 hours) and was still not controlled (the average dose for a cat is 5mg twice a day, so 10mg total in 24 hours). Our working theory for him was that he actually had a malignant thyroid cancer pumping out the thyroid hormone.

Now, I would have loved to have sent that patient for radioactive iodine or imaging as there was definitely something amiss there, and it wasn’t the cat spitting out tablets as it was worse on methimazole transdermal gel.

It’s entirely possible for malignant thyroid cancers to look like ordinary hyperthyroidism. Sometimes you can feel them in the neck or feel a cyst, and some of these are treated by (very tricky!) thyroid removal and hoping you don’t remove the parathyroid glands as well. Some are treated with more radioactive iodine.

Sometimes they throw another curveball because while the thyroid is usually in the throat, you can have extra thyroid tissue inside the thorax where you can neither see nor palpate it. this may require some fancy imaging to detect.

If radioactive iodine didn’t reduce his levels, if those levels keep growing, there is something odd going on and that next scan might be enlightening.

[mountainofschist]

A week from today I am scheduled to receive my first thyrogen injection... saying I’m nervous would be putting it lightly

[rainbowjay20]

Got up at 5 am. Got home at 4 pm. Officially quarantined. They said the precautions weren't as strict as I had been reading online but I wanted to be super cautious I could be. I have got to stay away from people 6 foot for the first 3 days. 3 foot till I go back on the 7th. Use a separate toliet and shower or wash carefully after myself if I share.(We have two bathrooms, one shower.) Flush twice.(Sorry eco warriors!) He said bleach wipes wouldn't be an issue but if it was a higher dose of RAI it would be because it could aerosolize the radiation.(Don't play with chemicals, kids!) He said we don't have to hold on to the trash for weeks before disposing of it or double bag it. (They have fancy detectors now that can tell medical radiation from other kinds. Neat!) He said don't touch communal dishes or cooking utensils.(I precooked!) Also I can stop the damn diet Friday. YEAH!!!(Pizza and Starbuck here I come!) He said that hold on to my clothes and bedclothes and wash them together but it didn't need to be twice and run a rinse cycle afterwards. (Damn the water bill will be high this month!) Basically avoid babies and small children.(Not an issue. But my poor puppy thinks I've abandoned her!) So all this I knew but it helps hearing it from the doctor.

Then he took out the lead lined capsule and gave it to me. They said it would take up to two hours to fully kick in that's why it's okay to drive home on the opposite side of the car from someone as long as it wasn't a long drive. It was close. We hit traffic coming home as well as the in.

More Polish neighborhood stuff trying to avoid said traffic.

About 15 to 20 minutes after we got home I felt it hit my stomach. Not nauseous but funny. So I'm radioactive.

Welcome to the New Age.

[the-kittensaurus-rex]

Today I recieve radioactive iodine.

I'm exhausted and not ready for this, but who is ready for getting and treating cancer anyway?

I'll feel better when this nightmare is over.