Alliance

I'm getting this done in a few days and I was just wondering.

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Michelle
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snowbunny

A thyroid scan is a painless medical testing procedure. You have to go to radiology/nuclear medicine.

After you sign in, a nuclear medicine tech will give you some radioactive iodine pills to swallow with water. You take these pills and they'll ask you to not eat iodine-rich foods like shellfish and seaweed until all the testing is complete.

Then you leave the hospital and come back in about 6 hours. Then they put you in this crazy looking machine, and you have to lay really still for about 5 - 10 mins (seems A LOT longer when you're in it). Then they move this crazy-looking arm of the machine around your neck to take pictures of your thyroid.

Then you get to leave, and they ask you to come back again in the morning for a 24 hr uptake test - which is basically the same thing as the night before. Then you're done and they send the results to your doc.

I had one done in this past spring, and since the nearest hospital with a nuclear medicine department is about three hours away, DBF and I made a mini-vacation out of it which was super relaxing for me. We went shopping, ate out and stayed overnight at some hot springs.

sabreena

I went for a thyroid scan and pelvic scan together, they did not give me any pills to swallow they just scanned my neck and my plevis, they made me drink a lot of water before though so they can see properly in my ovaries.
she told me that i have granular looking thyroid which is not normal hence i have underactive thyroid which is something i knew anyways...

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PCOS sufferer for at least ten years, Glucose intolernace take metformin 3 a day, Underactive thyroid i take 150mg for it, i am about 13stones and 2lbs in weight, Thalaseamia trate (type of aneamia) and i am very hairy! i am 5ft tall!

recently been having pins and needles and burning sensation in my limbs too
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, live in Manchester, UK.

Esmeralda0328

Well I've gone for two of them. I was diagnosed with Thyroid Cancer this March and the first time I had to go in they did make me take an I-123 radioactive pill. Two weeks prior to this scan I was told to stay on a low Iodine diet though and I also had to come off of Cytomel. They put me in a tube and scanned. Kind of like an MRI.

The second time I went in I did not have to take the I-123 but it was because during the first scan I was given I-131 to destroy my thyroid (had to because of the cancer). So they were scanning what the uptake to the radiation was which after two weeks was very high. The blood tests also came back showing tumor markers but we had to stop there because I found out I was pregnant.

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Me 26
DD--Jasleen 10, DS--Alex 8, DS--Daniel 2
150 mcg Synthroid
1000 mg Metformin
Yasmin <--Failed now expecting #4

Isabelle due 06/02/08

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