[Ski]

#1067457

Wow ~ first of all, please try not to worry. The recommendations for a six-month wait are typically overcautious. We have actually had people come here under your same circumstances, and all has worked out just fine. Has anyone figured out when you may have become pregnant? The real question is not about what your RAI dose would be doing to the fetus now, because if you had it in June, your radiation levels should have completely dropped to normal by now. The question is whether the egg that has been fertilized was affected when you had the RAI dose. The only way the egg can be affected is while it is maturing, so there is a fixed number of eggs that would have been in that cycle at the time you were given your RAI dose. In addition to that, the only way RAI can affect the egg is through tangential contact, since most of the excess RAI (the portion NOT taken up into your thyroid) is flushed out in your urine, and your bladder is near the ovaries. If you followed the typical instructions of drinking a lot of water and urinating often, that risk is extremely small. It’s all a pretty longshot problem, but of course doctors are in the business of keeping you MORE than safe, so they recommend six cycles pass before you attempt a pregnancy.

The best thing for you to do right now is to round up your medical professionals, including your ob/gyn (and perhaps a high-risk ob/gyn) so they can all weigh in with their opinions and facts. Each one has a certain area of expertise, and when you put them all together, you’ll get the best possible answer.

[kgraham75]

#1067458

My RAI was done the end of June, I got pregnant the end of Aug. I know the weekend of conception as I hadnt had sex for 2 yrs, and then had one awesome weekend finally and ended up pregnant………so I dont know how many of those eggs were affected?

[Ski]

#1067459

The best thing to do is consult with a pediatric endocrinologist and a high-risk ob/gyn, and your own endocrinologist, answer all of their questions, and hopefully you can come up with some good information to consider. I’m sure they’ll all tell you what they know, and what they’ve seen, and what they suppose, and then the decision is really up to you after that. It’s like anything else, when they’re looking at a very rare circumstance, there isn’t going to be a lot of hard data to go on, but you get the best info possible and then make your own decision on how to proceed.

In the meantime, truly, try not to worry too much. This is a delicate time for a pregnancy, and you want to be at your best too.

[kgraham75]

#1018845

In June I had the RAI treatment done due to Graves diagnosis………since then have had my levels taken every 2 weeks, and though I’ve never been told the numbers, I am told after each blood test that my levels are still very high, and that I should be below normal by now and possibley on a replacement. I was told to not become pregnant for 6 mo. to a yr. Put on the the birth control shot to avoid that. I developed an infection mid-August and was put on 20 days of Anti-biotics, and have now found out I am pregnant………..my HCG (?) levels are lower than normal pregnancy levels, but I am told that it has been known that some women have lower HCG and normal pregnancies. They want me to have some tests done to determine if the fetus is ok at this point so I can make a decision. There is a heartbeat. I am extremely worried about what the radiation is doing to the fetus…….is it possible that I can have a normal healthy pregancy/baby? I have no one to help me with the decisions to be made, and am not able to sleep with all this worry.

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