Hi, Kj, It’s been quite a while since I had my RAI treatment. but 15-plus years later. I’m still here!
I actually had to go through the RAI therapy 3x within a 18 month period.
I am no doubt, one of the lucky people who have had no discernable symptoms during the treatment or after.
I was 47/48 yrs old when I had the therapy to ablate my thyroid. Maybe I’m the wrong person to ask, but I had very few problems even with having swallowed 3 pills.
I still wish I had had surgery instead of the RAI because of the damage that I may have done to my iodine receptors and such. But, when it comes to side effects immediately after the therapy or long-term I can’t say I was affected.
My one big bit of Advice: once you are thyroidless start taking a natural thyroid med that gives you all the hormones your thyroid made when it was part of your endochrine system i.e. T3, T4, calcitonin etc.
If you allow your thyroid to be removed and then start on T4 meds only like Levoxyl, Levoxothyroxine etc. You WILL eventually run into problems, especially with your Adrenal glands.
terchiron
