RAI and isolation time

• It’s all about how quickly you get the radioactivity out of your system.  The timing you describe sounds similar to mine.  I advise drinking pretty constantly, (take in things you like) having several showers each day  and sucking sweets and chewing gum to protect your salivary glands. Good luck! 

Thank you for your reply. I have just took the tablet! Now the waiting game! 

Hi hope it's going OK I'm waiting on results from thyroidectomy to see if I need rai. I have been told its most likely.

I had the tablet around 330pm. I am feeling ok. No side effects as of yet.  I wake up in the morning feeling well. 
I will keep you updated. Feel free to message me if you want to chat, sounds like we are both going through this at a similar time! 

Hi how long after surgery did you get check up and rai. My surgery was nearly 3 weeks ago. They said about 4 weeks for check up still waiting for appointment. Hope it's  still going OK for you.

It took a while. It was a lot longer than 4 weeks. They advised that we are often told 4 weeks but with the delays it’s always longer. I had my TT at the end of March. So it’s taken a while to get the radioiodine treatment. Keep chasing them and checking. I regularly chased. The hospital I had my TT at didn’t have radioiodine rooms so I am receiving my radioiodine at a different hospital so that could have put a delay to mine also. 
How are you feeling? 

I'm OK thank you just want to know if I'm having iodine treatment as I also have melanoma skin cancer which I had surgery for last year I did start prevention tablets which has been on hold to sort out thyroid. Not sure if it's worth going back on tablet as it's only a small benefit and had side effects.  My melanoma consultants wants scans but his waiting for my thyroid check up. His going to ring me next Wednesday so if I don't hear anything by then he might chase it up. How long were you on calcium tablets for. Its says gp to review so I guess I will have to contact for blood tests. 

Bless you. Yes he might be able to chase it all for you.  
I was on calcium for only a few weeks. Luckily it seems that my parathyroid glands did not get too damaged during surgery. When I left hospital they gave me a blood form with a date on that my GP needed to take my bloods. They were all ok at the check up so I stopped the calcium.  

They gave me a blood form and I went back to same hospital a few days after I was discharged as that's what they told me to do. They never contacted me but I saw results on patient portal and calcium was just OK  and parathyroid was still low. Sorry for going on a bit.

I am not 100% sure but I think you will need your calcium checked again. I would check that again with your consultant. Definitley do not apologise. It’s such a scary time. I keep asking question after question as I just want to make sure everything is right. That’s why I joined up to this forum to chat to people who are going through similar experiences.