1st follow up after tt and rai

Hi Herbert

Hmm, that's all rather vague of your doctor, isn't it?

My guess would be he's talking of your thyroglobulin blood result - presumably taken before you had any thyrogen injections.

When I had RAI, I wasn't even ALLOWED to have blood tests for 6 weeks after treatment in case my evil radioactive blood should attack the phlebotemist and turn them into Spiderman - or something like that.

3 weeks isn't long for the radiation to have killed off your thyroid cells. I also don't know - and Lass and I have discussed this many times - how long thyroglobulin stays in the bloodstream and so how quickly it should be out of you after the thyroid cells have curled up their toes and keeled over.

More bloods in 6 weeks should give a more robust indication of whether the iodine is doing its magic. But I can't see they'd be able to do more thyrogen and follow up RAI for a good few months as your system should now be totally saturated with iodine.

Hes increased my thyroxine too. 

I'm not overly worried I think it's a waiting game...

You're absolutely right. These things don't get fixed overnight. It might not be a marathon but it's certainly not a sprint either. Probably more of a 5000 meters.

You are correct it was my thyroglobulin result he was looking at..

Seems a bit early having that test 3 weeks after rai. I'll see what the next one throws up 

Thanks x