Hi all,
I have a 2 part question:
1) Has anyone had radioactive iodine therapy for Graves Disease, and how soon after did you TTC? I have been told to wait from 6 months to a year, and I wanted to start trying in September, which would only be 10 months after the treatment.
2) Because I had this treatment, I have had to wait to TTC, I wanted to do it this past summer, because I dont want a big age gap between my son (2 1/2) and second child. At this rate, it would be about 4 years if I TTC this summer/September. The thing is, I hope to start a new job in September in the school system, and dont know what superviors would think if I just started, and a couple months later am sporting a bump. I would try to time it to have a due date in the summer, but still...
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks!!
I got pregnant a month after have I131 treatment. We had been having major difficulty ttc prior to it so we weren't very careful afterwards, thinking that it still wouldn't happen - but it did. We were pretty scared at first of the possible risks to the baby but all of the radioactive iodine flushes from your system rather quickly anyway. The baby, now almost ten, happens to be gifted and talented - with a 97th % full scale IQ. :) Good luck!
Hi, I had Graves disease and radioactive iodine. My doctor's told me not to even try to get pregnant at least a year after that. Now, I did have it when I was 22 and didn't have a my daughter until I was 29. I did though have problems during my pregnancy with my thyroid and afterwards.
K.
Y., have your levels come down to normal?
i have my iodine treatment in april of last year and they're still all over the place. in meantime i developed bulging eyes. my doc. has said at least a year to wait before getting pregnant. did your doc. tell you to go in for blood work every 2-3 months for the first year as they will readjust your synthroids?
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vlora
HI Y.,
CAN U TELL ME WHAT THE TTC STANDS FOR, MY DAUGHTER JUST HAD HER THYROID REMOVED ON DEC 19, THEY HAD DID A BIOPSEY BEFORE THEY REMOVED IT , BUT THE RESULTS WEREN'T REALLY CLEARED, SO THEY SUGGESTED THAT IT BE REMOVED, THANK GOD BECAUSE WHEN THEY SENT IT TO THE LAB AND THERE WERE CANCEROUS CELLS, AND YESTERDAY SHE JUST TOOK THE RADIOACTIVE PILL TO DESTROY AND THYROID TISSUE THAT WAS LEFT , THEN NEXT WEEK SHE'LL HAVE AFULL BODY SCAN, AND RIGHT NOW SHE NOT ALOUD AROUND HER CHILDREN FOR 8 DAYS.
