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Originally Posted by omega  I'm going through the same thing with my thyroid but my is hypothyroidism - not making enough of the hormone. I had an ultra sound done and now they want to do an uptake scan where you have to take a radio active pill one morining at the hospital and go back the next morning for the scan. I'll be glowing inside.  They were going to do a biopsy but the guy didn't think he would be able to get it. (there is a growth on mine, too)
Let me know when you have your appointent, I'd be interested in knowing what they have to say. |
I have had three of those done...they are nothing really...you go in, in the morning and take a pill (you can't have a multi-vitamin for the week before taking the pill or allergy pills, etc...but they should tell you all of that --- well, my first appt they didn't tell me until they called to remind me of my appt and I had to have that rescheduled)
Anyway, you take that pill and then go back later that afternoon for your scan...it is like an open MRI machine (or mine was) and then you have to go back in the next morning and they check your levels of radiation...they just scan your thigh (or they did mine - even though it was for my thryoid)...I forgot what they said about why they scanned my thigh to check for the levels. Crazy.
The first one, they told me that the radiation was no higher than going thru an airport?! Then the other one, which was actually the same, just a different tech, told me not to hold babies or hold Mojo, etc. But my MIL went in the room with me for the scan. The third time, they told me the levels were not high enough to worry about, but they wouldn't like my daughter (teen) go in the room for the scan...although a nurse who just had a baby was walking around back there showing off her baby
So go figure?!