Guest guest Posted March 12, 2006 Report Posted March 12, 2006 Topper , do you know what RAI does to the rest of the body ? Someone on thyca today posted about her platelets and white blood cell count being effected. I thought - dang! I want to know all that this does to me. I hate finding out pieces here and there. But then, I may have been told when hypo for the RAI cancer treatment, and have forgotten it. Jane Quote
Guest guest Posted March 12, 2006 Report Posted March 12, 2006 The potential side affects do not make me happy.... the chances of breast cancer are hugely increased. The damage to the lymph nodes may not show for as long as twenty years after you get nuked... If it shows it depends on which nodes were damaged and how many. Mine took nearly 14 years to show up... and seems to be in my upper chest..... sigh... How much the radiation affects you has to do with a lot of things. How much they gave you in the first place. How active or inactive you were during quarantine. How clean you were during quarantine. How much food and water you flushed through your body during quarantine. How active your gland was at the time they nuked you (gave you the RAI) and how quickly it got sucked up by your thyroid gland and concentrated there, and how much circulated through your blood stream before being passed out of your body (sweat, urine, bowel movements, breathing and body oils) I have read that it can affect bone marrow... all depending on how long it stays in your system and at what concentration... it can take decades for some of that stuff to show up.. if it ever does. I have a suspicion that some of it might be too 'minor' to show unless they were specifically testing for it.. and I often wonder if there are more than one 'minor' problem that, when combined, account for some of the issues that seem to affect those that have had RAI more... like the calcium stuff and conversion. Have you noticed anything that makes you wonder, or you're gathering information so that you are aware of what to watch for?? Topper () On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 08:13:42 -0000 "rjane1955" writes: Topper , do you know what RAI does to the rest of the body ? Someone on thyca today posted about her platelets and white blood cell count being effected. I thought - dang! I want to know all that this does to me. I hate finding out pieces here and there. But then, I may have been told when hypo for the RAI cancer treatment, and have forgotten it.Jane Quote
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