RAI

RAI on 21 May and doctor has put me on a Low Iodine Diet (LID) for 2 weeks.
He said: No seafood, fish, seaweed (Basically anything that lives in the sea, because apparently things that lives in the sea has high content of iodine).

Why low iodine?

The short-term low-iodine diet is another part of preparing to receive radioactive iodine for papillary or follicular thyroid cancer or one of their variants. 

The diet, recommended by ThyCa Medical Advisors, other thyroid cancer experts, and the American Thyroid Association, increases the effectiveness of the radioactive iodine treatment. 

This diet lasts for about 1 to 2 weeks before your radioiodine, and for about 1 to 2 days afterward. 

This diet reduces your consumption of regular iodine so that when the radioactive iodine is given for treatment, any remaining thyroid cells, including thyroid cancer cells, will be “hungry” for iodine. These cells will then more readily absorb the radioactive iodine, which will eventually destroy them. 

There are slight variations in guidelines from different doctors. The ThyCa diet and guidelines have received input and review by numerous thyroid cancer specialists. 

Source: http://www.thyca.org/pap-fol/lowiodinediet/

Website says: AVOID alot of food.
Doctor says: Just anything that lives in the sea (including Oyster Sauce :( !!!)

Just yesterday (Mother's Day), I felt bad like shit because every restaurants we go to, we have to ask if there's any seafood ingredient in their food.

1) Ajisen (seasoning has slight seafood, CANNOT)
2) Siam Kitchen (70% of dishes are seafood, CANNOT)
3) Dian Xiao Er (Went through the menu scrutinising all the dishes, asking the waitress (this one got oyster sauce? got shrimps? got seafood inside?) and manage to order whatever that's left - Duck, veggies, and sweet and sour pork.
Family added a fish for themselves because the items we ordered just looks SO SAD.

Felt so miserable I don't want to eat in a group anymore from now till my RAI finishes.

We had to eat at Lot1 cause they wanted to go City Chain and buy the pair of watch that costs $864.

Pocket burn-burning-BURNT!

So I totally avoid seafood and cut down the rest that are stated in the website, to make sure my life won't be that miserable for 2 weeks.

Sighs, no protein shake after workout too, so I have to prepare SOME food that I could eat right after gym class so I won't go hungry and faint on my 1-hour ride home after.......

My diet really has to change after removing my thyroid. Which includes,
avoiding Milk, Cheese and Butter for my breakfast (WHICH IS ALL MY FAVOURITE FOR BREAKFAST!!!!!!!!) for the rest of my life if I plan to take my Thyroid pills in the morning when I wake up, unless I wake up 4 hours before my intended wake-up time and just to eat da pills.

And in preparation of RAI... This is my first time getting it and doctor says it will not be the last.

"I'm radioactive, radioactive....."
This song kept replaying in my mind when I think of RAI.
Like "Hey Ma! Look! I'm radioactive!"
Ok lame.
Bye!

My blog seems to be growing into a journey for Thyroid Cancer.

MEHHHHH~