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My first Thanksgiving wasn't bad. I was just 1 month out and eating soft foods, but found it interesting to watch all the others just chow down and the sheer amount of food they ate just mystified me. Amazing how just 1 month can change your whole perspective!!!
HW-218/SW-208/CW-126/ Lowest Weight-121/Goal-125 - hit 8/23/09/Height-5'3"
Regain 30 lbs from 2012 to 2016 - got back on track and lost it. Took 8 months.
90+/- pounds lost BMI - 24 or so
Starting BMI between 35 and 40ish?
Join us on the Lightweights Board!
Wishing you all the best.
Robin
Thankful it's curable, but it is still cancer and it's scary!
I am also 8 years out and I also had the iodine 131. I just started synthroid and I am on 175mcg. I had my entire thyroid removed and 36 lymph nodes, 8 were malignant. So, mine spread.
You are correct, its curable and treatable. I go to the endocrinologist next month and will need to follow up with him every 6 months for the first 2 years.
Thanks so much and I wish you all the best.
Robin
Happy and Healthy Holidays
I had Thyroid cancer in 2008 8 years after my rny. I had to have the I131 treatment. I was put in the hospital for 4 days. I had to swallow a pill and stay in the hospital for 4 days.
I had a total thyroid removal. I take 88 mcg of thyroid medicine a day. They had to play with my dose for a while.
I do have to have a scan every year though. I see the oncologist every 6 months to a year.
If you have to get cancer thyroid cancer is the cancer to get. It is curable.
Carla
I had stage one.
Hard to believe that yesterday was 5 years since I had my RNY surgery!!!! I have had my ups and downs, but mostly held the same and kept the weight off.... It is a tough road and I have to work at it every day, but I feel like I am a success story for sure.
I know that first Thanksgiving was a really tough time for me while the turkey and everything was passing by me I was drinking my chicken broth because I was on my liquid diet still.... Actually wasn't that hungry, but the smells still made it tough, but I got through it and I get through all the other family get togethers now. Amazing what this tool can do when you use it right!!!!
I am so thankful for this site, for all my OH family and for my friends and family that have supported me along my journey..... Thanks to everyone for being here for me when I needed you and I am sure I still will in the future....
HUGS to ALL,
Shawn - Lap RNY 11/16/06
319/169/185/204 - 5' 7" Starting/Goal/Lowest/Current
My doc said 6 months. Mine ended up being 9 months apart. Good luck!
I can send you pictures as well as the price if interested. Thanks
