I have hyperthyroidism and I am been treated with radioactive iodine. May I have normal sex live?
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You should read the link provided below.  You are only "radioactive" for a short time after you take an iodine pill.  And, as always, you can ask your doctor or even the nuclear medicine technologist any questions you have.  There are no dumb questions.....\n\nWhat To Expect After Treatment \n\nA few days after treatment, the radioactive iodine will clear out of your body in your urine. Drinking plenty of fluids during this time will help your body get rid of the radioactivity. To avoid exposing other people to radioactivity, it is important to take the following precautions for the first 5 days after your treatment:\n\nAvoid spending a lot of time around others, especially children and pregnant women. \nDo not sit next to someone in a motor vehicle for more than 1 hour. \nAvoid kissing or sexual intercourse. \nSleep alone in a separate room. \nUse separate towels, washcloths, and sheets. Wash these and your personal clothing separately for 1 week. \nTo further reduce the chance of exposing other people to radioactivity:\n\nWash your hands with soap and lots of water each time you use the toilet. \nKeep the toilet very clean. Men should urinate sitting down to avoid splashing. Also, flush the toilet two or three times after each use. \nRinse the bathroom sink and tub thoroughly after you use them. \nUse separate (or disposable) eating utensils for the first few days, and wash them separately.  http://www.webmd.com/hw/thyroid_disorders/hw148148.asp
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Good morning. Last year I had a hyper thyroid.  With hypo or hyper because of the medications one has to be careful what they eat, the carbs, sugars, starches, calories, fats.  The rest of our lives will always be a calorie Counting one.  I took the Radio Active Iodine pill at the hospital so I am hypo now too.  Best of all, talk to your doctor, see them at least every 4 months. You can also buy the book Woman's Thyroid Resource Book.  Take care, be well :)
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Goiter means your thyroid gland is big. You can have a goiter even with a normal thyroid function test. The only way to find out if there's anything in it is by ultrasound, thyroid scan or a biopsy if a prominent nodule can be felt. These tests are easy and totally painless except for a biopsy of course if needed.\n\nDont be scared you are young and most likely it is not a serious thing and is manageable by drugs. Flag signs for worrying are old age, history of thyroid cancer and shooting high thryoid function tests.
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Iodine Tincture (47º alcohol) applied topically every day even few days after they dissappear. I am sorry I did not realize this was a std Question. I don´t know if it´s going to work or not in genital areas. It works very well knees and torax.
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Go to the Health Department. You do not need to tell anyone about this EXCEPT any sexual partners that you have had (they have a right to know so that they can be treated also). The Health Department will probably want to give you medications, in a shot and in tablet form also. If you have any allergies to medicines please tell the health department what you are allergic to BEFORE they give you medication! Take ALL of the medicine as you are told. Go to the drug store and buy some condoms or the Health Department may have some to give your for free! It is by far cheaper for them to give out condoms than it is to treat a bunch of people with venereal diseases! \n\nLook, do you want to keep your penis? Do you ever want to be able to father a child when you are older? (Because FYI some venereal diseases can cause damage to your testicles so that you will be unable to father children! Or the disease can even affect your ability to get and maintain an erection!) Nobody wants to have a limp noodle! \n\nIn the future before you put your precious penis anywhere besides your own clean hand, gently roll a condom on him, if you do not know how, they will probably offer to show you at the Health Department! As you are putting on the condom remind your partner, that the condom is so you can both be safe and healthy. \n\n**If you do not take all of the medications as YOU are told, then the infection can come back and when it does it may not be as easy to be rid of it. If they want you to come in for a follow up exam, go. They are only trying to make certain that you are healthy and cured from the infection!\n\nGood luck, you should be able to avoid this problem in the future if you use condoms. If you want to stay healthy and keep your penis from literally falling off, you will use the condoms EVERY TIME until you are married to a woman that you KNOW is healthy (and you can hope is faithful to you)!  \n\nThis time is may be something as simple as Gonorrhea or a Urinary Tract Infection or Non-Specific Urethritis that you have picked up from unprotected sex. Many people do not know that you can also have Gonorrhea in your throat, so if you have been diving, you might want them to do a throat culture swab too. Think about this experience before you ever put your thing in anything or anyone else again! The next disease you catch may not go away with just a shot and a few pills, when you get HIV, you will be taking hands full of medicines and you will probably still die! Sex is great, but is it really worth dying a slow lingering contagious ugly death at a very young age?  Please think before you hump in the future! You will be glad you did!
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What's normal for me may not be normal for someone else. My wife says I'd probably want to have sex DURING surgery.
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Hypothyroidism is a condition in which the body lacks sufficient thyroid hormone. Since the main purpose of thyroid hormone is to "run the body's metabolism", it is understandable that people with this condition will have symptoms associated with a slow metabolism. Over five million Americans have this common medical condition. In fact, as many as ten percent of women may have some degree of thyroid hormone deficiency.   Hypothyroidism is more common than you would believe...and, millions of people are currently hypothyroid and don't know it! \nThere are two fairly common causes of hypothyroidism. The first is a result of previous (or currently ongoing) inflammation of the thyroid gland which leaves a large percentage of the cells of the thyroid damaged (or dead) and incapable of producing sufficient hormone. The most common cause of thyroid gland failure is called autoimmune thyroiditis (also called Hashimoto's thyroiditis), a form of thyroid inflammation caused by the patient's own immune system. The second major cause is the broad category of "medical treatments".  As noted on a number of our other pages, the treatment of many thyroid conditions warrants surgical removal of a portion or all of the thyroid gland. If the total mass of thyroid producing cells left within the body are not enough to meet the needs of the body, the patient will develop hypothyroidism. Remember, this is often the goal of the surgery as seen in surgery for thyroid cancer. But at other times, the surgery will be to remove a worrisome nodule, leaving half of the thyroid in the neck undisturbed. Sometimes (often), this remaining thyroid lobe and isthmus will produce enough hormone to meet the demands of the body. For other patients, however, it may become apparent years later that the remaining thyroid just can't quite keep up with demand. Similarly, goiters and some other thyroid conditions can be treated with radioactive iodine therapy. The aim of the radioactive iodine therapy (for benign conditions) is to kill a portion of the thyroid to [1] prevent goiters from growing larger, or [2] producing too much hormone (hyperthyroidism). Occasionally, (often?) the result of radioactive iodine treatment will be that too many cells are damaged so the patient often becomes hypothyroid a year or two later. This is O.K. and usually greatly preferred over the original problem. There are several other rare causes of hypothyroidism, one of them being a completely "normal" thyroid gland which is not making enough hormone because of a problem in the pituitary gland. If the pituitary does not produce enough Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) then the thyroid simply does not have the "signal" to make hormone, so it doesn't.\nSymptoms of Hypothyroidism\n\nFatigue\nWeakness\nWeight gain or increased difficulty losing weight\nCoarse, dry hair \nDry, rough pale skin\nHair loss \nCold intolerance (can't tolerate the cold like those around you)\nMuscle cramps and frequent muscle aches\nConstipation\nDepression\nIrritability\nMemory loss\nAbnormal menstrual cycles\nDecreased libido\n\nEach individual patient will have any number of these symptoms which will vary with the severity of the thyroid hormone deficiency and the length of time the body has been deprived of the proper amount of hormone. Some patients will have one of these symptoms as their main complaint, while another will not have that problem at all and will be suffering from a different symptom. Most will have a combination of a number of these symptoms. Occasionally, some patients with hypothyroidism have no symptoms at all, or they are just so subtle that they go unnoticed.  Note:   Although this may sound obvious, if you have these symptoms, you need to discuss them with your doctor and probably seek the skills of an endocrinologist.  If you have already been diagnosed and treated for hypothyroidism and you continue to have any or all of thes
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I think it's D. Whatever it is please educate me on it. I happen to have issues with my thyroid, steming from being insulin resistent. Seems that the thyroid controls many hormones and once they are out of whack there is no telling what can happen. It's been fun to say the least.
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i'm going to say NOT automatically. It's going to be VERY HARD, as your body needs that for better metabolism.\ni have low thyroid. if you have low thyroid...here's a great question to answer: can you see the floor of your house? that was what was asked of me at one point, and to my amazement, the answer was no!\nanyway, the signs are:fatigue and lack of energy. Women suffering from underactive thyroid experience heavier menstrual periods. Sluggishness and forgetfulness are symptoms of underactive thyroid problem. Other symptoms of this thyroid disorder are dry skin and hair and constipation.\nif you have high thyroid, or an overactive one, the signs are:increased body metabolism. This is followed by weight loss and excessive warmth and sweating. Persons suffering from overactive thyroid experience trembling hands, irritability and rapid heartbeat or palpitations. Women with overactive thyroid or hyperthyroidism may experience shorter or lighter menstrual periods.\nI take medication, and sadly will have to take 1 pill everyday for the rest of my life. there's a blood check that they will do to see if you have low or high. i hope i've helped you!!
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You should be taking synthroid (thyroxin) for the rest of your life after having radioiodine therapy. If you are still tired and listless, you need to speak with your doctor about adjusting your dose. You also need to make sure you are getting sufficient rest and nutrition until you levels of drug are stabilized.
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I have Hoshimotos (my immune system attacks my thyroid). First things first. Go to as many Dr's as it takes to get "Armour Thyroid" It is older than Synthroid & it's not synthetic; It is real pig or cow thyroid. Some Dr's refuse to prescibe it, but it works! Next, if you have the cash, go to an accupunturist. That is not hoo-doo. It is really healpful for all kinds of conditions.
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wow, i did when i was 20 y/o, and it was scarey, but all went well with me, and now i'm doing great...just have to take a thyroid supplement every day, and make sure you have it checked reg. throughout your lifetime...for me, i had to have thyroid removed and then a radiation treatment (I-131)...not all people have to go through this step
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I have hypothyroidism & my doctor put me on Synthroid.
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1 in 8 women has thyroid disease so I would be surprised if that were true.  If your doctor won't work with you, find a new one.  You could use an OB/GYN or a midwife.  FYI, I have hypothyroidism (though it sounds like you have hyper-) and so far have two perfectly healthy children.  Good luck!
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My thyroid was normal for the first 24 years of my life, then went from the size of a marble to the size of a raquetball in about 2 years. It was very overactive and would have kept growing if I hadn't had it taken out.
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Jill, God there are some crap answers here!\n\nRight off, let me say that I am bipolar and was diagnosed about a year and a half ago. My meds are working excellently and there is no reason that yours should not either.\n\nTo answer your question: yes, absolutely. Hypersexuality (an increased need for sex) is a classic symptom of bipolar mania or hypomania. The definition of Bipolar Disorder is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_diagnostic_criteria_for_bipolar_disorder  for what it's worth.\n\nSo in response to all the answers calling you a s!ut and irresponsible, ignore them. Right now you are ill and need treatment. Your behaviour is a symptom, not the way you are.\n\nI'd like to suggest that you come and discuss this with other sufferers - there are many online support groups, bu the two I use are http://www.crazyboards.org (don't be put off by the name!) and http://z9.invisionfree.com/Bipolar_Haven
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There is no "cure" for hyperthyroidism. Best treatment though is medication.