If you don't follow the LID , the RAI will not work. Your appointments are probably already confirmed, so you will have to change everything. Just try to hang in there and it will soon be done.
Well, my doc told me to think of it as LOW iodine, not NO iodine. I followed that stupid diet pretty faithfully but I will admit that towards the end I did eat one french fry and a possible dorito! And my RAI treatment was very effective so I think if you freak out and eat one piece of cheese it's not going to make it all for nothing. I remember having dreams of the enormous pizza I was going to order when I was off the diet. Then when the time came where I could have the junk again, I didn't want it. I think it's true what they say that once something is out of your diet for long enough you really do stop craving it.
I guess I'm just getting myself worked up because even though I know the diet will end soon maybe a few weeks, last year after the R-131 I had no taste at all for about 2 months and then it was slow to come back. Everything tasted like licking a metal cookie sheet. I didn't enjoy my favorite foods till at about 6 months after the ablation. when I was writing the post my ever loving but clueless husband was cooking up a big pizza for himself and the kids and the aroma that filled the house was unbearable. I lost it! I went in the kitchen, pulled the pizza from the oven and threw it in the trash. My husband had to take my shocked kids out to eat just so I would not have to smell it!
I was never placed on a LID diet - per my lousy endo that ordered the RAI
SO what that did to me was throw my whole treatment off.
To this day I have no idea how much my gland is dead and I believe I still have live tissue
I was in horrible pain and sickness for many years after
so don't cheat.
I understand! At least every time I have had to do the LID, my kids have been away at school and my husband works a LOT. That way, I wasn't around a lot of non LID food. The hardest part was when I went to Toronto for a special occasion and had to be on LID. Everyone else could enjoy the restaurants, but not me. I made up for it when I was done though!
Trish
PS I'm picturing the look on your family's face when you threw that pizza away!
Hey - not worth the fact that you want to kill this cancer so you don't have to go through the LID again. Just dream of cheese - I know that I had brie and gouda on the brain for weeks on end.
You gals are GREAT! thanks for the support!