can radioactive iodine treatment for Graves cause a man to become sterile?
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When radioactive iodine is used to treat an overactive thyroid, the dosage is usually quite small.  The radioactivity is mostly in a form that travels very short distances in the body usually 1/8 of an inch or less.  Radioactive iodine does not even damage structures next to the thyroid gland itself. There is no sterility, and no danger to unborn children. It is quite safe to have children after therapy. Doctors usually do recommend that you wait six months after the therapy if your a woman and planing on becomming pregnant. Hope this helps.
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Chlamydia doesn't cause a person to become sterile.  Because it has no symptoms, you can have it for a long time and not know it.  It can cause something called Pelvic Inflammatory Disease. PID can cause you to become sterile, because after it is treated, with the passage of time, scar tissue builds up and attaches to the ovaries and Fallopian tubes, which then can make it hard to get pregnant.  So it really depends on the person, and how much scar tissue builds up, and many other factors as to whether the person becomes sterile or not.
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Radionucleides.  The only time you might ordinarily be exposed to them is during a medical proceedure wherein the radiation they emit is a desired aspect.  Those proceedures are either for diagnostic purposes or theraputic purposes.  \n\nBad for you?  No, the amount of radiation your body is exposed to during such an exam is quite minimal.  On the other hand, theraputic radiation is very, very carefully controlled and administered.  In the past, folks sometimes experienced quite a bit of discomfort during radiation therapy.  That's much less the case now, and we have medicines to help what discomfort there is - medicines that simply were not avaliable until recently.\n\nThat having been said, there's been a lot of fuss and bother over the possibility of someone "exploding a dirty bomb",  meaning a device that might spread radioactive particles over a wide area.  Despite Homeland Security's attempts to panic us, that is very, very, VERY unlikely.  So is a nuclear accident like Three Mile Island twenty or so years ago - and Three Mile Island, frightening as it was for people living nearby, left nobody outside the plant sick from radiation - nobody.  But a serious accident COULD result in many, many serious injuries and deaths.  The proper response is for surrounding communities to have in place a proper disaster response plan that may include mass evacuation and prophylactic medicines in stock.  Unfortunately, despite all the hype and all the promises, vitually no community has done squat to properly prepare for either a nuclear accident or a deliberate attempt an spreading nuclear-contaminated materal.  Sure as can be, the Federal government has done virtually nothing worthwhile in that respect!   The stinkers...
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I think that a defit of iodid can make thyroid resistance.
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i agree with the poster above who said that goiters can come from a lack of iodine.  however, the poster hasn't given the full story.\n\na nodule in the thyroid can be many things:  it can be a part of a multi-nodular goiter, as the poster said.  it can also be a primary hyperthyroid disease (such as Graves disease) or part of a thyroiditis.\n\nor it could be cancer.\n\nso, just taking more seaweed and fish won't necessarily be the best treatment.  i would get the nodule checked out by ultrasound.  depending on how big it is, a head and neck surgeon may elect to watch it or to take out part or all of your thyroid.\n\ngood luck
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How come you are not asking his doctors this question? Only doctors can give an answer on such a serious matter.\n\nHope he is cured.\n\nGood Luck
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I havent  heard this disease  mentioned in a  long while.   It's  one  of the  autoimmune  diseases,    in  which   a  part of the body is attacked by the body itself, in this  case   the body part  affected is  the thyroid  gland.     I've   never  really  thought about it,  but I suppose  it   could  always be possible  that  these autoimmune  conditions may be  becoming more prevalent  because of  the increasing contamination of our air and  water.I always  wonder, too, about all these  "air fresheners", sprays  and spritzes ,scented  candles  and suchlike  that   are  constantly   being pitched  at us for this or that purpose..  Flying insect  sprays,  deodorant  sprays  and so on..   I stay away  from all that  stuff  myself.  LOLOL  I never heard   of  anybody  dying   from the smell of  sweat...  or  from having a  few  odd flies wandering  around  the  house.\n                                                                   Anyway,  Hashimoto's Disease is certainly  a  real condition,  and I  imagine  you could probably  get  a  lot of information  about it  off the internet.
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I have no experience in this area.  Castration is too extreme and I doubt doctors will perform this just so you can be sterile.  Castration is done for patients who have advanced testicular cancer or advanced prostrate cancer.\n\nI have posted links to WebMD that provide information to your questions.  They do a better job than I ever could at explaining this.
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All i know is that women should not attempt to get pregnant until 6 months has passed from the treatment. But discuss this with the oncologist. Your girlfriend will need Thyroxin\nhormone as a form of tablet every day for the rest of her life, as there will be no hormone production in the thyroid gland, especially if they plan to remove the thyroid later (thyroidectomy).\nI am not aware of any recurrence of leukemia or other cancers, but this is something that you could discuss with the oncologist. Write all the questions down and demand an answer :)\nSome patients who have hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid) also undergo radioactive iodine treatment.
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I have a hyperthyroid and I talked to my doctor about what will happen when I am ready to have kids.  He said that because of the hyperthyroid it might be harder to get pregnant but as long as its treated there should not be any problems.\n\nI had also heard that untreated hyper thyroids can cause newborns to have growth deficiencies but he said that was not true either.\n\nJust get yourself treated!  You'll feel better!
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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 seriously just went through this with my husband(32yrs.), it took me two years to get him to go..he finally realized that it could be adding to his health issues or be a issue of something more serious. You should tell him that he needs his regular check up,make the appointment for him (men won't do it!) call the nurse ahead of time( if he doesn't want you there) and ask them to do blood work and check his testerone levels, and his thyroid, Not to scare you but when guys have low levels of hormones they can develope a tumor...My husband had to be put on hormone therapy (no tumor, thank god), and there is a difference, not only in the bedroom but he has more energy to do the things he loves..It was worth the fight!
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hi my wife had this same problem,would be terribly cold in her feet at night while i layed next to her sweating. her dr discovered her thyroid was way out of wack.may or may not be the problem
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Iodine is required by the thyroid gland to avoid goiter
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Removal of the bulk of the thyroid gland usually produces hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid), unless the person takes thyroid hormone replacement.
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Not without a reducing agent that will turn iodine into iodide, and then you will have to get rid of that reducing agent.\n\nI guess if KI is unavailable you'd better look for another titrable reducing agent to react with the bleach, e.g. Fe2SO4 solution.
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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.