u/Impossible_Double201

I just bought a barbara streisand rose and was hoping to see any real life pictures of them in bloom! Its supposed to be purple and im impatiently waiting. Thank you!

Does anyone have expierence with fertility after having RAI? My husband and I are concerned about it but have been told that unless high cumulative doses it "should" be fine. This has been a hard journey so far. I posted before , We dont have children yet so we are concerned. We dont know his dosage yet bc that won't be determined until he starts the LID and gets a scan done. The endo put in his notes 30 to 100mci. Im not sure if that can change after the scan shows how much uptake there is. Im hoping anyone else has input.

Edited to add: yes we are aware no conception for 6 months. Im talking about how was fertility after the 6 months, since it can decline

Hi Everyone,

My husband got diagnosed with PTC contained in the thyroid, but in 15 positive lymph nodes this year. He has now undergone TT, and is about to undergo RAI. This has by far been one of the worst years of our life. This year we had put quite a few things on hold, medications, a trip we were planning, and after alot of work stress, to begin trying to get pregnant. All of that was taken away when we got this diagnoses, to say it was devastating is an understatement. If we were younger I would not be near as worried, or adding this stress to it bc whats 6 more months? But we are about to be 36, and have already waited a long time, which now I am completely kicking myself for, Ive been so hard on myself over this. Ive already had comments said to me by family members and coworkers by waiting too long, quite honestly the reason I have is because of alot of childhood trauma, like alot of others have experienced, but it has really effected my mental health, that I worked on for years to get to a good spot, and wanting to feel ready, for something I think of as a big responsibility, Well I had finally gotten there and now, this. Weve went thru all the emotions, thankful its "just TC" :/ , scared to death, panic attacks, angry, sick over everything, meanwhile still working and not really having many people to talk to about this, alot of people in our life seem to think its just fine now that the surgeries over. We dont know the dose yet, its coming up in a few weeks. The endo wrote 30-100 mci, but im sure that can change depending on the scan results. We did talk to endo about sperm banking and he'll be doing that this week, thankfully it should be covered bc its cancer related, but would we have to use IVF if it came to that? we dont have the money for that really, we have about several thousand in medical bills weve paid so far, but very thankful we've been able to. Im just worried about the feritlity effects to him ongoing after 6 months when your cleared to concieve. Our endo didnt bring up any of this, we did have to ask all the fertility questions. Im just scared and feel like we already have age not working in our favor and then this ontop of it, im not sure if the life we thought wed have will ever be possible. Has anyone else been in this situation? We feel alone, and Ive been crying so much, I dont want to keep burdening him with this when hes going thru enough. this whole thing has been so incredibly hard, again had it happened at another time I dont think we'd be struggling as much, this is just an added layer. Im hoping for support from others who know what its like or any other stories of how you made it thru to the other side!

Thanks everyone. Your all in my thoughts and prayers.