I don't remember having to go on a low iodine diet before having the uptake scan done. I only did the low iodine before the RAI...
Yeah, I still ate bread and peanut butter and jelly. I can't tell you what to do, I'm not a doctor or your doctor. I would say just follow as close as possible. A few weeks without bread won't kill ya. You can still eat lots of fruits and veggies. I literally lived on carrots, lol. Try googling some websites, that helped me a lot.
http://www.thyca.org/rai.htm
http://www.thyroidcommunity.com/patient/resources/tc_eng_pt_res_lowiodine.asp
Mellowscout...good luck
I am just having an uptake scan done. I am not trying to starve myself, but the diet I was shown does not explain good enough as to what I can eat. It says no dairy...so on but uet it says you can have butter/margarine and bread...but at the same time all the ingrediants in the 2 have what I am told to stay away from. I am so confused, did you still eat those things at all?
Hello,
What test are you having done exactly, the uptake scan? Or are you about to have RAI?
The key here is LOW iodine, not NO iodine. Before I did RAI, I was going mental trying to cut out every darn thing with iodine. I was starving too! It doesn't say to eliminate it 100% completely...just to try really hard not to eat it { like seafood is a definite no-no }. You still have to have nutrients...just be smart and don't start eating all the foods that have iodine in it now just because you can't =) Good luck!
Mellowscout...have a good day.
Thank You, I am so hungry...lol I am looking for some butter/marg and some bread I can eat. I get confused by what the labels read! GRRRR
Hi,
I had low iodine diet back in August. I started before I went to the specialist. I was on strict low iodine diest for 3 weeks because the schedule. the last week was very hard. I did not use any oil, flour, rice, seafood,..... I only ate boiled vegetable with plain salt and fruits. I was determined to be good for 3 weeks to make sure the thyroid cells had no iodine. It was not easy. My doctor gave another list and told me that if I folloowed the list, I would be starving. he was so right. I dreamed about cookies and rice and soup every hour. But, he said definitely stayed away from seafood and salted food and iodine salt.
Vegetable and fuirt juice with carrots and bananas is good. Unsalted nuts from Whole food or Trader Joe are good. Good luck and hope you have a successful treatment.
Vivi