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4939681 tn?1361299299

What is this "2 day thyroid scan"?

I went in for my parathyroid scan, which involved an injection, several scans by one machine and an hour long scan by another machine and then waiting an hour to get scanned by the first machine again.  Somehow, out of all of those scans, the results were inconclusive!  How can that be????  Anyway, the doctor wants me to have a "2 day scan" now.  All I was told was that I would come in on day 1 swallow a pill, leave, and come back on day two for a scan.  What do you think they are looking for?  The tech did blurt out to me that they found "something", but it was "as small as a grain of rice".  I don't think they are even supposed to say anything, but the scan was done in a hospital, so maybe they are allowed to discuss results there?
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4939681 tn?1361299299
That sounds exactly like the test that I'm going to have done!  Thank you!
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I have ?possibly? had a 2 day scan?
What I had done was a thyroid scan and uptake, I think that's the official name. I had to go in one day to take a slightly radioactive iodine pill, then go back 24 hours later so they could scan my thyroid. This was not the kind of radiation that kills your thyroid, it is just so they can 'see' it on the scan.  They wanted to measure if all, or part, of my thyroid was functioning and absorbing iodine correctly.
I was, around that time, also diagnosed with Grave's Disease.
Good luck on your next appt!
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