Chelsey

Sorry you had to join our little club. My advice is to insist on getting a TSH blood test of your thyroid BEFORE any radiation. Without a baseline of your TSH level before radiation, you will find it very difficult if not impossible to get any doctor to take seriously the long term complication of radiation damage to your thyroid. It may not happen, but if it does, you only need to take one little pill. I have had to fight for two years before I finally found an endocronologist to help me and that is only because I dug up a forgotten TSH blood test done a month before radiation. I know you are scared, and there are lots of things to do, but this is an easy request since the doctors will be doing lots of blood tests anyway.
charm