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[NickNack]

Thank you @violann.  Do you still have your thyroid?  If so, I'm curious why they didn't remove it.

[violann]

Unfortunately NickNack, I was being cared for by "the best thyroid specialist in town" who was a horrible doctor and a nasty person.

He never explained anything to me, did inappropriate and unnecessary exams, and used radioactive iodine maybe not enough or too much, and I never found out why.

I still have what my current, compassionate, competent doctor calls "a teeny partial gland" on one side of my throat and a complete gland on the other.

I take Armour and do fine with it, but it does have to be adjusted from time to time.

I hope by now you have the information that you need.

[NickNack]

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@violann wrote:

Unfortunately NickNack, I was being cared for by "the best thyroid specialist in town" who was a horrible doctor and a nasty person.

He never explained anything to me, did inappropriate and unnecessary exams, and used radioactive iodine maybe not enough or too much, and I never found out why.

I still have what my current, compassionate, competent doctor calls "a teeny partial gland" on one side of my throat and a complete gland on the other.

I take Armour and do fine with it, but it does have to be adjusted from time to time.

I hope by now you have the information that you need.

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I'm sorry you had a doctor you didn't like @violann.  It's terrible when things aren't explained thoroughly to you, especially if you don't like or trust your doctor.

I had my ultrasound today, and the person who did it wouldn't tell me anything.  I know they're not supposed to, but I was hoping she would anyway.  She said it could be a week before I hear from my doctor.  I'm hoping I'll hear by Friday though.

[violann]

Please let us know...........

[dsky]

Had most of my thyroid removed when I was 39, and just within the last  ( age 54, now 55) year my doctor noticed something when I swallowed, except this time it was much higher, like my mid neck, he said it was scar tissue, then when I went 6 months later to another dr in the practice he said it was a gland that can get enlarged due to dental issues, which I did have, none of them said to get imaging.  I look at it everyday and it has stayed the same size.

[Vivian]

Please keep us apprised of your progress. I had thyroid cancer in 2008, after having had countless sinus CT scans and two sinus surgeries. I see my ENT surgeon next month for a check-up and hope there will be no surprises uncovered.

[NickNack]

I just wanted to post an update.  I heard from my doctor, and my nodules are nothing suspicious.  I was relieved!

[dsky]

That's great Nicknack, just curious where are yours and how did they check them.  You don't have any of your thyroid left?

[NickNack]

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@dsky wrote:

That's great Nicknack, just curious where are yours and how did they check them.  You don't have any of your thyroid left?

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@dsky    I had my thyroid removed in 2005.  At the time, I thought he removed the nodule only.  Then years later I think another doctor told me that he removed the whole thyroid.  This time they did a thyroid ultrasound, and told me there was a little bit of my thyroid left.  That's where the nodules were.  I feel ridiculous not remembering what the surgeon originally told me.  I usually write everything down but hadn't made notes on this.