Hi Diane,

I had two thyroid surgeries within 3 weeks of each other, the first
was to remove a tumor on an overactive parathyroid, the second was to
remove the thyroid after the lab detected papilliary cancer in an
adjacent lymph node.

I (fortunatley for me) only had to go through RAI once. I am so
sorry to hear you have to go through the whole thing again.

I noticed you posted your message at the beginning of April. How are
things going now?

Regards

Deborah Ford


--- In ThyroidDisease2@yahoogroups.com, "dianekaloper"
<dianekaloper@m...> wrote:
> I had my thyroidectomy in May 04, two months later a lump appeared
> on the right side of my neck I had a second surgery to have this
> removed, when the doctor went in he could not find anything. I had
> a pet scan that shows residual thyroid tissue. Has anyone had more
> than two or three surgeries to get all the thyroid tissue? Is this
> typical? I don't look forward to I 131 again.
> Diane