I have had the ultraaound but not needle aspiration.

I hope you get the results you want.

Dawn
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>
> On April 8th, I will be undergoing an ultrasound
> guided?FNA (fine needle aspiration) of some thyroid
> nodules that I have.
> They will only be doing a biopsy on one of the
> nodules: 3 of the 4 are only cysts, and they are not
> interested in those: but will be biopsying the one
> that is "a complex mass inside a cyst": as that is
> more likely to be malignant, although the chances
> are still low.
>
> I have a couple of questions: how painful will it
> be, really? Apparently they will not be using any
> anesthesia: because sometimes using anesthesia can
> cause blood in the results and interfere with
> reading them. Will it compare to, say, the pain of a
> shot? Or worse?
>
> And since it is ultrasound guided: am I going to
> have a lot of the "choky feeling" that
> I had when they did the original ultrasound? I felt
> really choky both by lying on my back,
> and also from the ultrasound pressing down on my
> thyroid.
>
> Finally, when do they usually report on the results?
> Will there be some preliminary results,
> or will it take: a couple days? Or a week? Or what?
> And if I don't hear back in a couple days is this
> "good news", meaning that preliminarily it didn't
> look malignant?
>
> I am feeling very worried about this: because my
> partner is a 3 year breast cancer survivor,
> my mother is a 15 year colon cancer survivor, and
> before my DAd passed away at 86 of other causes, he
> had had the beginnings of multiple myeloma: a bone
> cancer (of course, he was a lifelong hobby
> photographer at a time when this meant having?a home
> darkroom with many chemicals,
> and was also, by profession, a chemist: so this may
> have been environmental).? No genetic link with my
> partner of course: but still it reminds me that
> these things can happen.
>
> In the meantime until I find out, will try to keep
> positive and realize that cancer is unusual and
> these nodules are very common.
>
> Laurie
>
>
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