I hope you get good news. 
 
I had to have my thyroid removed and take Levothroxine 125 mcg daily.  My
thyroid does not function.  One thing that has happened for me since I started
the hormone is that my cycles are finally normal.  I had thyroid cancer which
was found accidently, even having a thryoid isse was found out accidently.  I
went in one day to get a prescription and my doctor saw my pulse was high.  He
did an ekg and it was normal.  He said it was probably hyperthyroidism.  He had
blood work done and the next day sure enough that was it.  I decided on surgery
after talking to the surgeon and they even said at some point I would have to be
on thyroid hormone.  So I decided on surgery, they found the cancer spots then
during the 1st surgery.
 
Good luck with your appointment
 
Dawn


--- On Sat, 12/6/08, webpoet1@... <webpoet1@...> wrote:

From: webpoet1@... <webpoet1@...>
Subject: [ThyroidDisease] Appointment with endocrinologist is the 17th
To: ThyroidDisease2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008, 9:27 AM






My appointment with the endocrinologist is the 17th.

There I will learn what the next step is that she recommends regarding my
thyroid nodules.
On february 2, 2008, I broke my ankle. In the course of their x-raying my ankle,
and neck/spine (to make sure it was okay: it was),
they found 4 thyroid nodules: one was dominant. The 3 others are just cystic,
but the dominant one had cystic and solid components.
I had thyroid bloodwork which was normal. I had an RAIU scan which showed that
at least the dominant nodule (not sure about the others)
was non-functioning (i.e. "cold"). I had a needle biopsy which showed benign
cells: but where there were 'scant cells" in the sample: which means
it appears to be benign, but not quite sure they got a big enough sample to be
totally sure.
I am hoping that the endocrinologist will recommend: redoing the needle biopsy:
I am hoping she will NOT recommend: that I get my thyroid out:
I kind of think that because the biopsy was indicative of a benign nodule: that
removing my thyroid will not be the next step.
One good thing is that: it's almost a year, and the nodules are the same size:
which means that whatever it is it isn't growing rapidly which rules
out a bad form of thyroid cancer.

I'll let you know how things go.
I get my vacation time back January 1st (I lost it all when I took 3 weeks from
work when I had my broken ankle: trips for the above tests had to be taken
by working on a weekend or staying late to make up): so there will be more
flexibility/ freedom to take medical tests without having to make up the time,
which will make me feel more relaxed.

right now I am relieved that the biopsy indicates it is probably benign: but
would like to find out for sure: but not at the cost of having to take
Synthroid:
so hopefully she will have ideas about that.

Laurie

PS any way to get rid of the spam on this list?

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