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Thyroid surgery soon

CarolinaGirl77
  • By CarolinaGirl77 · New reply yesterday at 8:06 pm
  • Journal · 52 replies
  • Two and a half days until thyroid surgery. Two weeks ago, April 29th, I was sitting in the doctors office with day to day stuff on my mind, never expecting life would change when the doctor walked into ...

Allergic to All Thyroid Meds After Levoxyl Recall

MattinNH
  • By MattinNH · New reply yesterday at 7:53 pm
  • Discussion in Long-term survivors · 57 replies
  • Hi, I am a thyroid cancer survivor (Hurthle Cell). I had a total thyroidectomy in 2002 and have been dependent on thyroid hormone replacement meds since. I have taken Levoxyl since the surgery. After ...

Questions About Lung Nodule?

Andy123
  • By Andy123 · New reply yesterday at 7:44 pm
  • Discussion in Papillary and follicular thyroid cancer (differentiated) · 9 replies
  • Hi all, thanks for reading my 1st post! I am very worried about some results my wife got this week - she has recently had further CT investigation that has revealed a solitary 5mm lung nodule. To give ...

Anyone happy on T4 alone? What does T3 do?

lisacarole
  • By lisacarole · New reply yesterday at 7:38 pm
  • Discussion in Long-term survivors · 2 replies
  • Is anyone happy on T4 alone-no weight gain, not depressed, not sweating/not freezing, no pain issues etc? What are your levels and what med are you taking? I've been on Levoxyl for 19 years, gained 80 ...

New ~

rosie_van
  • By rosie_van · New reply yesterday at 7:34 pm
  • Discussion in Papillary and follicular thyroid cancer (differentiated) · 7 replies
  • Hello everyone ~ Thank you for the welcome to the group ~ I am glad that I found this group as I feel as I am going nuts dealing with this and researching things! :) I had my complete thyroid removed ...

Starting LID today--anyone else?

Zimmer12
  • By Zimmer12 · New reply yesterday at 7:22 pm
  • Discussion in Low iodine diet · 133 replies
  • Getting ready for my six month WBS and possibly a second round of treatment. Anyone want to go through LID together for the next two weeks or have part overlapping? Cheers, Jan ...

Switch to synthroid from levoxyl problems ?

caseykrz
  • By caseykrz · New reply yesterday at 6:45 pm
  • Discussion in Papillary and follicular thyroid cancer (differentiated) · 6 replies
  • Anyone else having a problem with the switch to synthroid ? I made the switch on April 28th ,and by may 10th I was getting tired and worn down, by May 14th I was getting lightheaded and body aches like ...

Thyroid Cancer has aged me:-(

JuJu55
  • By JuJu55 · New reply yesterday at 5:33 pm
  • Journal · 9 replies
  • This journey that we call THYROID CANCER has definitely weakened my body and soul since diagnosed 10 months ago. I have Hurthle cell am 50 years old, tumor was 4.8 cm. Tg levels after surgery were 46 ...

Raspy Voice

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CherryW
  • By CherryW · New reply yesterday at 4:32 pm
  • Journal · 7 replies
  • It was developed by physicians from the University of California Los Angeles and University of Southern California, with ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association, Inc. (www.thyca.org) cooperating ...

I had a TT 2 weeks ago-since last night I cannot hear out of my right ear

Dani64
  • By Dani64 · New reply yesterday at 2:35 pm
  • Discussion in Papillary and follicular thyroid cancer (differentiated) · 2 replies
  • After my TT 2 weeks ago I have just received the results saying I have Thyroid cancer. I am still in very early days and see my Endo on June 17th to learn which treatment is best (control with meds or ...

There are a ton of thyroid cancer survivor's on Facebook

gemgirlqt
  • By gemgirlqt · New reply yesterday at 2:22 pm
  • Discussion in Papillary and follicular thyroid cancer (differentiated) · 2 replies
  • Hello. I just wanted to let everyone know that if you are on Facebook you can connect with many thyroid cancer survivor groups as well. Here are a few of them if you are interested in looking them up ...

Help-first time being hyperthyroid?

zhyone
  • By zhyone · New reply yesterday at 2:07 pm
  • Discussion in Papillary and follicular thyroid cancer (differentiated) · 5 replies
  • So it has been almost three years with papillary thyroid cancer and I experienced being hypo couple times, especially for the low iodine diet and RAI. But this time, I think I have been getting the symptoms ...

Problem with parathyroids - 8 years after TT!

Meegie
  • By Meegie · Posted yesterday at 1:13 pm
  • Discussion in Long-term survivors · 0 replies
  • Hi, everybody. This is my first post on this board, although I've been visiting it for about a week. I had papillary thyroid cancer 8 years ago, when I was 25. I had a TT and modified radical neck dissection ...

A New Worry

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Encouragement

gemgirlqt
  • By gemgirlqt · New reply yesterday at 11:22 am
  • Discussion in Papillary and follicular thyroid cancer (differentiated) · 12 replies
  • Hi. Does anyone have any success stories that they can share about having thyroid cancer recurrence and not taking up RAI any longer. I would like to hear something encouraging. Thanks so much ...

Getting nervous

Drmommyof2
  • By Drmommyof2 · New reply yesterday at 9:36 am
  • Discussion in Papillary and follicular thyroid cancer (differentiated) · 3 replies
  • I don't know why, well maybe I do, but I am getting nervous about my upcoming testing. My Endo wants me to have an US of my neck next month. I had a right and central neck dissection 2/4/13 and RAI 3/18/13 ...

Neck Exercises Post TT?

New-one

May 2013 update

nodakmom
  • By nodakmom · New reply yesterday at 9:06 am
  • Journal · 2 replies
  • Thought I should check in for recording sake. Saw my endo on May 1st. My TSH remains suppressed at .02. My FT4 was just above normal at 1.78 (I think, going on memory here). She was happy with how I'm ...

a growth question

Wil2672
  • By Wil2672 · New reply yesterday at 7:23 am
  • Discussion in Papillary and follicular thyroid cancer (differentiated) · 9 replies
  • OK.....so I was told papillary cancer grows slow. How slow? Does anyone have a real world example? For instance say you have a node that's 0.5cm. If untreated, how big will it be in a year ...

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