Symptoms

You and your GP have done everything right. 

Do you have a date for the ultrasound?

I can imagine you might be getting stressed that Christmas will get in the way. It might be reassuring to know that thyroid cancers (and you are still a way off any diagnosis) grow very slowly and are highly treatable but there's no harm in pushing the GP if that will make you feel a bit better.

A friend of mine always quotes that 90% of thyroid lumps are NOT cancer - they're just annoying lumps.

That said, if yours are big enough to constrict your windpipe, you may well need to get them out, cancer or not. I remember my GP telling me "If you can't breathe and start to turn blue, call 999" - that threat of not breathing was a lot more urgent than any threat from the cancer. 

Thank you so much Barbara that really does put my mind at rest, I've literally just come off the phone to the hospital now, decoded to go direct and bypass gp and they've booked me in this Friday at 10.45am. do you know if they find anything suspicious do they take biopsy there and then or does that get rebooked? Lady on the phone didn't know but I'd rather be prepared!! Thank you so much for replying xx

That's a very good question and my not so good answer is 'probably, it depends'.

If  you're seeing a regular ultrasonographic, my guess is they won't stab you in the thyroid and take a biopsy at the same time.

If the US is being done by a consultant, they might..

But I'm too late getting back to you so you now know more than I do. Did the just US or do a biopsy as well?

Thanks Barbara x although they saw nodules they didn't take biopsies but all my neck glands are very swollen. Been referred to ENT now for camera down throat to see if that sheds any more light! Thanks so much for coming back to me xx