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Hi everyone, I am new to this forum. Thank you for letting me join the group. I’ll tell you my sad story. Couple of weeks ago I’ve got a bad news from my ENT specialist, they found suspicious cancer on my thyroid nodules. When I had an ultrasound the...
Hi. I am reaching out for some support to help me through this anxious time. I went to the hospital this morning for an ultrasound after finding a lump on my thyroid. My blood tests were all fine. The sonographer told me that there were 6 nodules and...
Hello, I had my radioactive iodine treatment 1st of October, stayed in hospital three nights, isolate before treatment for too weeks and plus my iodine diet, isolate after treatment for 6 days. I was so desperate to go and have my freedom, and I am as...
Hello, so for about 2-3 years I've had nodules on my thyriod which were kept an eye on and grew very slowly. On Wednesday I had my yearly appointment and it grew enough for the needle biopsy I got the results today and its shown "unclear possible follicular...
Hi, I'm new here. I found a lump on my collarbone back in August, assumed it was nothing to worry about. Saw my GP in September, he said he was worried. I had an ultrasound, a 11mm nodule was found on my thyroid. I had 2 biopsies and a chest xray. The...
hi guys i had my first blood test to check my tsh im currently on 175mg levothyroxine my test came back as abnormal why would this be please i know one thing ive feel worse now than before i had my cancer diagnosis is this normal jo
Hi All, I have just been diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer. The mass is 5cm by 5cm, so my thyroid will be removed in the surgery too. I have a CT scan soon to see if there’s been any spread further. I am grateful to have found a forum where others...
Hi, I am hoping someone can help and provide advise, I am going for RAI treatment in September and I've been told that after 4 days of being discharged things can return back to normal although because I have 2 children that I won't be allowed to have...
I was diagnosed in 2019, had my first partial thyroidectomy in Oct 2019 but they discovered it had spread to neighbouring lymph nodes so had a total in Nov 2019. I have been on 125mg of Levo since and until beginning of this year I have had normal checkups...
Just wanted to day hi. I was diagnosed on Monday with Follicular and Papillary Thyroid cancer. I'm just letting the news sink in, and waiting to hear when my next surgery will happen (complete hemi-thyroidectomy).
