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Originally Posted by dahlek
All I can say has been that all my thyroid issues have always, always been underplayed...whether it's simply hyer/hypo...the treatments: meds therapies and surgeries are pretty well established...tho more is starting to be done in more progressive aspects... Most is experimental at best.. The 'traditional' routes are fairly well explored. Key is diagnosis and treatment..should a thyroid or para thyroid go kaflooowy, well treatment is fairly standard.. The symptoms are apparently the same tho. Slow, insidious, sneaky and ultimately debilatating.... Much seems to overlap with vitamin deficiencies and PN. To a degree, a good deal is helped thru diet and exercise, BUT, certified/pedigreed/and proven treatments do exist to ease such issues..Only a modicum of patience is required to allow the effects of the subtle med subsitutes/modifers to kick in. The variations of thyroid replacement/suppression therapies are varied, wide and to some, controversial. My issue is Hypo, now, Hashi's...My endo has seen films from a decade ago [comment: yucky], Films now are: Really Yuckky!!!!. Hey articulate and graphic distinctions between the two? Thyroid and parathyroid issues are usually simple to treat. Chill about it. Just be sure you don't have to be forced to take a generic! That is one area every single doc I've ever had is truly emphatic and adamant about!
Go vacation! Send pics and give me a vacation from the 95 degree heat here..Anything pretty would put my mind there in an instant!  just from me! - j |
Thanks everyone! This slow,insidious quality really bums me out. It took YEARS to get a diagnosis for my thyroid issues in the first place. My own internist was sure I had "something" wrong...but the endo was even resistant to testing me and when he finally relented after I told him off...was embarrassed that my gland was so abnormal on the Technicium uptake. I left him after this test, because of his attitude. The progression of this... bothers me. I never had a nodule before, just a simple goiter, that responded to levothyroxine treatment. Around here, doctors opt for surgery rather quickly, and I suspect that will be offered to me eventually. The biopsies can be confusing and not 100% predictive, so with improved surgical techniques, they just might remove my right lobe. I couldn't get the appointment for the ultrasound yesterday ...I have to wait til Monday. My doctor returns from her trip on July 2nd. So there is no time for biopsy if required, until after my vacation. I am feeling better now, after the shock of it all. I heard many stories at work...from it is a piece of cake, a horror story about removing a huge goiter, and one story of a prior employee who was known to a colleague of mine who had thyroid cancer in her 30's. All over the place, the stories were! But I was surprised to find so many. I think thyroid disease is on the upswing (even my doctor has a nodule)...makes one wonder? My old kitty, (prior to the 3 we have now) died of thyroid cancer! How's that?
My history points to a problem...both my mother and her sister had nodules. (both died before they were explored completely).
So I am slowly getting ready for all the hooha involved. Thanks to all of you for your support! I will keep you posted, of course.
We are going to take our new laptop on vacation. There is a free hot spot near the laundromat, and we can run the computer off the car. So I can log on more easily than before at the busy library. We'll give that a try. The hookup cords for that cost $70.
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