Maybe I can handle this w/o anesthesia, if you guys all made it OK. I just keep flaring up with the Lupuslike symptoms and pain, because every 3 or so weeks something else comes up and the stress really ramps everything up...

Why do they do more than one aspiration?

My friend's teenager had something similar wrong with her thyroid and they destroyed the gland with iodine, I want to say. She has to take Synthroid every day for the rest of her life. I am not sure what that is about, but anyway, that is what they did...

Cathie