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Nation And State ^ | 3-5-2022

[RubyR]

I wasn't diagnosed until after the removal and biopsy. The surgery wasn't much of an option b/c they thought I had thyroid cancer. Fortunately that was not the case.

I still struggled with having it removed, but it ended up working out fine :)

[Shortstop7]

Glad all worked out well for you. Doc wanted to remove mine when I was 16 but my Mom wouldn’t agree to it. Guess mine ended up working out fine too, lol.

[RubyR]

I’m glad your mom fought for you! 16 seems crazy young for that. I was quite a few years older than 16 when it all happened. My bloodwork thyroid levels were always “normal” but I must have had the Hashimoto’s for a long time b/c I had developed a goiter. It couldn’t been seen to the naked eye but it was starting to bother me. I didn’t know what it was until a nurse caught it on physical exam of my neck.

[Sans-Culotte]

I had a swelling that would have become a goiter, but no cancer. I was offered a choice of the surgery or the radioactive iodine, or drugs to try to suppress the thyroid. I had never had surgery (aside from tonsils as a kid) so I went with the iodine. I ended up 10 years later having 7 surgeries relating to thyroid eye disease. It is thought that radioactive iodine helps to trigger the eye disease, so I would have done better to have the surgery.

[RubyR]

Gosh that sounds terrible. I’m so sorry you had to go through that.