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I've noticed my neck is swollen where the thyroid is. I've had thyroid problems in the past after I gave birth to my first. My daughter is 10 years old now born in April 2006 and I had another baby, boy, in May 2016. He passed away shortly after he was born. I haven't noticed thyroid problems until recently. I haven't had problems swallowing, but my thyroid where the bumps are (both sides) feel hard and hurts a bit touching or moving my head a certain way. My daughter keeps telling me she knows someone who had the same problem, who got cancer. Not any news to me -- I had Clervical Cancerdoctors thought. They probably diagnosed me wrong, or it disappeared? I have never had this before, I'm scared. I need help the best you can.
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linda187 UhOhBro
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I would not worry about it being cancer at this point. However, untreated thyroid disease can cause other life-threatening conditions if you don't take action to have it diagnosed and treated. You could have thyroid nodules which are often benign but still cause problems in thyroid functioning. See your doctor as soon as possible to get a diagnosis.
madge1979 UhOhBro
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What's keeping you ... uhohbro ... get to the doctors ...
I'm so very sorry to hear about your little son 💙
It's crucial you move on this quickly ... but cancer is a kind of long shot ! So don't believe that at the moment for heavens sake ... you can deal
with this !
Go to the doctor and ask firmly for thyroid blood tests .., looking also for antibodies to show what type of thyroid disease it might be ... then come back on here with all the figures ... which will be read by the many people who have or have had this problem too ... they will put your mind at ease and point you in the right direction Luvvie ... your poor wee girl must be very worried about you too .. so make her feel better by going to dr quickly
Take care Luvvie
Mx🌹
JayValle UhOhBro
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Hi
I'm so sorry to hear about your son, and now your thryoid issues.
I've had nodules since 2006 (maybe longer but that's when I was diagnosed). I have large ones on either side of my neck which you can feel and when I stretch my neck you can kind of see them if you know what to look for.
I was diagnosed hypothyroid at that time. My TSH was high - not sure about the T's. The first thing is to get an Ultrasound of the thyroid. That will show how many and measure the size. Many times people have multiple nodules. I have 2 large and about 4 small at last count.
Then you have a fine needle aspiration to test the cells for cancer. They are "rarely" cancer so please don't worry. I know it's not easy. When I was first diagnosed I was panic-stricken. But my biopsy came back normal so my ENT put me on Armour Thyroid for "suppression" to try and shrink them. They shrank a bit but I also needed the armour for underactive thryoid.
Fast forward 2015. My TSH was so low I stopped Armour Thyroid at PCP's order. My TSH kept dropping and now I'm "hyper" thyroid and taking Methimazole anti-thyroid med.
I've had numerous biopsies which always come back normal and an ultrasound EVERY year. It's a pain but you need to keep on top of nodules. I believe as we age they can turn "hot", which one of mine did. It's called autonomous nodule, which means it disperses hormones separately from the thyroid which means you can turn from hypo or even normal to hyper.
I had an uptake in January which showed my thyroid to be normal but this nodule was very overactive, taking up most of the iodine. So now it's a waiting game to see if I need to have it surgically removed or destroy my entire thyroid with radioiodine, which I don't want to do.
I hope I'm not scaring you but yes, you need to investigate with Ultrasound, Biopsy of nodules, and Thyroid blood tests because the nodules indicate your thyroid is not working properly and needs to be treated for whatever is causing them.
Mine don't bother me anymore actually, other than the hyper aspect, which I hope can be controlled.
Please see a good Endo who will do a thorough evaluation and testing and I'm sure you'll be fine.
Best of luck. xo
Jaye
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