to biopsy or not to biopsy...
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Mon, 07-12-2004 - 11:26pm |
Hello all,
I was out with my mom and my sister's mother-in-law today. I guess my brother-in-law's sister had thyroid cancer. And through all our talks about all things thyroid, I'm rethinking about asking for a biopsy. In her case she had a partial thyroidectomy when she was thirteen because of nodules. Then a few years ago at a check up she had a singular large nodule and she pushed for a biopsy because she didn't feel right about it. Come to find out it was stage 2 cancer. She had the rest of the thyroid removed, and the doctors took some parathyroid glands out with it, and she's had seizures because of the drop in calcium to where her doctor was afraid she was going to die while having a seizure at the hospital because the dummies didn't listen to him when he called to tell them they were bringing her and she needed a calcium drip!
So they are definately concerned about me. I'm really not nervous about it or anything, not like I was at first when I didn't understand any of it. And by it I mean my condition. But I do wonder if it could be beneficial just because I still have swollen salvatory glands (2 years and going strong!) along with the goiter and autoimmune thyroid condition.
What do you think? Should I consider it? Should I ask for a RAI uptake test? I'm not sure where to go from here. Plus my endo wanted me to have a cat scan to check for compression, and I'm not having compression symptoms anymore, but I'll ask my MD about that. I was also thinking about maybe seeing another endo b/c my first impression was that mine didn't treat me seriously, but then the more I've researched she was right, I just didn't think so at the time.
I'm just curious. Thanks ladies, Lisa