As I mentioned in the last blog post, I didn’t understand what I was dealing with when I was told I had a nodule on my thyroid. If I had it to do over again, I would do things very differently. I don’t regret my decision anymore as God has given me a large audience of people to help over the years who were struggling to make sense of what it all meant for them […]
It’s almost 24 years since I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. I was in my early 30’s and had just given birth to my first child. For those who don’t know my story, a nodule was found on my thyroid at a postpartum checkup and I was then sent for an ultrasound, RAI scan, and fine needle aspiration. My results showed abnormal follicular cells but not cancer. I was advised to remove 50% of my […]
**Update** It’s come to my attention there there are some using this post to browbeat some individuals who are successfully taking high doses. Stop it! There are still more using this to claim that I’m saying small doses are good. That’s not what I’m saying either. My point is that people have been coming to the idea of supplementing believing they had to get to 100 mgs quickly for it to work. The sweet spot […]
It’s hard to believe that 20 years of my life have passed by since I was rolled into the operating room to have 1/2 of my thyroid removed “just to be sure”. It was March 1, 2000 when I allowed the medical community to convince me that I would be better off without my thyroid gland because they couldn’t make a diagnosis and the test results showed that there were abnormal follicular cells. I had […]
