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 […]
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 […]
I’ve had a lot of questions about thyroid testing lately. So I decided it was time for a blog post to address these questions. If your doctor orders a TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) test only and proclaims you fine, you need to consider the continuation of your relationship. TSH is a pituitary hormone. It measures how much hormone is being sent out to “stimulate” your thyroid into making more thyroid hormones. This hormone tells you […]
