Thy3

I heard today they have put me on the lost to see the surgeon which will remove. They say he can be 3 months but she is hoping I will hear within the month. It's all so vague.

I know it's hard, but in a lot of ways, it's a good thing. The time to worry is when you are a priority. I think some forms of cancer need to be treated quickly. Therefore they want to find out as son as possible if somebody has it. That is not true of thyroid cancer. Even if you have it (and you probably don't), it is unlikely to cause you any major problems any time soon.

I know it's easy to say when I have had the operation.

It might help to think about what it is you are most worried about. For me, one of my fears was that they might have difficulty getting the medication right. I have a long commute to work and have to get up at 6:30 in the mornings, so lack of energy would be a big problem. Another worry I had was the operation not removing it all and there being persistence or reccurrance. Neither of these things happened (well, I guess recurrance still could, but the odds are against it). What would worry you most about thyroid cancer? Is it just the name cancer? That gave me an awful fright when the doctor said "we found malignancies," but thyroid cancer isn't really very like what you imagine for cancer.

Even if it is cancer, it's almost certainly not going to prevent you from seeing your baby grow up. The most common form of thyroid cancer has a survival rate of...I think it's over 99% in younger people. And it's probably not cancer. So the chances are even lower. That really isn't something you need to worry about. Even if it is cancer, it really isn't life threatening. 

You don't sound crazy at all. It's easy for me to look back after two years and think "hey, it wasn't that big a deal after all." At the time, I was pretty freaked out. I was thinking "what if I am that one in 50 or 100 fpr whom it does spread?" I spent the weeks I was waiting for results chanting to myself, "thyroid nodules are common, thyroid cancer is rare." And of course, having a child makes it even more worrying, because you are thinking of the child as well as yourself.

But the odds are very high that you either don't have cancer at all (the most likely) or if you do, that removing your thyroid will cure it completely and after that, you'll just need to be monitored every year to be sure it doesn't reoccur.

Hi ya. 

That's great , you know what your aiming for now. I'm still waiting to get an appointment with the surgeon. 

I really hope so for you please keep me posted

Hey, how are you? My lump is out and I should hear results next week. I'm a bit scared as the surgeon said it was sticky which could be invasive cancer but he also said thyroiditis can make it sticky and they did mention thyroiditis in the biopsy so keeping everything crossed. The op wasn't as bad as I thought it would be