Ellen - Re: Thyroid not functioning correctly before thyroidectomy?

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Ellen Van Landingham wrote:

> katiekabob wrote:

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> > Our cancer has been growing for many years before being discovered,

> > but our thyroid function hasn't necessarily been affected.

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> ,

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> True, it hasn't *necessarily* been affected, but for some of us it

> has. And the only way we find out, if our pre-dx tests aren't

> sufficiently abnormal to alarm our GP's, is to contrast how we feel

> after treatment with how we felt before.

Hi, Ellen -

I agree that my statement (and all my statements, for that matter) is subject to

YMMV. The quirks of thyca and of our own individual bodies makes it hard to

make many hard and fast rules.

OTOH, it's certainly possible in some cases (maybe even many) that, after having

our meds fine tuned to a suppressive level appropriate for our individual

circumstances, we feel so much better now than we

did before, that a correct conclusion would be that we did, in fact, have

subclinical hypothyroidism (or at least abnormal thyroid function) previous to

thyca treatment. Whether or not our

less-than-perfect thyroid function was caused by the undiagnosed cancer may be

less clear.

NYC