ANA Discussion Forum
Watch and Wait => For those in the 'watch and wait' status => Topic started by: Mickey on October 08, 2009, 05:48:01 pm
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Does anyone have a sluggish thyroid? My blood work came in with this slightly recently. Just wondering on any correlation. Mickey
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Mine is just fine.
Sharon
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Mine doesn't work at all, but that's due to the radioactive iodine treatment I had to treat it when it was overactive. I don't think my thyroid issues directly led to my AN, but I believe the radioactive iodine had a lot to do with it.
Lori
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I had mine removed in 2006 - 11 years after my AN surgery...
K ;D
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I had thyroid problems years and years ago. Mine was so off that I had to drink this awful tasting stuff to help give me an appetite, because I had none! Guess my thyroid is ok now because my appetite is too good! Hmmmmmm I wonder if there is any connection to my AN??? Interesting thought???
Jackie
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Sluggish thyroid here, up and down (along with my weight).
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Well anyhow I`ve been prescribed the lowest form of synthroid every other day and a blood recheck in 6 weeks. Lets see what happens? Something else I found out about out of the clear blue. , Best wishes , Mickey
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Looks like we have something else in common Mike.
Your friend,
Joe-
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Ah, but do you all have deviated septums? That was the last message where we tried to find a link.
Sharon
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I have been listening to CD's from the Symposium, one was risks for ANs and I was quite blown away. There is a thread here about deviated septums and when I counted 20 out of 22 had a deviated septum. Well the way you find out that you broke your nose is by x-ray, radiation exposure. This speaker was saying children that get freq xrays when a child especially about the head have a higher risk of getting a cancer or tumor and one of the places is the thyroid. When I was young I broke my nose so much and had 3 surgeries, lots of xrays..... and I have a crappy thryroid and an Acoustic Neuroma....don't you think this weird?
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OK, how did you break your nose 3 times? I know young boys tend to get in a lot of fights, and some young girls do too (My sister and I fought all the time and she broke my nose)--but three times?? Wow! I'm impressed. And curious.
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I was diagnosed hypothyroid at 12 (14 yrs ago) and have taken a low dosage of synthroid .05 mg since. My dosage has never changed and I have never even really thought about it. My mom and sister are also both hypothyroid. When my mom was a little girl she had some procedure done, this was back in the early 60's I guess. Something w/ radioactivity, she talked about it once and wondered if it caused her thyroid problems. I can't for the life of me remember what specifically it was tho.
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My mom also had some radiation for a thryroid when I was kid, she was suppose to stay quiet and away from us, she died about 8 years later from Cancer at age 44.
I broke my nose because I lived in a project outside Boston, we played hard, I was a Tom boy, the nose was broke more than 3 times, I had 3 surgeries.
Interesting these commonalities we all seem to have.
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Sounds like they had the radioactive iodine treatment that I had. I had mine about 17 years ago and I had to send my daughter to stay with Grandma for about a week. I don't even know if they still do that anymore - I haven't heard of it.
Lori
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That sounds right Lori, there has to be something we are doing to ourselves ..........I guess a hundred years ago people died at 40 and through all this stuff we do now we live longer only to find out that we now end up getting weirder things.
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I have an underactive thryoid. Had it since age 15. I'm 37. I take .175 mg of synthroid.
My mother and sister also have an underactive thyroid but they don't have a hemangioma like me.
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Although I don't have a sluggish thyroid, I do have thyroid nodules. Had them aspirated about 5 or 6 years ago and they grew back. I had a young endocrinoligist say, "don't worry, if you need surgery it only would affect you if you're a soprano! Ha-ha giggle."
I then informed her that indeed I was a soprano and, though not dependant on this for my livelihood, enjoyed my singing very much.
Sharon
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Hello, I will join the Acoustic Neuroma and Thyroid problem club too! I do not have a deviated septum though, but I do have an extra tooth that grows upwards into my right nostril! Beat that!
I actually had thyroid cancer 5 years ago and had surgery plus the radioactive iodine treatment that so many of you have talked about. This is an odd connection, but thyroid problems are very very common in the general population so wouldn't be so surprising to find a bunch of us with this problem. But it is curious. Is there any kind of registry for these medical issues that occur along with AN's?
Suz
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Hi there,
Mine is o.k. so far. Probably not related to AN issues.
Vivian
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Suz, thanks for making me laugh. No, I can't beat that!
You're a hoot.
Sharon
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I am late to respond but the tooth growing up to the nose is pretty unusual...........wondering if you had to have it removed?