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Mickey

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Sluggish Thyroid?
« on: October 08, 2009, 05:48:01 pm »
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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Re: Sluggish Thyroid?
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2009, 10:49:54 am »
Mine is just fine.
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Re: Sluggish Thyroid?
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2009, 07:02:28 pm »
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
Right 3cm AN diagnosed 1/2007.  Translab resection 2/20/07 by Dr. David Kaylie and Dr. Karl Hampf at Baptist Hospital in Nashville.  R side deafness, facial nerve paralysis.  Tarsorraphy and tear duct cauterization 5/2007.  BAHA implant 11/8/07. 7-12 nerve jump 9/26/08.

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Re: Sluggish Thyroid?
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2009, 08:46:08 pm »
I had mine removed in 2006 - 11 years after my AN surgery...

K ;D
Translab 12/95@Houston Methodist(Baylor College of Medicine)for "HUGE" tumor-no size specified
25 yrs then-14 hour surgery-stroke
12/7 Graft 1/97
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SSD
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Re: Sluggish Thyroid?
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2009, 12:12:55 am »
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
9mm x 11mm Right Side AN mild Tinnitis, and 60% hearing loss
Diagnosed 02/04/2007
Nov.13th, diagnosed with 5mm Meningioma
9/24/08 diagnosed with Aneurysm
Wait and watch per ENT's advice and researching my options!!! What's next???

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Re: Sluggish Thyroid?
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2009, 05:56:20 am »
Sluggish thyroid here, up and down (along with my weight).
Diagnosed 6/2008
Right AN 2cmx8x9
Sub-Occipital at Mass General with Martusa and McKenna on 5/31/11
Right SSD, very little taste
I think I will make it!

Mickey

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Re: Sluggish Thyroid?
« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2009, 08:30:14 am »
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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Re: Sluggish Thyroid?
« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2009, 06:30:17 pm »
Looks like we have something else in common Mike.


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Right side AN removed 1/10/07 @ NYU Medical Center
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Re: Sluggish Thyroid?
« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2009, 08:12:05 am »
Ah, but do you all have deviated septums?  That was the last message where we tried to find a link.
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Re: Sluggish Thyroid?
« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2009, 05:58:53 pm »
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?
Diagnosed 6/2008
Right AN 2cmx8x9
Sub-Occipital at Mass General with Martusa and McKenna on 5/31/11
Right SSD, very little taste
I think I will make it!

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Re: Sluggish Thyroid?
« Reply #10 on: October 23, 2009, 09:07:31 am »
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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Re: Sluggish Thyroid?
« Reply #11 on: October 23, 2009, 01:04:25 pm »
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.
26 yrs old.
Diagnosed Oct. 2008 with 2cm right-sided AN
Translab surgery Feb. 9/09 at Sunnybrook in Toronto
SSD & right-sided facial paralysis, nerve still intact and fingers crossed :D

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Re: Sluggish Thyroid?
« Reply #12 on: October 23, 2009, 06:34:14 pm »
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.
Diagnosed 6/2008
Right AN 2cmx8x9
Sub-Occipital at Mass General with Martusa and McKenna on 5/31/11
Right SSD, very little taste
I think I will make it!

lori67

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Re: Sluggish Thyroid?
« Reply #13 on: October 24, 2009, 12:42:31 pm »
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
Right 3cm AN diagnosed 1/2007.  Translab resection 2/20/07 by Dr. David Kaylie and Dr. Karl Hampf at Baptist Hospital in Nashville.  R side deafness, facial nerve paralysis.  Tarsorraphy and tear duct cauterization 5/2007.  BAHA implant 11/8/07. 7-12 nerve jump 9/26/08.

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Re: Sluggish Thyroid?
« Reply #14 on: October 24, 2009, 04:58:40 pm »
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.
Diagnosed 6/2008
Right AN 2cmx8x9
Sub-Occipital at Mass General with Martusa and McKenna on 5/31/11
Right SSD, very little taste
I think I will make it!