GKL
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It took a little over 3 weeks to find out from when my primary doctor first wanted me to get an appointment with a specialist to have a biopsy just to be sure.
I did not want to concern anyone until I knew if it was benign or not, if it was not benign I would have been asking for your prayers as I believe God honors faith.
I had several small nodules on my Thyroid and one of them was slightly larger and vascular with calcifications, thankfully it turned out to be benign !
He said they will want to check the nodules again by ultrasound later next year just to be sure they are not growing, he said a nodule tested and shown to be benign will stay benign and not turn cancerous, but that even benign nodules can sometimes grow large enough to be a problem simply from their size and need to be removed, but he said it is fairly uncommon for them to grow.
Turns out Thyroid nodules are fairly common with about 50% of people getting them.
My nodules were too small for the doctor to even feel them, if it wasn't for an ultrasound I had for something else we would have never known they were even there.
Roughly about 2 months ago my wife decided for us to get one of those "Life Line Screenings" https://www.lifelinescreening.com/ to check our circulatory system to make sure there was no problem with plaque buildup.
This was about a few weeks before my routine 6 month checkup with my primary doctor, I had a very slight plaque buildup but nothing to be overly concerned about, when my doctor saw the results she wanted to have an ultrasound done just on my neck area just to have a "baseline" to go by to make sure the plaque did not get any worse later on.
When the technician was finishing up the neck ultrasound it got close enough to my Thyroid that she noticed the nodules and later my doctor ordered another ultrasound just for the Thyroid, when my primary doctor saw that one nodule was slightly larger and vascular with calcifications she sent me to a Thyroid specialist for the biopsy which thankfully turned out to be benign !
I wanted to explain all that to caution you all to be aware of how common Thyroid nodules are and to consider asking the technician to take a quick look at your Thyroid even if you are having an ultrasound for something else.
From what I learned having multiple nodules is actually better in a way as the doctor said cancerous nodules tend to be by themselves as the only nodule.
While the doctor told me before my biopsy there was only about a 1 out of 10 chance of it being cancerous it was still a relief to actually hear it was indeed benign. He did say even those people who do have a cancerous nodule there is a 98% success rate of people surviving at least well over 10 years.
When your doctor feels your neck they are checking for enlarged Thyroid nodules, but if they are still too small they can't be felt and can only detected with an ultrasound.
I did not want to concern anyone until I knew if it was benign or not, if it was not benign I would have been asking for your prayers as I believe God honors faith.
I had several small nodules on my Thyroid and one of them was slightly larger and vascular with calcifications, thankfully it turned out to be benign !
He said they will want to check the nodules again by ultrasound later next year just to be sure they are not growing, he said a nodule tested and shown to be benign will stay benign and not turn cancerous, but that even benign nodules can sometimes grow large enough to be a problem simply from their size and need to be removed, but he said it is fairly uncommon for them to grow.
Turns out Thyroid nodules are fairly common with about 50% of people getting them.
My nodules were too small for the doctor to even feel them, if it wasn't for an ultrasound I had for something else we would have never known they were even there.
Roughly about 2 months ago my wife decided for us to get one of those "Life Line Screenings" https://www.lifelinescreening.com/ to check our circulatory system to make sure there was no problem with plaque buildup.
This was about a few weeks before my routine 6 month checkup with my primary doctor, I had a very slight plaque buildup but nothing to be overly concerned about, when my doctor saw the results she wanted to have an ultrasound done just on my neck area just to have a "baseline" to go by to make sure the plaque did not get any worse later on.
When the technician was finishing up the neck ultrasound it got close enough to my Thyroid that she noticed the nodules and later my doctor ordered another ultrasound just for the Thyroid, when my primary doctor saw that one nodule was slightly larger and vascular with calcifications she sent me to a Thyroid specialist for the biopsy which thankfully turned out to be benign !
I wanted to explain all that to caution you all to be aware of how common Thyroid nodules are and to consider asking the technician to take a quick look at your Thyroid even if you are having an ultrasound for something else.
From what I learned having multiple nodules is actually better in a way as the doctor said cancerous nodules tend to be by themselves as the only nodule.
While the doctor told me before my biopsy there was only about a 1 out of 10 chance of it being cancerous it was still a relief to actually hear it was indeed benign. He did say even those people who do have a cancerous nodule there is a 98% success rate of people surviving at least well over 10 years.
When your doctor feels your neck they are checking for enlarged Thyroid nodules, but if they are still too small they can't be felt and can only detected with an ultrasound.