After waiting 6 long weeks, I finally had a biopsy on Friday. It was performed by a doctor in my new endocrinologist’s office I have not seen before. He was thorough. I was on the table for 2 hours.
He started by doing another sonogram of my neck. He found a third nodule. All of them are smaller than 1 centimeter. Two of them are close together, behind the carotid artery and hard to get to surgically. One is a cyst.
While he was doing the sonogram, he mumbled something about having had Hashimoto’s can cause regrowth of thyroid tissue, but that the body also attacks that tissue so even if it is malignant, it’s typically not that bad. I have never read about Hashimoto’s causing regrowth.
The doctor did a great job deadening my neck with lidocaine. I felt no discomfort at all, a stark contrast to the first biopsy I had at a hospital 6+ years ago. He was only able to biopsy 2 of the 3 nodules. He biopsied the cystic nodule, pulled out fluid, causing it to shrink in size. He’s not too worried about that one. He had a hard time getting to the other one because of its location. He surmised that since the two that are right next to each other and look similar that they are probably the same type.
After the biopsy, he had me lay on the table for 15 minutes holding gauze to my neck and applying pressure. He told me he did not puncture an artery. Wait, what? I was kind of light-headed (I guess from having my head tilted back for so long), so was glad I wasn’t rushed out of the office. A nurse came in and helped me sit up. They left me sitting there for another 10 minutes. The doctor came back in and did another sonogram of my neck and confirmed that the cystic one did shrink. He told me that if I don’t hear anything by Wednesday to call on Thursday.
So now I wait.
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