thyroid tumor, AND pituitary tumor?!

[Guest guest]

Well today was a bit of a bummer for me. I was expecting to sail through my MRI

results, but instead, after a week of waiting I finally called on my own, and

learned that not only do I have a thyroid tumor, but also a small pituitary

tumor. I am trying hard not to freak out. Yesterday I broke out in a rash,

which I am pretty sure is fifth disease (2 of my son's friends recently came

down with it as well, and since everything comes in threes, well, you know).

Sooo, now I wait to hear from my typically traditional endocrinologist to tell

me I need surgery there too. At least now, I think I know what is going on with

my eye. Maybe I'll be one of the few that will only require a pill or some

ancient chinese wisdom and herbs.

To make myself feel better and gain some sense of control over my feeling that

my life is spinning out of control, I called Hakala labs and ordered my iodine

loading test. I hope to have the results fairly soon, before the specialists

start really putting the pressure on me to have surgery right away on my

thyroid. It's the radiation and having to take that pill every day for the rest

of my life, and how not having a thyroid is going to affect me that is scaring

me. The surgery doesn't really scare me, except that I have scar tissue from a

trache tube, when I had cleft palate surgery, which may complicate things. I

don't want to lose my voice, but I don't want to lose my eyesight or my life

prematurely either. I have a hurthle cell, and as those things go, they can be

unpredictable. Anyone else here that's been in my shoes? I could use some

encouragement I have my faith, and I know in the end everything is going to

be okay, but I may have to go through a bit of a rough spot here soon. I think

I would rather deal with the pituitary thing, see if that helps my thyroid

growth to go away or something, and wait and see. But if they do a biopsy on my

lymph nodes and find any malignancy, all bets are off. Ugh.

Jackie