Chest pain is not common - may be heartburn. But must be concerned about the amount of residual neck thyroid tissue (and possibly lymph nodes) as well as the less likely possibility of spread to the chest area -- will be important to look at the whole body scan and any abnormality there would need CT scan / Ultrasound evaluation. We expect to see uptake in the thyroid bed - but otherwise the neck should not have significant uptake.
I think he is trying to understand why your radiation was still high after 5 days (captation-means tyroid tissue somewhere), so two possibilities:
1 -The possibility of having the presence of thyroid tissue in your lungs (which he think it is less likely ,but always a possibility ( it is rare)
2 - More likely he thinks the radiation is there because of the presence of residual thyroid tissue in your neck (lymph nodes ), but it depends on the amount.
But because of the rare possibility to spread, he recomends a whole body scan. He says what doctors should expect in a normal exam (just uptake in the thyroid bed)
And because chest pain is not common, possibly he thinks it is Heartburn, not related with the treatment (usually associated with regurgitation of gastric acid).
Hope I didn't get you confused, but I think I got what he's trying to say
My comment was for the other forum , correct me if I am wrong
thankyou Dr,
i'm a bit confused as my hypo brain can't comprehend much at the moment,
the pain definately was not heartburn, felt more like the pain associated with a chest infection and lasted about 2 days.
am awaiting the result of WBS but will not get them untill i see my oncologist in 3 weeks time.
i probably wouldn't be concerned about the chest pain if they hadn't called me back in after my WBS to take another image of the chest area.
thankyou anyway.