I had recently posted that a few years ago a nodule was discovered on my thyroid. I had a test done at the time that found the thyroid to be hot (hyper thyroid), I was then diagnosed with graves disease. Since this time (approximately 6 years ago) aside from a couple of thyroid level labs, nothing more had been done. However, I recently became pregnant (Oct) and then had a miscarriage, I had lost about 18 lbs and this promted a series of new thyroid tests, which in the end has led to me being referrred to an endocrinologist, I was given a copy of my thyroid ultrasound, labs and uptake. The results of my tsh, free t3, and CBC, all came back with abnormal results. And the most recent thyroid ultrasound has shown a significant in crease in size of the nodule,
My endo has scheduled me for a biopsy on the 18th of January since there is solid mass to the nodule that does appear to have blood flow to it, my question is this. In my CBC there is an HF next to my monocytes result, the HF stands for H=High, F= footnotes, I was wondering IF it IS thyroid cancer can that make the monocytes high or is there something different to be concerned with? I do know that as a rule monocytes are the bodies defense for fighting off bacterial infections, but that in SOME instances it can also be positive when certain cancers are presnt.