cold nodules am i ok

just diaganoised and fear has started  I was told cold nodules mean cancer  I had a needle biopsy in 1999  and it was begin but i think the nodule was hot  or inconclusive  given synthroid and sent home  I had some back pain and headaches daily  took an Mri and it shows cold nodules fron radio uptake   nervous about it all   HELP  has it happened to anyone else

[utahmomma]

Cold nodule means "suspicious" - *NOT* cancer.  Just like complex nodules or calcification *MIGHT* indicate cancer.  There is no conclusive way to tell if the nodule is malignant or not other than to have it removed and sent to pathology.  Even biopsies (core or fine needle) sometimes miss the malignant spot and can give someone a false negative.

Don't panic!  Roughly 85-95% of thyroid nodules are benign.  Even if yours isn't, there are lots of us here who have been through all of it before.

Hang in there, read all you can, find a good endo, and ask lots of questions.  Here's a couple of good websites:
http://www.endocrineweb.com/
http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/dept/thyroid/

Ask away, we're here for you.

[misled 1]

I have been going craazzy  just got the ultra sound back  with multi nodular goiter  size of nodules  2.20cm, solid nodules  another was 8 mm an 2 mm and two cyst on the middle of the  ithumuse  they call them ill-defined nodules and i have called a endo surg  is it possible i will need  surg??  

[misled 1]

i was sending this comment or question to u  thanks for the response

[utahmomma]

I responded to your other post.  When I saw my small, complex nodule on the ultrasound I just had a bad feeling about it.  I went ahead and had a lobectomy (no uptake scan, no biopsy) - I just followed my gut instinct.  It was cancerous.  Within a year three of my sisters also had their thyroids out due to cancer, the other sister had hers out and it was precancerous.  Then my daughter had hers out and it was also precancerous.  All of us followed our gut instincts even when everyone told us we were crazy because it wasn't hereditary, because the nodules were small, etc.

Follow your instinct.

*IF* you do decide to have the surgery, it is the easiest surgery my family and I have ever been through (and I had it twice).  Many others on this forum say the same thing.  Now there are those who have had a more difficult time too.  

Research all you can and ask your doctors some very informed questions.  But remember, this is YOUR health and YOUR life - YOU need to make the best decision for you.  For me and my family it was being aggressive and taking the cancer head-on.