got a date!

[helsurf]

saw the surgeon yesterday and got a date my TT it's 3rd of june so gotta wait 8 weeks! really nervous though, he said the whole things gotta come out cos ultrasound showed nodules with very little thyroid tissue and biopsy showed follicular cells! nervous but looking forward to getting rid of it!

was also told i would have to have my vocal cords tested pre op, anyone else had this done? anyone know how they do this?

Helen x x x

[helsurf]

thanx for your response, don't like the sound of that though, how long does it take? thanx again x xx

[octbride]

yeah when i went in for my surgery consult, they ran a tube up my nose, down my throat to make sure that my thyroid or the nodule wasn't pushing up against my vocal cords (or something like that!).  it wasn't the most pleasant thing, but not painful at all (u just feel like u have to sneeze really bad lol).

[helsurf]

thanx for your reply nissah, no i don't have any hoarseness (only somethimes lately when i get tired) i was just told that i would have to have the cords checked out by ENT before surgery. x x x

[nissah46]

I had this done a couple of times. The doctor puts a very thin long instrument in your nose and feeds it up and is able to see the vocal cords. Do you have any hoarseness now?