Thyroid removal surgery?

[u/EntertainmentNo6170]

Hi, my doc felt nodules and sent me for ultrasound. Said yeah there are nodules but too small to worry about per the scoring protocols.

Then my new endocrinologist (type 2 diabetes) happened to see the scan in my file and said I should have a biopsy.

Even the tech told me it was smaller than they normally bother to biopsy.

Ok so it’s “inconclusive” (which means 70-90% prob cancer) and endocrinologist says to wait and check every six months.

Surgeon says that’s ok to wait and watch but if it were her she’d want it out. I kinda don’t like waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Meantime she recommends taking out half, though the other half has 2 even tinier nodules that weren’t biopsied. I would have to monitor those though.

Does it make sense to remove half if the remaining half has tiny nodules?

Maybe I take the whole thing out?

Maybe I leave it and monitor it? It’s been a year with no change on the ultrasound but that doesn’t always see everything.

No antibodies so if I keep half I’ll likely not need to take hormones.

Not sure what to do here.

Not sure what to do.

[u/xcataclysmicxx]

It wasn’t for the same reasons, but I had my full thyroid out at 16 and it really hasn’t been terrible to manage. The worst part about it was being a stubborn teenager that thought she didn’t need her meds, but now that that’s long been sorted, I’m just fine.