Thyroid (pain, blood, sore, surgery)

[anticloud]

So in the ongoing saga of my thyroid issues, my primary believes I have something like Hashimotos after seeing my ultrasound results that revealed a minor goiter with multiple nodules. He is running thyroid antibody tests and some others now.

But in the last few days I have developed a constant chest pain and feeling like I am being strangled. It feels like something is being ripped from my chest when I cough. And I have a cough, btw. My neck is in so much pain and I usually have to lay down multiple times of day.

When I went in to my appointment yesterday my heart rate was 150 and I was gasping for air. I ended up being put on a beta blocker because my doctor says the thyroid issues could be causing this. Last night I took the beta blocker and it helped slightly with the chest pain. By the end of the night, though, I went through a bag of throat lozenges (I have a constant strep throat feeling sore throat as well) and had ice packs on my neck and chest. It was really hard to fall asleep. Today I am fairly certain the pain is going to progress to that again because it is already feeling that way. I sent a message to my primary to ask about pain relief options while I am on beta blockers.

Anyway, has anyone else dealt with this in thyroid issues? I am really feeling like this is getting serious with the possible involvement of my heart and the constant chest pain.

[SouthernBelleInUtah]

Not symptoms like you have but I had multinodular goiter. It was treated by swallowing radioactive iodine: thyroid is only tissue that takes up iodine. I felt nothing at all! It killed my thyroid so now I am on replacement pills. No more problems.

[anticloud]

Originally Posted by SouthernBelleInUtah

Not symptoms like you have but I had multinodular goiter. It was treated by swallowing radioactive iodine: thyroid is only tissue that takes up iodine. I felt nothing at all! It killed my thyroid so now I am on replacement pills. No more problems.

So... did they take your thyroid out or do you just have a dead thyroid in your neck?

[jaminhealth]

Find a really really qualified MD before thinking about removing thyroid.

Short story, a friend listened to one of her docs and sucked on Tums daily to get her daily calcium requirement, so says the doc. This daily Tums caused deposits on her thyroid and then she listened to another doc and agreed to have most of her thyroid removed. She lost a lot of her voice and now realizes all the info given her was wrong.

I'd venture to say, SO MANY pop those tums on a regular basis.

I thought a simple antibody test showed the Hashi issue. Think it was a TPO test I had done by an integrative MD yrs ago..my numbers were elevated.

[SouthernBelleInUtah]

Originally Posted by anticloud

So... did they take your thyroid out or do you just have a dead thyroid in your neck?

Dead thyroid. Why risk major surgery to remove something not causing trouble?

[suzy_q2010]

Originally Posted by SouthernBelleInUtah

Dead thyroid. Why risk major surgery to remove something not causing trouble?

Yep.

The whole idea of using radioactive iodine is to avoid surgery.

[bluedevilz]

Originally Posted by jaminhealth

Find a really really qualified MD before thinking about removing thyroid.

Short story, a friend listened to one of her docs and sucked on Tums daily to get her daily calcium requirement, so says the doc. This daily Tums caused deposits on her thyroid and then she listened to another doc and agreed to have most of her thyroid removed. She lost a lot of her voice and now realizes all the info given her was wrong.

I'd venture to say, SO MANY pop those tums on a regular basis.

I thought a simple antibody test showed the Hashi issue. Think it was a TPO test I had done by an integrative MD yrs ago..my numbers were elevated.

1. Nope....the info given YOU was wrong

Tums "do not cause calcium deposits in the thyroid"....not even REMOTELY possible

You continually make this same claim regarding the same story and it is UTTER NONSENSE

"Researchers haven't identified any direct links between calcium intake (via food or supplements) and soft tissue accumulation"
Calcium beyond the bones - Harvard Health

2. Why is it important to be aggressive with thyroid calcifications?

This study suggests that ultrasound features of microcalcifications, solid nodule and size larger than 2 cm can be used to identify patients at high risk for thyroid cancer. In contrast, other studies have shown that ultrasound features such as coarse calcifications, more tall than wide, irregular borders and increased blood flow within the nodule can be helpful to identify thyroid cancer. Currently, the American Thyroid Association guidelines recommends to perform a FNAB of solid nodules >1 cm and nodules >0.5 cm only when they have suspicious features detected by ultrasound.
https://www.thyroid.org/patient-thyr...issue-1-p-6-7/

So to review.....correlation DOES NOT equal causation....

Because your friend "sucked on Tums daily" does NOT mean it had ANYTHING to do with her thyroid calcifications....in fact there IS NO EVIDENCE OF SUCH A LINK

Thyroid calcifications are commonly seen with thyroid CANCER hence the need for excision....

You can keep telling the same Tums story over and over and I will keep shooting it down because it is NONSENSE