Rhonda,
Welcome. I am getting prepared for mine on the 6th. I feel comfortable with my surgeon. I am just still so scared of the surgery. The post op nausea and vomiting is really bothering me. I do not want to be sick after this surgery. My doctor said the pain is mild to moderate(this coming form her pervious patients).
Tell me about your surgery will it be a TT or a PT?
I am getting very nervous! I do not like being put under it scares me.I am also afraid of what they might find in there.I am also worried about what my life will be like without my thyroid, will I gain weight,will I be more depressed,
YIKES!! bet you are sorry you asked.. lol
Thank you again
shasta (aka Lynda)
Lynda,
You are going to do great! I know the 28th is almost here and you are going to do great in surgery and heal fast! Please keep us up to date on your recovery and how the suregry went. My thoughts are with you.
Lynda,
You are going to do great! I know the 28th is almost here and you are going to do great in surgery and heal fast! Please keep us up to date on your recovery and how the suregry went. My thoughts are with you.
Hugs-
Kerri
THANK YOU so much for your kind words and concern. I know I am being a bit of a baby I am sur things will be fine.
Rhonda,
Welcome. I am getting prepared for mine on the 6th. I feel comfortable with my surgeon. I am just still so scared of the surgery. The post op nausea and vomiting is really bothering me. I do not want to be sick after this surgery. My doctor said the pain is mild to moderate(this coming form her pervious patients).
Tell me about your surgery will it be a TT or a PT?
Kerri
Thanks for the welcome! I meet with my endocrinologist and my surgeon on Tuesday so I should have more answers...hopefully enough answers to calm my nerves. If I understood right, my surgery will be a PT...the right side of my thyroid is swollen with nodules that are hot. The biopsy results came back indeterminable...so I agreed with my endo that it would be best to move forward with surgery. I am hoping for the best...clean tissue, so I have only half removed and that my thyroid will continue to function on it's own.
Our surgeries are very close together...yours on the 6th and mine on the 8th. We certainly will have notes to compare...I too am really nervouse about being sick after the surgery...I have never had general anesthesia so I have no idea how I will react. I just get sweaty and shaky just thinking about it! (Doesn't help with symptoms of being hyperT ) I am hoping that I will feel like a million bucks after I recover from surgery...that should be the positive side of all the worrying!
Have you started taking SSKI for your surgery? I started mine on Tuesday. The doctor wanted me to start taking it 7 days before my appointment on the 29th. I don't much like it...but I guess it is nesessary!
Rhonda,
I am like you. Everytime I start to think about the surgery...I get sick!! Your right it does not help with my hyper either. What is SSKI? I am not taking it.
Rhonda,
I am like you. Everytime I start to think about the surgery...I get sick!! Your right it does not help with my hyper either. What is SSKI? I am not taking it.
Thanks-
Kerri
SSKI is potassium iodine. From what I have read it is to help make the thyroid less vascular (sp?)...and prepare it for surgery. I was thinking it would slow the thyroid down...but I think it is just making me feel all the crazier. I take it 3 times a day diluted in water...and it tastes awful. Consider yourself lucky not to have to take it!!
It went well he took the right lobe and half of the left. Not to much pain i am at home being spoiled by my husband.
Thank you again
Lynda
That is great to hear! So how did the surgery go from pre op to recovery (that you are doing now)? I hope you are still be pampered by dear hubby. Mine hubby is trying to keep me from falling apart.
This surgery is just doing a number on me. I stay upset and sick to my stomach worried about it.
That is great to hear! So how did the surgery go from pre op to recovery (that you are doing now)? I hope you are still be pampered by dear hubby. Mine hubby is trying to keep me from falling apart.
This surgery is just doing a number on me. I stay upset and sick to my stomach worried about it.
Any himts to help with the surgery?
Thanks-
Kerri
I was a wreck I was so scared,but everything went fine.I am in a bit of pain nothing to bad though.
Re: Thyroidectomy Coming Up Input Please 
Re: Thyroidectomy Coming Up Input Please 
Your right it does not help with my hyper either. What is SSKI? I am not taking it.
