Hmmm what now, the other T.
Thyroid. Well, my Dr. checked my thyroid functioning, and it was a little low, on the hypo side. So he scheduled me in for more blood work, and for an ultrasound. The results of the second blood work came back normal. Which is the first thing he told me, and then said, which is funny, because I wouldn’t have had you go in for the ultrasound then. I was just thinking, so that’s that, all normal, when he said, which is good you did, because the ultrasound found some little areas of extra dense tissue. He went on in great detail about how they were two very small areas of only about 4mm each. But, to be on the safe side, and we like that, I should go have some more tests, radioactive joy, they will tell me whether these areas, he explained are either dense growths of thyroid tissue, in which case the radioactive marker that’s attracted to thyroid will be drawn there, and it will show that, or it’s not thyroid tissue in which case the radioactive marker will not penetrate well into it. Then if it’s not thyroid tissue, we get to discovering exactly what it is, which means biopsy. I have to wait till mid august to do the next tests with radiology. Then some time for the results. So likely won’t know till end of august whether it’s all okay, or off for surgery. Of course, now I’m off to google my odds of thyroid cancer, and what other goodies may or may not be in store for me. This is not what one wants to hear on days when you’re feeling totally worn out and exhausted. He also needed more blood testing to do another level to see whether it’s normal or not, it could be ‘fluctuating’… hmmm, weird. The good news, by the time I was back to the lab with my paperwork they still had the vials they’d taken this morning to test my levels of testosterone with and didn’t have to poke me and take more blood, they can test for the other T, the thyroid levels of the blood taken to check the testosterone with. I’m exhausted, give me more T and T, but please, don’t give me the big C.