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Thyroid irradiated by mistake by a doctor treating a nasal polyp and adenoid regrowth when I was 10 y.o. • Early 20s: multi-nodular goiter with hyperplasia, hypothyroid, treatment was thyroid suppression with Synthroid.
Not exact matches
She suffered through years of stomach pain medication, fertility drugs, an
irradiated thyroid,
thyroid medication, migraine pills, and finally, draining rounds of chemotherapy.
50 years ago my
thyroid was mostly removed because it had been
irradiated.
Radioactive iodine, given by injection (usually under the skin), becomes concentrated in the
thyroid gland, where it
irradiates and destroys the hyperfunctioning tissue.