"He pretty much said I'd lose feeling in my ear neck shoulder for life I'd be on vitamin d and calcium tablets for life but reading up I think that's a worse case scenario."

Yup, those are possibilities, not certainties. They will test your calcium levels after the operation to see if they have been effected and even if they are, it's quite likely it will only be a temporary thing.

They go through all the possibilities so that you are prepared for the worst. And those aren't big deals anyway.

And yeah, recovery is different depending on each person and what you need to do. I was joking with colleagues that I'd probably have come back a week earlier apart from one particular class group that I had to be able to turn my head pretty quickly with as whenever I was watching one side of the room, somebody at the other side was up to mischief!

And yup, it's apparently most common in women in their 30s and 40s.

Best of luck with the radioiodince, Lost92. And hopefully you will be able to sing again too. Around your stage, I could speak normally but...realised when I went back to work that I couldn't shout across the yard, so had students running around saying, "Miss says you need to stay away from that" or "Miss says it's time to come in." I'm not exactly sure when it entirely returned to normal as the world shut down two and a bit months after my operation, but it was fine by the time we returned to normal the following summer.

You will presumably have a full body scan after the radioiodine that will tell for sure if it's spread anywhere else, but it is highly unlikely, as only 1%-4% of cases do, I think and of those, I think 80% spread to the lungs, which I assume a chest x-ray would pick up on. The odds of spread to anywhere else is under 1%, I think.

Best of luck with the rest or your treatment lost92 hopefully I'll know more once I get the core biopsy done I'm expecting the worse but upto now I've took it on the chin but that maybe because I dunno exactly how my journey with this is gonna pan out as of yet. These threads are great for support especially for those who are going through the same thing.

I'm in Ireland, so might be different for ye, but I think it was...about two or three weeks? I had the scan at the end of May 2020 and got the results mid-June. 

The MRI scan was in November and I didn't have my surgery until end of June. So I waited 7 months.

I.hope you hear something soon..xxx

Tru