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Recently diagnosed with thyroid cancer - Surgery soon

Magzie
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Hi,
I just thought id post on here to see if anyone has had similar experiences or has advice or answers for me.

I am 26 and have just been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, I have surgery in 2 weeks to removed y entire thyroid and all the lymph nodes on the left hand side.

I wondered if anyone has had thus surgery and can tell me what it is like afterwards? Also the recovery time?

Also what it is like being on the thyroid hormones.

Its also just nice to talk to people in the same or similar situations to understand how other people feel about having cancer, and are coming with it!

  • Hi Magzie,

    Welcome to Cancer Chat. I'm sorry to hear what you're going through at the moment and I hope you're getting on OK. I hope this forum can provide some support to you and you're quite right that it can be helpful just to write things down and speak to others who understand.

    My reply here will boost your post so more people will see it and if anyone has similar experience to share then hopefully they'll be along soon.

    It may also be worth browsing or searching (using the button in the blue bar above) the forum for any other similar discussions.

    Wishing you all the best,

    Ben
    Cancer Chat Moderator

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