Thyroid Patient’s Road Map for Obtaining Their Way From Fear and Anxiety of Finding a Nodule with Symptoms and Cosmetic Issues to The Relief of Resolving the Problem With Little or No Damage to Their Thyroid Gland Health.

Thyroid Patient’s Road Map for Obtaining Their Way From Fear and Anxiety of Finding a Nodule with Symptoms and Cosmetic Issues to The Relief of Resolving the Problem With Little or No Damage to Their Thyroid Gland or their Health.

1. Don’t let your fears and anxiety cause you to loose site of the goals.

2. Benign thyroid nodules are not cancer.

3. Don’t let your desire to solve the problem by the most available way with surgery.

4. Consider the downside you don’t think about when you are rushed to solve it with surgery.

5. You will loose half of your thyroid, and most likely need to take thyroid hormone for life.

6. You will spend time in the hospital to have the surgery, exposed to deadly hospital based infections.

7. You will be subject to possible complications such as voice changes and calcium imbalance, and recovery symptoms of pain, drug hangover, loss of ability to work for days, and the removal of stitches from your new neck scar.

8. Benign thyroid nodules cause symptoms and look bad. Neither requires surgery.

9. There are minimally invasive methods to solve your problem with the least downside compared to surgery.

10 Mostly fluid filled nodules are best ablated by chemical method using Ethanol called Ethanol Ablation EA, or PEI.

11. Mixed cyst/solid benign nodules can be best treated by radiofrequency ablation RFA or a combination of EA and RFA.

12. Your problem with extended time with anxiety and fear it might be cancer will be solved without any serious problems for your feature life.

13. Have no fear you have other low risk options for your solid benign nodule.

14. RFA can solve your two problems and leave you whole.The reduction in the size by about 50% will solve the symptoms and cosmetic issues without surgery.

15. The decreased quality of life issues associated with removal of all or half of your thyroid by surgery and long term dose adjustments of your thyroid hormone dose will not happen. Your life will be normal without reduced Quality issues from surgery.

16. The effect of using minimally invasive therapy is to relieve your fear of the unknown with surgery and cool your anxiety level by a quick resolution of your problem with EA or RFA.

17. Call me at 310-393-8860 or email to thyroid.manager@thyroid.com.

Dr.G.