| As different as the thyroid problems may be, there is | | | | removed. Before undergoing surgery, the doctor will tell |
| a treatment for each and one of them. Some are | | | | you what your options are. Not always surgeons |
| more complicated, others are very simple. | | | | know if they are going to remove the whole gland or |
| For example, if the thyroid gland produces a quantity | | | | just parts of it. This fact is usually discussed in the |
| of hormones much greater than necessary, doctors | | | | surgery room, while the operating takes place. The |
| might choose to remove the gland. In contrast, if the | | | | doctors, after removing one lobe of the thyroid, do a |
| thyroid produces less hormones, hormone pills are | | | | microscopic reading to determine if the other part of |
| given to the patient, in order to balance the hormonal | | | | the gland must be removed as well. This test is called |
| production. This pill must be taken once a day. | | | | a frozen section. This test is taken every time |
| If lumps or goiters are the thyroid problems one may | | | | because doctors must be sure what to do next. |
| experience, the treatment is set after a thorough | | | | After the operation took place, a tube will be inserted |
| investigation. Thyroid lumps can be malign or benign. | | | | into the wound. This drain has the role to prevent fluid |
| Joyfully, most of these lumps are benign. But they also | | | | to build up in the wound. That tube is removed when |
| must be treated. It is best to try at first a treatment | | | | chances of the fluid building are minimal. Hospitalization |
| through hormones. The effect is the shrinkage of the | | | | does not take long, patients are known to be released |
| lump and it usually takes three up to six months.There | | | | from hospital as soon as three days after the surgery. |
| is also the case in which this mass will not shrink, even | | | | There are almost zero complications after surgery, but |
| if treated with these medication. The procedure then is | | | | if indeed they exist, they are not of a high importance. |
| to remove the lump completely. | | | | Little bleeding, small problems in swallowing, numbness |
| As i have said before, most of them are benign. But if | | | | of the neck. |
| it were the case that the lump should turn up to be | | | | If thyroid surgery is performed to a patient, that person |
| malign, other treatments are necessary. It is first | | | | might have to take medication in order to replace the |
| recommended that a fine needle aspiration to be | | | | thyroid hormones. Because there is the risk of low |
| made, to determine the state of the lump. If it turns out | | | | calcium in the blood, some might also have to take |
| to be cancerous, then surgery is absolutely necessary. | | | | calcium as well.This fact depends on how much of the |
| Surgery is a must in cases of thyroid cancer, because | | | | thyroid gland is removed. |
| a part of the thyroid or even the whole gland must be | | | | |