Graves disease causes thyroid cancer
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Similarly, sarcoidosis of the thyroid gland may develop in response to an established thyroid disorder including Graves’ disease, nodular goiter, and thyroid cancer. Patients with Graves’ disease may also have concomitant conditions of sarcoidosis affecting the lungs. Patients with systemic sarcoidosis may also develop sarcoid lesions in various organs including the thyroid gland.
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Most nodules are very rarely cancerous but still have to be checked.
I suffer from Graves Disease and Hyperthyroidism and often go through periods of swollen tight neck and pain swollowing (choking sensation).
What meds are you on and what were your Labs (Ft3, FT4, TSH)?
Cancer is not the only thing that causes nodules on your thyroid. Nodules are very common in people who have an autoimmune thyroid disease, such as Hashimoto's Thyroiditis or Graves Disease. Neither of these diseases are curable, but the resulting hyper or hypo are treatable. Many/most of us on this forum have one or the other, very few have both.
As noted, nodules are very common and are, typically, nothing to worry about. I, personally, have several of them.
Oh wow!!!! You really said you'd "rather deal with hyper thyroid than no thyroid'?!? I have hashi's AND graves' and there comes a point when you are so sick and tired of hearing "lets just wait and see" from the doctors...These disorders ROB you of a normal life and "dealing" with them for some of us is not an option....
I am a 25 y/o female diagnosed with hyperthyroidism at 16 and later with Graves Disease and Goiter. I have been on Tapazol along with Atenelol (for the Tachacardia) off and on for the past 9 years with no results. Every doc I see wants to discuss nothing but RAI or surgery. My husband and I have been trying to conceive for a few years with no success. I finally found out that I was pregnant the beginning of last year and made it to 4 months and suffered a miscarriage for no apparent reason.
My mother was diagnosed in her early 40s with graves disease and her thyroid was removed, around the same time she was diagnosed with stage 3-4 colon cancer. I'm aware there are connections between autoimmune diseases and thyroid and intestinal diseases/conditions. As I'm getting older I'm noticing I'm following in the same physiological footsteps my mother did before she was diagnosed.
You would need a minimum of TSH, Free T3 and Free T4, to begin with, to check thyroid function; along with a Thyroid Stimulating Immunoglobulin (TSI) to confirm/rule out Graves Disease, which is an autoimmune disease which causes hyperthyroidism and eventually destroys the thyroid gland.
If you can get those tests done, please obtain a copy of the lab report and post the results here, along with the lab's reference ranges, since these vary from lab to lab.
Here are some resources I suggest you research and maybe even talk to others with the same problem to share experiences it may help you feel better about your treatment decision.
Hormone Health Network information on thyroid disorders:
www.hormone.org/Resources/thyroid-disorders.cfm
• American Thyroid Association: www.thyroid.org
• Mayo Clinic: www.mayoclinic.com/health/graves-disease/
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• National Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases Information
Service (NIH): www.endocrine.niddk.nih.
The most common cause of this condition is related to the thyroid, sometimes called graves disease or thyroid eye disease. Other causes are low or high flow cavernous fistulas, cancer in the eye socket, orbital inflammatory disease and other very rare causes. Sometimes temporary eye muscle paralysis problems can cause this problem too. Again, thyroid disease is the most common cause. You need to seek the care of an Eye MD (ophthalmologist).
M PCP told me i had graves disease and referred me to an endo. The endo said that all of my symptoms "were in my head and nothing was wrong". A few years go by and I see my PCP again and asked how I have been treating my thyroid problems and I said "I don't have one". He showed me the consult report from the Endo confirming my PCP diagnosis. My question is this, What am I to do now? I have lost about 20 lbs. when i only weighed 110 2years ago and hair loss.
"Hypoechoic" means it appears darker on the ultrasound than the surrounding tissue. Hypoechoic when used to describe a single thyroid nodule compared to surrounding tissues has a higher probability of being malignant, however, when the entire thyroid gland is described as hypoechoicit often indicates an inflammatory thyroid disease such as Graves or Hashimoto's.
Heterogeneous echotexture is usually found in patients with Graves or Hashimoto's as well.
Graves Disease/thyroid conditions won't "cause" other conditions, but having one autoimmune disease increases the likelihood of having one or more other autoimmunes.
Also, autoimmunes tend to run in families, but not every family member gets the same one. For instance, I have Hashimoto's and Pernicious Anemia, my son has Type II diabetes and my daughter has Lupus --- all autoimmune.
You need to go have this lump checked out. It's very possible that it's just a nodule, which are very common and most nodules are not cancer, but there's no way you can know that without getting it tested.
Do you know the cause of your hyperthyroidism? Graves Disease is the main cause, but many people with Hashimoto's have hyperthyroidism in the beginning stages, often alternating with hypo or even normal, prior to permanent hypothyroidism.
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