Thyroid and neck pain
Common Questions and Answers about Thyroid and neck pain
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Shortness of breath can be a hypo symptom - I had it pretty bad when I was very hypo, but I don't believe the pain in the left arm, heaviness in the legs are thyroid related. Neck and jaw "maybe", but only if there were large goiter pressing on something essential, in which case that, most likely, would be felt/visible from the outside.
IMO - other things need to be checked out. Hashimoto's doesn't cause the symptoms -- resulting hypo does.
anxiety, shaky, ear pain and ringing, eye pain, diarrhea, weight loss, chest pain, then get the TSI test for Graves.
If you have some of the above symptoms, plus you alternate with hypo symptoms such as weight gain, constipation, depression, dry skin and eyes, hair loss, muscle pain, brain fog and migraine, rashes or hives, heartburn and GERD, then get the TGab and TPOab antibody tests for Hashimoto's.
Also, get an ultrasound of the thyroid.
could the nodules be in any way related to ear neck shoulder pain????? I forgot to mention the nodules to the GP last week ...she looked at my ear bc of my complaint and said it looked fine. Today they will probably call to tell me my blood tests where normal...I guess I will mention to the receptionist about the neck and ear pain and nodules... My eye doc wanted me to call him about glucose test to make sure this wasn't the cause of the change. A1c was normal.
My 8 year old son had decompression surgery in Jan 08 and for the last 2 months has been
suffering from pain in his upper back, neck and shoulders. A physical therapist says he has large knots in his muscles. the therapy helps a little but his pain is constant.
Has anyone else had this experience after surgery?
Also he has short statue but his thyroid tests have come back normal.???
Any suggestions?
Mostly the causative factors for thyroid nodule include age(younger than 20 years or older than 70),sex(more in males),family history of thyroid carcinoma and multiple endocrine neoplasia and radiation exposure of the neck,yet in a journal of the American College of Endocrinology and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists,it has been mentioned that cases have been reported in which thyroid nodule developed after trauma to the neck esp in accidents.
I should be called "feellikegreatgrandpappy" I'm 62 going on 90! I started with the neck and back in my early thirties. Also had hashimoto's- and had half my thyroid removed, the other half must have removed itself because it's no longer there!
I have a goiter - large one on left side and also having some neck pain left and headaches and sometimes ear pain also on left - the surgeon wants to remove the thyroid left but I like to have another biopsy as the last one 7-8 minths ago did notcome out right due to less cells - from the biopsy - you think that should have been reported to me - they did not found out the other day and my nodule has increased to 4.
BTW - Whenever my nodules leaked and I went hyper, I had this terrible pain in the back of my neck, like my neck was broken or my head weighed 100 pounds and it was hard to support it. I also had issues with low vitamin D and B12, as many of us Hashis do. I am on thyroid hormone now and my nodules have shrunk considerably. My hair loss stopped and my memory and focus has returned.
The reason I ask is because two weeks after my FNA I had neck pain on the whole left side that felt like I had whiplash and I also had a cold/sore throat. The neck pain lasted about a week and the sore throat lasted maybe 3 days. No one else seemed to think it was related to the FNA, but I couldn't figure out anything else it could be.
I should take Dolan for the neck pain and weakness. I think it makes me nervous and causes tremor which symptoms I already had before the medicine.
Doctors have suggestedted many diagnoses, not very seriously. They don't want to clear up the situation.
Polymyalgia, vasculitis myasthenia gravis, TIA, otosclerosis ??
They say that the neck weakness does not result from hyperparathyroidism. What is the cause for it?
yet, i jump online and there are SOOOOO many people going in to these docs, telling them their ears and necks hurt, and then a nodule(s) are found and the docs wont acknowledge them as a cause of pain. there is no doubt in my mind that thyroid nodules can and do cause neck and ear pain. the question becomes, when they are small, like mine and causing such pain, does it mean they are more likely cancerous (if painful) ?? do you push for a biopsy if there is pain??
I am taking all of the necessary tests now to be a candidate for a total thyroidectomy. All nodules are benign. Is it normal to feel pain with an enlarged thyroid? I always have this full feeling in my throat and it's very tender. Eating sometimes is a challenge. Sleeping is a nightmare! I can not get comfortable enough to sleep well. And if i talk for long periods at a time it hurts. I have one more scan to take before my head and neck surgeon gives his opinion.
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