Sorry for my even later reply. It took a couple surgeries to remove my thyroid and lymph nodes it had spread to. And a few rounds of radioactive iodine treatmen

Sorry for my even later reply. It took a couple surgeries to remove my thyroid and lymph nodes it had spread to. And a few rounds of radioactive iodine treatment and scans to get the parts that had spread through my lymphatic system. My last treatment was 10 years ago during high school and I've thankfully scanned clean since. Management has been staying on a relatively high thyroid hormone replacement dose and periodic radioactive iodine scans. Worst case scenario, the scan requires a grueling couple weeks off of my medication and on a low-iodine diet so that any remaining thyroid cells are completely starved and ready to absorb the radioactive dose. Best case, the recombinant thyroid-stimulating hormone, Thyrogen, is available and my insurance is willing to pay for it because it reduces prep to a pre-scan injection.