thyrogen bloodwork...cancer or "good" thyroid tissue
What thyrogen number is considered OK and what is considered high?
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what is your tg level on thyrogen (stimulated tg level)?
When some tissue is visualized on a sonogram - even if tg is elevated or not, techinically there is no way of knowing if it is regular thyroid tissue or cancerous tissue without a biopsy.
I remember your tg was 14 and then dropped to 1 or something in the next draw... was one of those tests with thyrogen (stimulated level)?0 -
miladyxmiladyx said:what is your tg level on thyrogen (stimulated tg level)?
When some tissue is visualized on a sonogram - even if tg is elevated or not, techinically there is no way of knowing if it is regular thyroid tissue or cancerous tissue without a biopsy.
I remember your tg was 14 and then dropped to 1 or something in the next draw... was one of those tests with thyrogen (stimulated level)?
Boy, you have a good memory!
I go for my thyrogen and body scan next week.
I had a sonogram over a month ago and the sono dr said there was a small mass in my neck. To him it looked like thyroid tissue.
My endo dr said the next step would be either thyrogen/body scan or biopsy. (He left which one I had up to me.) I asked if one was better than the other for showing if it was cancer or not and he said they were both about the same. He said he would start w/the thyrogen/body scan and could always do the biopsy later. (I don't know if it is because the biopsy is more invasive.)
So, I opted for the shot/scan. But now I am having second thoughts and wondered if I should have gone the biopsy route. To me, that would be more definitive. Especially since I had a body scan in March and it showed up negative...BUT, the dr I had at that time didn't do the thyrogen bloodwork so even though the scan was negative I never got a precise answer. (I didn't know that until I changed drs.)
If thyrogen comes back low, then what would the small mass in my neck mean? "Good" thyroid tissue?
I just hate the waiting!0
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