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Hey! These scans look very much like my innards! My trachea/esophagus isn't quite that badly shoved aside, but the CT scan is very similar to what my alignment looks like. Multinodular substernal goiter. Fun! I should note that I am not certain if it's my trachea or my esophagus that's shoved aside. It is probably the esophagus that's shoved, and the trachea that's compressed. Normally, they should align with each other for a while.
Here's a normal neck:
You can see the larynx there (hence the possibility of permanent hoarseness); and the part that makes me nervous a bit, the carotid arteries. Eep! Please have steady hands, Dr. General! He'll be cutting out the right half of the thyroid. Then my tumors are down below in the upper chest, sort of behind my breastbone and wrapped around my trachea, but sort of attached by threads to the bad side of the thyroid.
In retrospect, I am kind of irritated with my normal GP. I cough more than anyone, all the time, and yet he never thought to get a chest x-ray before now? He brushed off my questions and said it was my asthma. Which has never been serious, ever, and yet the last year and a half or so I've complained about constant coughing and (what I call) wet lungs. His response? More prescriptions. Which I didn't take. Leaving me to conclude that my coughing was my fault.
Sigh. Why do I keep having to learn obvious things about the medical world, things like "see a specialist"? I must be incredibly dim.
Here's a normal neck:
You can see the larynx there (hence the possibility of permanent hoarseness); and the part that makes me nervous a bit, the carotid arteries. Eep! Please have steady hands, Dr. General! He'll be cutting out the right half of the thyroid. Then my tumors are down below in the upper chest, sort of behind my breastbone and wrapped around my trachea, but sort of attached by threads to the bad side of the thyroid.
In retrospect, I am kind of irritated with my normal GP. I cough more than anyone, all the time, and yet he never thought to get a chest x-ray before now? He brushed off my questions and said it was my asthma. Which has never been serious, ever, and yet the last year and a half or so I've complained about constant coughing and (what I call) wet lungs. His response? More prescriptions. Which I didn't take. Leaving me to conclude that my coughing was my fault.
Sigh. Why do I keep having to learn obvious things about the medical world, things like "see a specialist"? I must be incredibly dim.
