Having had surgery to remove half of my thyroid and a rather large benign (thankfully) nodule I am still considerable discomfort three weeks later. Does anyone have any experience of this and is it normal?
The surgery went well - about three hours, and I was discharged the following day. Apart from a small issue with being allergic to the steristrips they used over the stitches all went to plan.
From what I understand most people recover quite quickly from thyriod surgery, but I am still having to take a considerable amount of painkillers - well I think it is anyway!
The nodule removed was nearly 8cm and had moved my windpipe out of place amongst other things, and had gone down below my collar bone.
I guess my question is, was it the size of the nodule that is causing the what feels to be a very slow recovery or is it normal with thyriod surgery? anyone any experience of this?
(Note: am going back to see the consultant next week and will ask then, but am getting fed up of how long it seems to be taking.)
xx