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wendy55
8 years agoMember
Now that really is interesting, dense breast - hyperthyroidism, my initial diagnosis was Graves Disease, then after my surgery and a period of time I went the other way, it was my diagnosis of Chronic fatigue that led my endocrinologist to putting me on tertroxin to see if that would help which it did, I would like to know more about the slow release form of this?
because of the different chemotherapy I have been on I noticed different changes at various times and having had this disease for many years, knew that it was time for a blood test and a visit to my specialist, my tertroxin levels had to be tweaked because my body was not absorbing my medication properly, along with breast cancer just another thing to manage, no one ever told me about dense breasts and I used to have my mammograms regularly every 2 years since I was 40, apparently now if you believe you have dense breasts YOU have to ask the question not the other way round,all women should be told if they have dense breasts, so that if they do they then can make the choice to have other forms of screening ie ultra sound 3d mammogram or mri, we should NOT have to ask it should be automatic on the part of the screening institution,I believe in the USA women who have been diagnosed with dense breasts are given an MRI, I was given the all clear on my mammogram and then only months later was given a diagnosis of stage 4 with mets in my liver and spine with 3 tumours in my left breast work that out!
because of the different chemotherapy I have been on I noticed different changes at various times and having had this disease for many years, knew that it was time for a blood test and a visit to my specialist, my tertroxin levels had to be tweaked because my body was not absorbing my medication properly, along with breast cancer just another thing to manage, no one ever told me about dense breasts and I used to have my mammograms regularly every 2 years since I was 40, apparently now if you believe you have dense breasts YOU have to ask the question not the other way round,all women should be told if they have dense breasts, so that if they do they then can make the choice to have other forms of screening ie ultra sound 3d mammogram or mri, we should NOT have to ask it should be automatic on the part of the screening institution,I believe in the USA women who have been diagnosed with dense breasts are given an MRI, I was given the all clear on my mammogram and then only months later was given a diagnosis of stage 4 with mets in my liver and spine with 3 tumours in my left breast work that out!