Hi Maria,
Sorry to hear about your new occurence. That's the pits!

Are they taking the entire thyroid or just one side? I had partial thyroidectomy and parathyroidectomy when the removed my larynx. Doctor had hoped that the other side would kick in so I would not have to take synthroid. However, the part that was left was too fried by radiation to pick up the slack. I had no cancer in the organ itself, not now take synthroid daily as it the other half does function. Took forever to get my dosage correct. Make certain you have a full thyroid test before they do surgery so you know your TSH, T3, etc. levels are so you can get back to YOUR noraml. The noraml range for these numbers is large so you need to know what your normal is. Have you had radiation to that area before. It would help if you had a report with that info from before radiation. They should have done one. I don't have my tests with me, so don't have all the field names on test. Will try to remember to look. I will also talk to one of the guys I work with who had thyroid problems. I think they removed his entire thyroid and he is doing just fine.

Take care,
Eileen