My check up went well with a resident instead of my usual ENT doc yesterday, but he's insisting that I find a primary care doc here locally and get my thyroid tested. At least get a baseline, but their records indicate that I was borderline hypothyroid last time they check about six months ago. Now, of course, it makes sense to me that my thyroid was probably fried with radiation... but really I feel FINE at the moment. Then again, compared to the end of treatment last year, I'm bouncing on air.

Not to get lengthy, I don't understand thyroid issues in layman's terms. I'm also resisting having to take yet another daily pill (ugh.. I'm starting to HATE pill bottles)

My question for you fellow head and neck cancer survivors is if you too have to take thyroid meds? Do they have any bad side effects? My resident yesterday seemed to indicate that my thyroid MIGHT recover and it may be a possibility that I might not even need the synthetic thyroid med, but I'm wondering if that means there's a possibility I'll be on synthetic thyroid the rest of my life?

Guess perhaps one of the reasons I'm balking is that I have just started to regain some of the weight I lost and don't want any medication that regulates my metabolism to screw up any of these hard won gains. Hope that makes sense

Jen