My mom is going to be 70 yrs old in April. She is very active and in general good health. She had thyroid cancer a few years ago, had surgery to get cancer removed and was cleared of it. Now she had to quit her daily medication to do her blood test for her 2nd or 3rd follow up and of course like before not taking her medication makes her feel tired and exhausted. Last night she complained that the top of her head hurts and when she touches the spot, which is like the babies soft spot is tender and feels indented and soar. She has not hit her head, and drinks a lot of water and she has a healthy diet . She don t want to go to her general physician and wants to wait until she goes see her cancer doctor when she gets the results of her test which she won t have until like 3 weeks from now if that. Should she not wait until then to get that checked out? Should we worry? Since after doing some reaserch I have noticed this soft spot is a more common thing that we thought.
Hi, In thyroid cancer near total thyroidectomy with central neck node dissection done. Then radio iodine uptake scan was done to find out any residual disease and based on this radio-iodine ablation done. Patient has to take Thyroxine hormone life long. Now probably your doctor has suggested repeat radio iodine scan. For this purpose thyroxine hormone has to be stopped. These symptoms may be for that reason. You need not be worried much. This will be normalized after. For better view you may consult an endocrinologist. Take care.