First Time w/ Endo...Have ????

[Coco209]

After 16 Doctors, I am numb.  I'm being treated for Superior Laryngeal Neuralgia with no success.  A MRI picked up a 1.2 cm nodule on the same side that I'm having all of my problems.  So, I get REALLY excited because I think this nodule could be causing me 11 MONTHS of hoarsness, shortness of breath, pain from my jaw to my clavicle, burnng and other suffering :).  I am sent to an Endo.

Endo says no way that this "little" nodule could be doing this to me.  Impossible!!!  Yet, I read on this forum that other people are suffering like me with similar symptoms.  The pain does travel along my Carotid Artery and he does mention Carotidynia.  I've had this mentioned before but not diagnosed.  Artery seems fine in imaging.

He orders all the Thyroid tests and a sedimentation rate test.  I don't have the results yet.  So, experts, do you agree that this 1.2cm nodule could NOT, NO WAY be causing me this anguish and I need to look elsewhere?  Thanks.....I'll take any input....desperate!!

[mommy2two2008]

Carol - I sent you 2 notes on this.... hope it helps!  ~Kim

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If this nodule is solid and attached to the trachea, it can irritate the nerve during swallowing, however this is rather exception then the rule