My question requires a bit of background. I am 28 years old today. I develop a thyroglossal duct cyst when I was one and half and I had surgery (the Sistrunk procedure). I believe that I had a postoperative infection (and preoperative). Everything healed up and I had a scare for a long time. When I was 12 years old it returned infected. I was treated with antibotics but no sugery. I am not certain if we did not opt for the surgery because we could not afford it, or because it was not recomended or because I did not want to do it. All are possible. The antibotics took the infection away and it did not bother me again until I was 16 years old. This time the ENT specialist that I was normally seeing was not at the hospital which we had to drive 2 hours to visit and his fill in decided to take a sample (and the need was not thin!) because he wanted to see if it was cancerous. Again I was treated with antibotics and it reoccurred again when I was 18. This time the leakage would build up under a film of skin and I would have to lance it once a day to relieve the pressure. This continued for months. I don't think I was too interested in visiting a doctor at this point, and most likely I did not have insurance or money to cover the cost of a visit any way. At some point the "film" stopped building up and it would just leak out when I would drink or eat and sometime if I were to talk for a long period of time. Over the years the consistance of the mucus has become less thick and clear instead of the snot like consistance and heavy flow it orginally had.
So my question is after 10 years of living with this, with very little pain (unless I am sick with a sinius infection or cold, then it is tender when swallowing) should I bother trying to find a doctor for this? It is more of an annoyance than anything else. Besides from the research that I have done it seems like the rate of reoccurance for me after another surgery is going to be pretty good, so why should I bother with it? My thyroid functions normally, and last time I checked I don't have cancer.