Hi everyone, I've been having thyroid problems for many years, I have a multi nodular goitre, with a cyst on the left lobe. I found out today it has pushed my trachea way out off line and I'm finally going to have surgery to remove part of it. You would not believe the fight I have had to get this far and it's only by insisting the consultant look again at my scans that it was discovered how bad things are. He dismissed my symptoms of fatigue, weight gain, pain, difficulty breathing/swallowing etc said that thyroid difficulties would not cause this, I said I could no longer cope so he literally looked at the scan from a different angle and low and behold he was shocked! I am now really worried I have cancer that has spread, as I have had increasing constant left side breast, under arm and back pain for a very long time which the doctors have again dismissed without scans! I also have had shingles around my left ear/scalp resulting in mild left side facial paralysis. I'm now going to have to fight for more scans and I literally do not have any faith that I will be taken seriously! Sorry mega post!!