It can be treated by taking the correct doses of thyroid medications for YOU. You need to find someone knowledgeable, so they don't just follow the party line, but will use both labs and symptoms to adjust your meds.

Treating thyroid can take time. I've heard that once your doseage levels are correct, improvement in health can continue for two years! The thyroid hormones are used by every cell and organ, so it takes time for any damage to be reversed.

This website has a lot of good information: http://thyroid.about.com

My mom (the Lymie of the family) had a nodule and a cyst biopsied earlier this year. Both came back as benign.

Try not to freak out too badly - thyroid issues are very treatable these days. Heck, my sister's cat just had the radioactive iodine treatment done for his thyroid - if they can manage a cat's thyroid, they can manage yours!

My mom also has thyroid issues and nodules were found. All turned out to be fine. My mom is to work on strenghing her immune system.

Anyway, while she was freaked out and her computer down, my reseach suggested that nodules were ok, that a growth would be more of an issue.

My mom isn't to the point of knowing just what condition she has, maybe Grave's. I say Lyme. She lives in the woods in NJ and has a bunch of symptoms.

Mel