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Papillary Thyroid Cancer With Lymph Node Involvement. Smelling Cigarette Smoke After Thyroidectomy. Why?
My friend has papillary thyroid cancer with metastatic lymph node involvement. She has had a total thyroidectomy and a neck dissection. Right now she is smelling cigarette smoke a lot of the time and her eyes even burn like she s in a smokey room. Is this related to the thyroid cancer? She will be having ablation soon.
Mon, 25 Feb 2013
Sorry to hear about your friend's problem. The problems she is describing are not related to the surgery. Her management has been done according to the normal protocols and such a problem is not associated with the surgery.
Still she can contact her doctor, who can refer her to an ENT specialist for review.
Hope she gets well soon.
Still she can contact her doctor, who can refer her to an ENT specialist for review.
Hope she gets well soon.
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