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Thank you so much Doc. I breathe well and my voice is ok but sometimes i just feel funny.....(I'm a very active person) but i just feel like I've been fasting for long sometimes...(you know that feeling) and a little cold....but its not regular. So I'm tempted to pass it for pms really. Like I said earlier, a total thyroidectomy was recommended and the fact thatI have been on natural (vegetable diet) to see if it can shrink the node ( because I have read of that possibility online as well (hoping its not hoax)
I need you to please tell me what to expect with life on synthetic hormone. What are the side effects...I won't hesitate the surgery if after a second opinion it comes as the best option. I trust God to perfect it all which ever way but I just want to feel well and live well and long (lol)
God bless you and thank you,

Xiadnat:
Yea...well, one thing questions: are you having any symptoms such as: hoarseness, difficulty breathing/short of breath, difficulty swallowing? Any symptoms at all?

IF it is non cancerous as the negative FNA indicated, the other reason why operative route is justifiable is if you are getting symptoms from compression from the goiter.

If you are asymptomatic, the nodule may still grow and compressive up to a point that you may need to eventually get one.

If you have no symptoms and choose not to go through operation, just do regular follow up for re-checks of the goiter with period exam and TSH check. You do run a risk of goiter becoming hyper functioning and send you into a thyrotoxic state.

If you do get operated on, two options: lobectomy or (sub thyroidectomy) or you get total thyroidectomy. If total removal, you essentially have no thyroid gland/hormone, and you need replacement in the form of synthetic form after thorough post surgical follow up evaluation--which includes calcium check as well.

Lobectomy is reserved to those whose compressive symptoms are caused by single nodule.

I encourage you to obtain second opinion in regards with compressive nature of the goiter; that seems to be the determinative factor for you right now.

Hope this answers your questions. Please do not hesitate if further questions.

Best of luck.

Hello all, I have been advised to remove my thyroid. Can you please share your experience as well as post surgery recovery and experience. Thank you.

Hello Doctor. I have been diagnosed with a non-toxic multinodular goiter. I had an FNA and the result came negative. The Endo scheduled me for a total thyroidectomy because (as he claimed, its pressing on some vessels) all other test were withing a normal range except vit.D for which he prescribed a supplement. I have a read a lot of life being imbalanced after a TT. On the other hand (the Endo said the surgery was not urgent,this was Sept.2014) so i feel i should explore a natural diet change approach which I've read a lot about as well as pray for and believe for a miracle. The issues of damaged vocal chords and not being balanced emotionally,overweight etc are my reservations. I stated a thyroid supplement (Thyroid Support) but my mind said I should stop it because its not that natural as claimed and might lead to self medication. (my diet specialist adviced me to use it. I believe in the natural food approach though which is hinged on the ability of the body to heal itself. I also do not want a situation where I would regret not going for the surgery....do you get my point. Going under the knife is not my issue really as I have had a myomectomy and Cesarean Section twice...getting back to normal after the surgery is. Please i need your advice. While at this, I want to seek a second opinion from another Doctor in Nigeria (,Note: The first diagnosis was done in the UAE. please i need all you can tell me about it and especially your candid opinion about my case as well as life after surgery. Thank you.

obiaguna:
This Is a Nigerian problem. Once a member of the family makes money, every single person would start developing entitlement mentality and watch how they desert you once the money stops coming.

I hope Adebayor has investments sha cos he is already getting old.

That is the order in Nigeria ooo. It is very bad. He should just concentrate on investments and insurance for his kids...because if anything happens to him (God forbid) they will neglect the kid. He should also warn his nuclear family never to go near those investments in Africa that had been opened to his extended family (for their own safety) He should disconnect himself from them for now. He has tried. He is not El-Shaddai. Only El-Shaddai has the ability of meeting everybody's needs.

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adavetee:
For your information this particular section 182.1 of the 1999 constitution has been deleted in the alteration 19 of 2010 and fully amended. CHECK!!!

I know you E-11 Lawyers will be after your clients money and will not want to tell them the truth or probably ignorant of the position of the constitution as regards the shadows you are chasing(Fayemi) inclusive.

And the evidence of that is from your imagination abi? paste a copy of the so-called alteration and evidence that two-thirds of the state house of assemblies endorsed it. Maybe you're not aware of the process for constitutional amendment.
Walahi Nigerian educated class are mainly dull and ignorant no wonder we are at the bottom of innovation and achievement in world ranking.

I am not aware of this. I think it is more of christians not eating ileya meat...

synergycom19:
Muslims don't eat Christmas food/meat served to them by Christians, so it's also advisable that christains don't eat ILEYA meat

Dear,it is a big deal. I will tell you why? If you understand why projects are done in a university, you will get this straight. That noiseless solar powered tricycle should be put on project tour/exhibition which should be attended by government agencies and private investors. What Covenant have done is to tell investors that we can also look at it like this and produce cheaper cars. If any investor is thinking of investing, he would rather go to a CU and review this project because they have brought it out and would never go to your school. Not because the project done was not laudable but because our governments are not funding and monitoring schools properly.This trumpet blowing is a big deal. I hope our government will take a good cue from this.

Emasel:
No big deal!

A group of students in my set,executed a noiseless solar powered tricycle as their BEng project.Similar projects are being done everday in our public varsities,but nobody publicizes them.

igbsam:
I can authoritatively tell u that they built this automobiles right from d scratch. Every piece of it. No assembly or whatsoever. A friends brother is a member of d team who worked on the car project.

Op, u forgot to mention the trash bin they invented too. They need all d waste disposals to create another invention they are working on presently. CU is going far I must tell you. I didn't believe his brother until I heard the announcement in church yesterday.

Don't sound so authoritative. I am happy seeing this project don't get me wrong. Its a giant stride in a good direction but if you a an engineering graduate,you will understand what building a car from the scratch means and is.

I understand what they are want to achieve and really building the body from the scratch is not necessary. What I praise is the concept and that is what they did. Or are you saying the generator and batteries were also built from the scratch.

My take from this laudable project is that we don't have to rediscover Newton's Laws. Principles are already existing,let's just apply them and the government should fund it.
Welldone Covenant University.

Atetra: Goodday to u all,

One could say Mr President has said and touched the mind of yearning Nigerian youth who has over the years almost or completely lost faith in the MOTHERLAND(Nigeria).

It beseech one to ask what is the purpose of taking out eager and energetic youths, train them and push them into a labour market that those not have anything to offer them.

I and some very exciting and serious minded Nigerian youths just concluded a program organised by the SURE-P office of the Presidency. We were adequately drilled on establishing businesses and website creation to say a few. But at the end of the program that lasted for about 2 months, nobody from the SURE-P office deemed it fit to come address us on the last day, to gear us to up and possibly tell us what next to do. We were simply thrown out into the labour market that has no known room for us.

Mr President Sir, I feel you. We all know you can't do everything all by yourself. That is why you have MGDs, Agencies and what have you. Considering the statement you gave, which to me is very rightly strong worded, i hope the respective offices and people in-charge will deem it fit and do the needful.,without any political undertone. Because, that is part of what is giving us serious headache in this country.

Thank you Sir.

God bless Nigeria.

Abubakar Lateef A.

NB; For those of us who has been trained and treated this way, please what is the way forward. Also if possible we should look at how to galvanize discerning and
serious minded youths to engage the Government constructively on the plight of the NIGERIAN YOUTHS.

I guess you guys are still fresh from school and have little idea how societies develop. If you know about the thousands of position for code qualified welders, fitters, machinists etc occupied by Indians, Chinese, Filipinos, Indonesians to the detriment of mostly poorly trained or untrained nigerian artisans you will weep. I am talking of positions with monthly pay ranging from $ 3,000 - $5,000, with Nigerians mainly excluded due to clueless policies like the one Mr. Jona is promoting and dudes at the recieving end like you are hailing him for. OP even said he is taking him for his word as if he has any track record of keeping to any promise or agreement.

Evergreen123: So, because we didn't work with Ihejirika, igbos should fold their hands and watch others try to pull him down.
Like we are blind when he was terrorizing BH and successfully moved them to sambisa before his retirement.
Igbokwe, its called onye aghana nwanne ya.
It would have been selfish and careless of us to let such evil happen

^^^
One of the mentally challenged Ibos Joe was writing about.

You would think Ihejerika was Chief of Ibo Army staff or Stella was aviation minister of iboland.
Even Tafa's townsmen temporarily stopped identifying with Ila-orangun or so during his trial and conviction, not to talk of the reaction of the entire Yorubas.

Nobleval: Nigeria! Oh what hath thou done to deserve these leaders?

We are blessed with clueless leaders because we are generally clueless people. Can you imagine the OP quoting the repugnant news as evidence of the phantom transformation agenda. That is an example of clueless citizen dancing naked on the alter of mediocrity.

How can a sane person say this:

The president said it is better to train 20 people and use the money for 80 others to create employment for the 20 trained instead of training 100 people and none of them gets a job.

How logical is it to keep 80% of your people without marketable skills at Almajiri level as a state policy? This explains the reasons Nigerians prefer bricklayers, tilers and other artisan from Togo and Ghana to our own as government is training only 20% it can provide jobs for. No wonder when Dangote establishes cement plants, petrochemical plants, he has to employ Indians and Filipinos as technicians and technologist who have been empowered by their own government educational institutions.

While the 80% untrained and 20% half trained Nigerians continue to roam the street or are under-employed in government created jobs. Today Indians trained en-mass by government institutions are all over the world earning a good living, sending remittances to the local economy driving investment rather than been useless and ready army for militants.

By the standard of this statement by Mr. President, the investment of about 40% of budget of the Western Nigeria government is a waste, even when we see the returns evidently.

Another 4 years of this president with his warped logic will do serious violence to our values and competitiveness as a country. A people the say deserves the leadership they get.

Nobleval: they think we're foolish! Hmmmm Nigeria!

A large cross-section of educated Nigerians are actually foolish and have extremely low concept of leadership.
Character and values have little meaning to us but power and cash by any means is our ultimate value

I graduated in the years when there were no Private Universities....and tell you what? Debates back then was Federal Universities better than State Universities . When I saw this thread, I laughed. I attended a State owned University and I am very proud of the school and of all the drilling.Looking back and interacting with private university graduates now, I see that all schools have their adv. and disv. due to the way our country Nigeria is. I will encourage you guys from the public schools to better sit up and work harder. A first class is a first class (at least in Nigeria) irrespective of which school it is coming from. And what you all don't realize is that the rich parents who could send their kids to a private schools will secure a good job for them(if you are very observant you will know) infact the trend now is from those private schools straight to obtaining a foreign masters from UK. Seriously, I don't get to see a lot of private school kids roaming the street o.
Stop all these baseless comparisons (that had been before some of you were born) work hard wherever you find yourself because with the way Nigeria is schemed, you in the public universities will eventually have to fight harder to get through as your private school counterparts have rich and well connected parents (stop deceiving yourself)
I quite agree that some of them may be immature but not all who attended a public school comes out mature too.
Permit me to also stress that it's not the university you attend that should make you (in a country where all things are equal) but what you make of yourself. So guys sit tight and work hard where you are,your hating the private school students will not add anything to you. Just face your life and so your own. I could count several federal university graduate who are dumb and are not making any serious progress in their lives apart from maybe getting married (people in their mid forties and early fifties) who back in the days chaired federal vs state university debates.I could count people who attended even a polytechnic back in the days, who are refined professionals and are doing wonderfully well.
Sebi it is just public/private universities debate....you have not considered University vs Polytechnic..........all such debates and arguments are old(with experience) and baseless.
so in conclusion, go to whichever school that admits you( if your parents are rich enough, go to a private school) but wherever you find yourself, put in your very best and come out proud and shining.

You will all succeed. (sorry for the long epistle)

We are daily inundated with tales of war against insurgency in Borno and Adamawa states, at times headlines read 100 insurgents killed or 24 soldiers killed or captured. But there are hardly clips showing these realities, do we blame, the government, that hardly believes it is accountable to Nigerians and hence show it's activities or our local journalist who are hardly as adventurous as their western colleagues who record and send clips of battlefront views.

Haywhymido: n christainity in ur view isn't demonic right?When dey ur predeccessor,d crusaders forceful enter our homelands,when dey kill some n send some of our kings,emirs n obi/egwes into exile, when dey raid african countries,sold our brothers n sisters into slavery,made our sisters mistress our dia. When dey padlock dia mouth n made dey work on d plantation farm endless while our brothers n sisters grumble in pains, gnashing dia teeth in agony. Have a rethink bro, it not too late. Nobody will dare call me a moderate muslim when she/he is nt mad, do we av anything called a moderate xtian?? After what all dose who brought xtianity to africa/crusaders did to us. Am a muslim, a proud one.

So in your view it's just a pay back time. Is that what you are saying.....please educate. Let's all be careful of spreading hatred . It's really not worth it. I am a Christian and I know the history of the Crusaders and tell you worth, I condemn them.Their act had nothing to do with the Bible and God did not send them that was why they did not forcefully convert people to Christianity because it is more about political influence, money and greed. The world is advanced now, if i opt to worship a tree tomorrow, you can advise me but I must not be forced by the sword to change from my love for tree worship. And please for history sake, don't lump Crusaders with Colonial lords...their timelines and mode of operations were different.
About being a moderate Muslim...I have heard Muslims say it themselves and they mean they are not extremist like boko haram etc. If the use of the term is wrong, please educate...let us know who these extremist are and the right words for them.

Please,live and let live. Thank You.

OP. Thank you for this piece. I think our problem is lack of identity. The Scots despite 300 years in the union still hold strong to their identity,ideology and history. Can we ever be this civil in Nigeria. People saying somethings are not possible. If it's possible in the UK why not Nigeria. I seek knowledge.

Dear People, we must understand our environment very well. OP, like some people have rightly said, you must be clear on what your vision is, once you are, add passion to it. It is passion that will make you take that job and not stay on it for too long. You see, our Nigerian culture where parents still cater for children after sending them to school has not really helped us....hence we see young men and women who are 28,29,30...lounging on a couch and waiting for their dream jobs. What percentage of people started their lives with their dream jobs.......for some of us who graduated during the dark days (late military regime and early democratic regime) we know better. Thank God for the early democratic regime that brought the advent of the telecoms industry which luckily gave rise to more job creation.

When I graduated, you will count yourself lucky to get a 15k job. Some people where getting the very fantastic jobs but how many percentage were they. Yes, those who choose to stay back and not take the small offer will come and ask you who have taken for help when they want to go for their test which you are also going for.

My first job was 15k after graduation, infact it was 12k but was increased based on performance . I didn't stay there. I kept moving on, i got a multinational job along the line(because I kept applying) and was sacked..can you beat that. I still did not give up, i kept moving till i got a job with a small cleaning agency, that's like 6yrs after grad and how much was my salary....23k lol (far below what i was earning at the multinational). I still did not stop there i kept moving with passion. Now I own my company and pay salaries. I could tell you of friend that we started together...infact one with a 2.1 was working at a cybercafe (it used to be a very lucrative business back in the day)as a manager, his salary was 20k but he didn't get comfortable there(of cause he can't be). He eventually got a job with Ecobank and while we where rejoicing, he got a call for Chevron medical test one week into Ecobank mgmt training(meaning he kept applying and kept writing tests). That was how he joined Chevron and the rest is history. It may be tough but please follow your heart and passion. Have a disposition that is not overtly dependent....work with willing hands and start from somewhere, don't entertain too much of what if questions. if you start the job and its getting in your way, resign and get another...no one will take your experience from you.I know teachers(private secondary schools)who are now trainers with consulting firms....so its how far you can see..........sorry peeps for my long epistle, i could go on and on....

Cramjones abi CramKaniKayode....that your dance step.....like you are rejoicing over the number of women you have conquered abi you are high on something,,,,I really dislike hypocrites you know....all of the blame on America.
My very dear friend (Toyin) who was murdered in Gombe State by some school pupils because THEY WERE CHEATING in the name of Islam was caused by America too? Everybody is waiting for America to decide their fates yet we hate them....you are waiting for America to declare boko haram as a terrorist group when you have your own government ? OK when Nigeria's name was included in the terrorist country list didn't the government scamper for a reversal.....listen to yourself or keep quite and face your sniff as you rejoice over your conquest of women.

To the moderate muslims,thank you for being moderate but as you blame America,talk to the extremist too,they should not allow them selves to be used. I assume America knows and gave them the suras they are acting on,please give them the right ones,let them know that what they are doing is wrong.
When my friend was killed, nobody was prosecuted...nobody. I can't even remember a moderate muslim speaking against it. She was young,we all just finished serving in Lagos,she just got married with a little baby (FYI,they also attempted killing the baby) her husband got a job with FMC that was why she moved to Gombe. I remembered how we debated it and I bluntly said " I won't follow that guy if I were in her shoes" people scolded me that it's for the family sake...I was looking at it from another point of view (she was moving into a danger zone)
I could go on and on.

To the Christians, don't allow issues happening to make you a Muslim hater...its not worth it. Some Muslims are nice and i mean very nice,,,,just be cautious to befriend only the nice and good one.

Somehow, eventually, the good will conquer the evil.

What is this man saying? Anyway, have you gone for the deliverance session? Please go,it will help you a lot.

Rexxie: basket brain,u shud be da one providing answers to da above questions..or do u also assume,like ur fellow excess midday daydreamers,that da hardworking gej is also responsible for their failures?!..
@ hopelessly hating op,da so called marginalisation of da yorubas in this current dispensation shud be blamed on no one else but da yorubas,da janjaweeeed yorubas..u guys had da position of da #4 citizen zoned to u at da nass 2011 but decided to give it away for only God knows what (da same way u guys have bn giving n selling away ur birth rights n father's houses to da enemies n strangers) simply because of party affilliations..height of stuppidity! da northerners may appear n act docile n.....y'all know,but most times, when comes to certain political issues,they put party affilliations aside n rope their arsses behind 'their man' just to make sure they dont lose out..that common sense....so yall idle n jobless miserable arsses,step on it n keep blaming da hardworking gej for all ur personal,family n ancestral woes n failures n including as well,ur lost lollipops..
#GEJ TILL '19

You can never understand as you were raised in a completely different culture, we are not AGIP or hungry anything goes people. Other Nigerian groups may genuflect, kow-tow and toshiba to the powers that be because of a plate of food but not Yorubas. We operate on principle backed by long term strategy. We don't allow what we will eat today becloud the need for long range planning and investment. That is why we committed 40% of our income to human capacity development.

Imagine the strength PDP would have been pulling today in the West if they had a Yoruba speaker, but you can never understand how a people will let go any opportunity to 'chop' in Nigeria.

We are the only people that can mount opposition to the misrule of any leader and demonstrate undying love to performance, integrity and sincerity irrespective of place of origin. Need i go on?

ola6: I am from the SW and I, my family, friends and friends of the family will vote for Jonathan. Tinubu marginalised us not GEJ. The pposition of the speaker was zoned to the SW but Tinubu, because of his greed and never ending quest for power voted against it so as to make himself the most powerful man in the SW and prevent a rally point for the SW at the center.


You APC asslickers don't know what is coming to you. Just watch out....and btw, tell the master rigger Aregbesola to start packing his load...

You cannot be a true Westerner, we don't accept tokenism by ' calling a goat brother because we want to eat meat'

Of what benefit is a speaker position in opposition hands to westerners when with proper alliances we can have the presidency on our side and occupy it in a few years. With PDP we will have to wait for the next 20 years.

A westerner PDP speaker at this time will only serve him/herself and Jonathan and will do nothing for us than serve as rallying point for the evil PDP, we don't have such short memory.

BTW what did speaker Bankole achieve for the West apart from going to exchange blow with Gbenga Daniel on the uncompleted Sango-Ota bridge?

Dear Brother Ademusiwa, may the good Lord help and heal you. It is well with you.

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3Dimension: Our problems are not imported They are made in Nigeria

Kokoro tin jefo idi efo lowa

11years!!!!

Including 5 years of Jonathan go-slow

Afam4eva: I think Tinubu's reply is commonsensical. How can anyone habour such thoughts. If Ribadu was actually sold out, how did it influence the voters at the polling booth? My assertion on the issue of Ribadu is that APC did not give his candidacy enough support. It seemed as though they were not ready to win the election at that time or they knew they were not going to win. What surprised me the most actually was the choice of Ribadu more than anything else.

Most people lost interest when the alliance talks with CPC/Buhari failed and out of the 15 million registered voters in the SW, less than 3 million voted in the elections

bright8: That is the problem with APC members and supporters. Quick to abuse and term someone as ‘irrelevant’ to the ‘APC cause’. Empires and emperors have been annihilated by peasants. Don’t underestimate anybody has been my philosophy. A little can make a difference.

How is it a problem for APC? but what did PDP and supporters say when 5 governors left?

I think they will grant them the right to school sha. I have no beef,i think it's ok. I am sure they would learnt not to televise deliverance sessions now. If you have been to deliverance sessions, what happened in that video is not far fetched. At least in Nigeria.....it's not a crime per say.

nikky5: Though I am not a member of his church but I have my respect for him as a servant of the Lord.The enemy strucked to shatter his home and ministry.Anita made a big mistake that she will one day regret her action.I wonder if she is a true child of God. I wonder if she ever knew the Lord.I wonder if she ever imagined the pain and destruction she has brought to the ministry of her husband.I enjoin all christians to pray for this man of God. Please pray for him. He is our brother. If you judge him one day you also will be judged.

Oga..and they should not pray for Anita. Why didn't you wonder if the husband was truly born again? Is Anita not our sister. Why can't we pray for the two of them, why put the blame on Anita? As far as I am concerned,we all don't know the truth about this story except for what we glean from newspapers. If you are a christian,genuine one,the you should pray for the two of them...remember in this race,there is neither male nor female.

Philipmems: I am not a member of his denomination but having heard from both parties I will live you to be the judge considering what women and men are capable of doing.. Pastor Chris O. accused his wife of having bad friends who are influencing her wrongly, she no longer respects anyone especially in the church. He even said that at one time he called the wife so they can settle there differences but she refused to take anything short of a Divorce from the pastor.
Anita is accusing Chris of adultery and infidelity.
At the end of the day my take is that Satan master confusionist has crept into their home either through the man or the woman but wait oh even if its adultery as speculated what happened to our women of steel (1 peter 3:1-3), for better for worse, our mothers stuck to our fathers through thick and thin, never to be distracted by side chicks... Frankly speaking the easiest way for confusion to enter a home na through woman... After all according to the book of Timothy it says a woman was deceive first before Adams.
Read 1 peter 3:1-6 and 1 Corinthians 7:1- 12 especially 10 and 11 and understand that the woman has more role to play in keeping her home together and if it fails shes mainly to be blamed.

Sowie,your mothers that stuck with your fathers were very unhappy.Time has changed dear,it has. Even a woman whose religion permits the man to marry more that one wife does not want him to. Back in times,some women will even pick a girl for their husbands to marry and the men were doing well in subjecting the women into second class roles and they were enjoying it. Change caught up with it and some parties don't want to change.They still expects their wives to stay and put up while they sleep around and sometimes beat them. That is not acceptable anymore,so I think we should all accept that and move on. The end of the world is coming and whether we like it or not,na so e go dey scatter go. Everyone who wants peace should wake up and stop living in yesterday.