Please contact us with any specific questions. After your thyroidectomy or thyroid lobectomy, you may have a temporary sore throat, neck pain, difficulty swallowing or a weak voice. Your diet will be restricted for the evening of your surgery, but in most cases, it can return to normal the next day. Before you leave the hospital, we'll schedule a follow-up appointment, give instructions for your at-home recovery and go over any prescribed medications.
Most people are ready to return home within one day of surgery, but take off about two weeks from work to recover. You'll need to refrain from heavy lifting or other tasks that can strain your neck for up to three weeks after your surgery. Soaking or scrubbing the site of your incision is also discouraged for at least one week to allow it time to properly heal. Showering is generally allowed after about one day. Pain at the site of your incision will improve after a few days but may continue for a week or so.
Stop taking vitamin E, multivitamins, herbal remedies, and other dietary supplements 7 days before your surgery. These things can cause bleeding. For more information, read the resource Herbal Remedies and Cancer Treatment. These medications can cause bleeding. A staff member from the Admitting Office will call you after pm the day before your surgery. The staff member will tell you what time to arrive at the hospital for your surgery. This includes hard candy and gum. Do not drink anything else.
Do not drink anything starting 2 hours before your scheduled arrival time. This includes water. If your healthcare provider told you to take certain medications the morning of your surgery, take only those medications with a sip of water. Depending on what medications you take, this may be all, some, or none of your usual morning medications.
Many staff members will ask you to say and spell your name and birth date. This is for your safety. People with the same or a similar name may be having surgery on the same day. Tell them the dose of any medications you took after midnight including prescription and over-the-counter medications, patches, and creams and the time you took them. Your nurse may place an intravenous IV line in one of your veins, usually in your arm or hand. A member of the operating room team will help you onto the operating bed and place compression boots on your lower legs.
These gently inflate and deflate to help blood flow in your legs. Once your surgery is finished, your incision will be closed with sutures stitches. The information in this section will tell you what to expect after your surgery, both during your hospital stay and after you leave the hospital.
A nurse will be keeping track of your body temperature, pulse, blood pressure, and oxygen levels. You may be getting oxygen through a thin tube that rests below your nose or a mask that covers your nose and mouth. You may also have a drain in your neck under your incision. Most people stay in the hospital for 1 night.
Your nurses and other healthcare providers will teach you how to care for yourself as you recover from your surgery. Your healthcare providers will ask you about your pain often and give you medication as needed. Controlling your pain will help you recover better. Talk with your healthcare provider about possible side effects and when you should start switching to over-the-counter pain medications.
Moving around and walking will help lower your risk for blood clots and pneumonia lung infection. It will also help you start passing gas and having bowel movements pooping again. Your nurse, physical therapist, or occupational therapist will help you move around, if needed.
Read the resource Call! Don't Fall! This will help your lungs expand, which helps prevent pneumonia. You can start having ice chips and liquids several hours after your surgery. Your healthcare providers will check your blood calcium level after your surgery and give you a calcium supplement if needed. You may need to take this supplement for a few weeks until your parathyroid glands start working like usual.
Tell one of your healthcare providers if you have numbness and tingling in your hands, feet, and around your mouth. These are signs that your blood calcium level is low. Your nurse will teach you how to care for your incision before you leave the hospital.
Before you leave, look at your incision with one of your healthcare providers. Knowing what it looks like will help you notice any changes later. Leave them in place until your first appointment after surgery. Your healthcare provider will check them during this visit. These questions are known as your Recovery Tracker. Fill out your Recovery Tracker every day before midnight am.
It only takes 2 to 3 minutes to complete. For more information, read the resource About Your Recovery Tracker. People have pain or discomfort for different lengths of time.
You may still have some pain when you go home. Some prescription pain medications such as opioids may cause constipation having fewer bowel movements than usual. You can shower 24 hours 1 day after your surgical drain is removed. Let the water run over your incision. Gently pat your incision dry with a clean towel or wash cloth. Call your healthcare provider if you see any redness or drainage from your incision.
You may feel tightness along your incision as it heals. This feeling can come and go. In Tampa, the trends of infections and hospitalizations continue to decrease and become more and more favorable and we continue to take every precaution possible.
We screen every patient for the virus and since we only perform thyroid operations, all of our patients are either out-patient or a minimal stay in an isolated non-Covid 19 unit in the hospital.
All our surgeons and nurses have been vaccinated. We take very special measures to protect our patients from the general population of our hospital and continue to make this the safest place in the US to have your operation.
FAA regulations for air quality are more stringent than even the operating rooms which we work. We are caring for patients from around the world. Traveling on airplanes is safe and continue to wear your masks on airplanes and throughout your exposure to any other individuals.
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This is part of our tremendous growth plans which include a partnership with Hospital Corporation of American to build a new hospital in Tampa, The Hospital for Endocrine Surgery. These monitors include a blood pressure cuff on your arm and heart-monitor leads attached to your chest.
Once you're unconscious, the surgeon makes a cut incision low in the center of your neck. It can often be placed in a skin crease where it will be difficult to see after the incision heals. All or part of the thyroid gland is then removed, depending on the reason for the surgery. If you're having thyroidectomy as a result of thyroid cancer, the surgeon may also examine and remove lymph nodes around your thyroid. Thyroidectomy usually takes one to two hours.
It may take more or less time, depending on the extent of the surgery needed. After surgery, you're moved to a recovery room where the health care team monitors your recovery from the surgery and anesthesia. Once you're fully conscious, you'll be moved to a hospital room. Some people may need to have a drain placed under the incision in the neck. This drain is usually removed the morning after surgery.
After thyroidectomy, a few people may experience neck pain and a hoarse or weak voice. This doesn't necessarily mean there's permanent damage to the nerve that controls the vocal cords.
These symptoms are often short-term and may be due to irritation from the breathing tube that's inserted into the windpipe during surgery, or be a result of nerve irritation caused by the surgery. You'll be able to eat and drink as usual after surgery.
Depending on the type of surgery you had, you may be able to go home the day of your procedure or your doctor may recommend that you stay overnight in the hospital. When you go home, you can usually return to your regular activities. Wait at least 10 days to two weeks before doing anything vigorous, such as heavy lifting or strenuous sports.
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