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Had total thyroidectomy 4 weeks ago. rai treatment 2 days ago. woke up this morning with pain at my incision site. is this normal? no pain before

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NO. call the surgeon: Pain at an incision site is never good. Get it checked out soon.

Answered 9/10/2013

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