News about Davina McCall

[TiggerMe]

All over the news today!

As a fellow hypo when you look at the symptoms of a colloid cyst it does make you wonder if there is any connection 😕

Though she had no symptoms

( Wiki may not be the most reliable source)... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collo...

[arTistapple]

Yes.

[helvella]

Davina is said to have a 14mm colloid cyst.

The rest of this is a direct reply to TiggerMe's specific point about relationship between colloid cyst and thyroid issues. Not Davina in particular.

The paper linked below is about an extremely rare form of colloid cyst (that is rare even within the rareness of colloid cysts) which affected the person's pituitary - a sellar colloid cyst. This is relevant to our thyroid context, is a recent paper (2023), and adds some contextual background - and is open access.

Sella turcica

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sella...

Davina has been remarkably open (which is very welcome) but I have not noticed detail such as exactly where it was found.

Obviously we could speculate on how a sellar colloid cyst might interact with thyroid management (primarily TSH secretion) and other pituitary hormones.

Note that the paper includes photographs taken within the operation. If you want to avoid those, do not follow the link.

Sellar colloid cyst: Peculiar radiological characteristics of a common lesion at an uncommon location.

europepmc.org/article/MED/3...

[TiggerMe Ambassador in reply to helvella]

Many things are classed as rare but then if you don't go looking... it was shear fluke that she happened to have a brain scan as part of filming for a menopause programme which might well have saved her life 😳

p.s. I shall save your link until after breakfast 😏

[helvella in reply to TiggerMe]

Agreed. Rare things happen. Otherwise they wouldn't be rare they'd be nevers (or never knowinglies - the John Lewis version).

[RedApple in reply to TiggerMe]

'classed as rare but then if you don't go looking... ' Exactly! Scary thought 😧