Hashimoto's Disease
Just got diagnosed with Hashimoto's Disease. Anyone else have this? cts
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larry barnhart wrote:wny_pat wrote:covetsthesun wrote:Examining the thyroid - you best have a Endocrinologist!!!
How do you know what's going on without physically examining the thyroid?
After a few years of weird problems my wife and I drove over the mountain's to Seattle's Virginia Mason hospital. In an instant the doc knew what it was. Hashimoto's Disease. This was in 1979 and thyroid cancer arrived in 1983 so the thyroid was removed.
All good since 1983.
chevman
How did the doctor know "in an instant"? I have no outward signs of enlarged thyroid etc. I have had dry skin during the winter for years... and low thyroid markers on my blood work...but not too low. I don't feel sluggish... what weight gain I had (and lost eventually) was from eating too much. My hair is thinner now.
The Hashi antibody markers are around 300 and above 20 is high. So something is up.
Did your doc say that Hashi causes thyroid cancer? Is that always the case??
cts
