Hi Daisy,

I too am surprised if you tested positive for thyroiditis that the rheumy is not treating it. There have been some research that says that even if your thryoid levels are within the normal range that patients benefit from being treated with thryoid hormone.

Basically with thryoiditis your thyroid is being destroyed. The enlargement is called a goiter. I had both.

Do you have a copy of your blood tests. If no make sure you get them and you will learn to follow it and how your body feels.

Make sure the rheumy did all of the thryoid antibodies tests as well as TSH , Free T4 and Free T3.

Rheumy is a fine doc for many autoimmune things but I think you should also see an endocrinologist for the thyroid part. The range of normal changed in the last few years and not all docs are up on this since it is an endocrine speciality.