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Elder
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Naperville IL
Posts: 5,169
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Elder
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Naperville IL
Posts: 5,169
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My pcp has me checked every few months. the numbers have been going up and down for almost 2 years now...that's why she sent me to an endocrinologist. The endocrinologist had an ultrasound done of the thyroid...it is asymmetrical. On examintation, she said it felt like a "typical" MS thryoid...not hard, but not symmetrical. She had the pcp do the testing and said see her yearly, but this is really beginning to affect my quality of life. My face is swollen, my hair is brittle and thinning, my nails are so thing (the manicurist said people with thyroid issues never have healthy nails), and even though I'm on a weight loss regimen I'm not being successful. And I also read that it can affect your joints, which have been bothering me quite a bit since Christmas.
But the fatigue, which I've been blaming on MS, is so up and down the last month that I am sure it's my thyroid.
In the research I read on Hashimoto's, it stated that the thyroid can occasionally "kick on", produce increased hormone, and that is why the numbers flucuate.
I will have a long talk with the specialist when I see her...we need to nip this in the bud.
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