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Originally Posted by Debbie D
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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You might want to try a new endocrinologist. As mentioned previously, I started Hyperthroid (Graves) producing too many throid hormones. I had no idea what was wrong with me. My PCP added throid without my knowledge in a general blood test. The doctor called me up and asked me if I knew I had Graves Disease (hyperthroid). Luckily got to a good endo, who also is an internist. he treated me a couple of years with the Tapazole and the I went into remission.
Because of blood work ever 4 - 6 months, it was caught right away when I became hypothroid and started with Synthroid. Dose had been adjusted a couple of times and for the past couple of years am on the same dose with no more up and downs. Again, I was lucky to get to the right endo who really is treating my throid disease. Once you have the disease, it is with you for life. Correct treatment can keep in level. This up and down is not good for you or anyone that comes in your path. I know when I had too much of the throid hormone; the anxiety, irritability, hair loss, etc. was not good. I do so understand what you are going through. Wish you all the best.
(Ger)