Freaked
11-07-13, 20:28
So, I've had some...conflicting and disturbing medical advice lately. I asked one doc about my concerns about heart probs, and told him my history and all the tests I'd had done, and he said he would share my concerns and if i was his patient he'd put a thirty-day monitor on me :unsure: Other docs said completely different things.
Then I had an endocrinologist appointment, and he said I had a goitre (enlarged thyroid glands). So he's testing me for hashimotos disease, which my mom has, though her thyroid apparently felt fine. He said that it wouldn't be causing my symps anyway, but when i looked up hashimotos it did in fact include a lot of my symps, including really random ones. Later I asked docs if hashimotos would be possible without abnormal thyroid-stimulating-hormone levels; two said yes, one said no (he was just wrong apparently).
This has happened to me throughout my illness. Docs at one hospital say one thing, another hospital another thing, different consultants different things (that I often find contradicted in more recent studies or by younger doctors).
It makes it a lot harder to ever be reassured, and meanwhile I'm still trapped at home very sick.
Then I had an endocrinologist appointment, and he said I had a goitre (enlarged thyroid glands). So he's testing me for hashimotos disease, which my mom has, though her thyroid apparently felt fine. He said that it wouldn't be causing my symps anyway, but when i looked up hashimotos it did in fact include a lot of my symps, including really random ones. Later I asked docs if hashimotos would be possible without abnormal thyroid-stimulating-hormone levels; two said yes, one said no (he was just wrong apparently).
This has happened to me throughout my illness. Docs at one hospital say one thing, another hospital another thing, different consultants different things (that I often find contradicted in more recent studies or by younger doctors).
It makes it a lot harder to ever be reassured, and meanwhile I'm still trapped at home very sick.