Docs disagreeing with each other :-/

[Freaked]

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.

[aggiecuttler]

oh this is not helpful as to be referred to a specialist who knows there onions and can be of more help, good luck and blessings

[Freaked]

Thanks, aggiecuttler. Tell me about it; I'm afraid that between all the different specialists referring me on to other specialists and the 'hmm that is odd. Get that looked at again, but I don't think it could be connected to X' that they'll miss something big or something that could at least help me.

[Ccat]

Hi freaked

there is a forum on:-

www.thyroid-disease.org.uk-

the people on there seem really helpful - you should have a look.

best wishes, ccat x

[Freaked]

Thanks, Ccat; I'll check that out. I don't know exactly how my thyroid fits into everything, but I'm starting to feel my root problem may well be autoimmune, considering it did start with a bad flu thing. I just wish docs would look into stuff more, instead of dealing just with their little area and making no attempts to find a cause that ties things together. I keep getting told I have a problem 'affecting X, but not coming from X. €200 please'. Sigh.