Guest guest Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 She said she will follow me every month through pregnancy. She will call me with my test results. I hope I have found a Dr with a brain!! LOL I just had to share my appt with someone who could understand why I'm excited! So, now I'm going to be impatiently waiting for a call from her! I hope everyone has a great day! TTFN JUST AWESOME NEWS! Not that your thyroid looked horrible but that you have found a Dr. who will listen! I am very excited and happy for you! Sounds like you are on the road to gettting some answers! If I remember correctly the anitbody test for me took almost a week. Hope your results come in faster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 Sounds like you have found a good endo,!Also--great that you were able to be proactive and showing that you have studied and were prepared! Hugs, ThyroFeisty(Feisty)www.thyrophoenix.com New Endo > I'm pregnant with HyperT and Toxic Multinodular Goiter. I posted > once before. I finally saw my new Endo. She is very young and seems > to have a drive to get to the root of the problem! She really took > her time with me, almost 2 hours! We discussed my history. I told > her my previous Endo totally dismissed the idea of me having thyroid > autoimmune disease. That he wouldn't even run the blood work to rule > it out. I told her that Elaine suggested we do the TSI and > TGI. She hesitated with a response and then said, yes we'll do > that. After palpitating my thyroid, she was even more confused by my > diagnosis. She said my thyroid felt like it could be a Graves > thyroid. She was unable to tell where the dominant nodule began and > ended. She said it seemed my whole right lobe was very enlarged. > So, she decided she wanted to do an ultrasound! We spent 30 minutes > doing u/s! The dominant nodule is very cystic and about 3cm. Just > above it is the calcified nodule, but they run into one another. Very > strange to see this. There are a few other nodules on the right > lobe, but they were all too small to bother measuring. I also have a > 6mm nodule on the left lobe. After she finished the scan, she looked > at the print out and said that there is a lot of graininess. Which > would suggest autoimmune disease. She said she will definitely run > the antibodies tests. She said she will follow me every month > through pregnancy. She will call me with my test results. I hope I > have found a Dr with a brain!! LOL I just had to share my appt with > someone who could understand why I'm excited! So, now I'm going > to be impatiently waiting for a call from her! I hope everyone has a > great day! TTFN> > ~ > 26w2d> EDD 10/19/04> Proud wife to a United States Marine> Mom to:> n 8/19/00> Trinity 7/29/02> Two ^i^ in heaven> > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 > JUST AWESOME NEWS! Not that your thyroid looked horrible but that you have > found a Dr. who will listen! I am very excited and happy for you! Sounds like > you are on the road to gettting some answers! If I remember correctly the > anitbody test for me took almost a week. Hope your results come in faster. > Thank you, . Hopefully it won't take a week. But, that sounds typical, so I'm sure it will. TTFN ~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 2004 Report Share Posted July 15, 2004 I sure hope I have! I guess time will say for sure! Thanks!! > Sounds like you have found a good endo,!Also--great that you were able to be proactive and showing that you have studied and were prepared! > Hugs, > ThyroFeisty(Feisty) > www.thyrophoenix.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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