Re: Endocrinologist-Michele

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>> I have not been to an endocrinologist in years, but after rdg some

>> of the posts on thyroid, should I go. Help please.

>> Michele

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> Michele,

You can get your primary care physician to do a thyroid panel

with all three tests, metabolic panel, estrogen levels, and

other tests revelent if you feel more comfortable with them and then

they can refer you to the endocrinologist or specialists

needed depending on the results of your tests. Make sure you do more

than a TSH as it does not reflect the function of a

thyroid.

Endrocrineweb.md is a good website and relates that the complete

panel is includes rT3, T3, T3/rT3 ratio, T4, and TSH.

My symptoms were not consistent with hypothyroidism as I was losing

weight because I could not swallow because of all the small nodules

in my thyroid and my TSH was not that low.

It was not until I could not breath, had tremors, a small

stroke, that the doctors took it seriously. My thyroid was so scarred

and stuck to the sides

of my larynx and I had a benign mass.

I really am not an alarmist but please take care of your lab

tests and deficiencies if you have them as pain is increased when you

have them.

Good luck and let us know what you find out. Bennie

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