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Originally Posted by cfrizz
Totally agree, it's always better to test to POSITIVELY rule out something then for some damn doctor to THINK you don't have something because you're whatever....! Insist or get a doctor who has YOUR best interests in mind.
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Agreed. I have autoimmune thyroiditis (often referred to as Hashimoto's). I sort of knew something was screwy when I was eating lettuce with vinegar at meals and still gaining weight
Autoimmune disorders are incredibly common and often genetic - once I started doing family research on these types of disorders, I realized they are on both sides of my family - on my father's side, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, on my mother's autoimmune thyroiditis and rheumatoid arthritis. Once you have one autoimmune disorder, you're statistically far more likely to develop another.
If your doctor did an ANA (anti-nuclear antibodies) test, that would be a good starting point.
Just my 2 cents.
