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Originally Posted by JNCalif
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.  |
I also have autoimmune/Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and before I was diagnosed I had to INSIST on being tested. And it needs to be the test for the antibodies. My thyroid hormone function tests that my general doctor would have done always came back fine, but my thyroid was blowing itself out meeting those normal levels and I developed a goiter in my early 20s.
You have to insist sometimes with doctors. I'm not saying have a lot of unnecessary tests done or go off the deep end with research, but doctors only see you for a few minutes and may only have a brief description of your symptoms. They don't experience the symptoms 24/7 like you do. So yeah, sometimes you just have to insist on somethings.