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» elysia2006 - Hashimoto's -- no antibodies? Hyper symptoms?

Thank you for your response!

I am in France, so I don't know if I translated the pathology report correctly. The pathologist is apparently one of the best in France, according to my endo. The report says:

"The slides are populated with mature small and large lymphocytes accompanied by immunoblasts."

The report says the "sample evokes in the first place a Hashimoto thyroid".

Also, my blood tests have never been hypothyroid....at least not that I know of. All of my TSH tests have been 1. I have been living in Europe for 20 years and don't eat fast food etc and in fact, my endo told me here, there is a lack of iodine in the food in general over here. I don't eat soy or any of the other foods you mentioned. And, I do not take any medications (nor have I).

Your idea is interesting--that a nodule is producing the extra hormone...and canceling out the hypo...but, how would they test for this definitively--an uptake scan? And, I wonder why neither doctor is suggesting this could be the problem? One of my nodules (the large one) is primarily fluid, so that couldn't be the problem, right? The other is 2 cm and primarily solid.

Thanks for your thoughts.

-- posted by elysia2006