anyone know anything about......

[mandy72]

Atrophic Thyroiditis

it was suggested i had that on a face book hashimotos page where my antibodies are normal yet i had a small thyroid on scan

im totally confused by all of this

[Clutter]

Mandy, the usual course of Hashimoto's is that the thyroid becomes slightly enlarged and tender when attacked but eventually as cells are destroyed it atrophies until it is so small that the thyroid is unable to produce sufficient hormone.

If you had higher antibodies in the past they may have reduced because the Hashi attacks stopped when your own thyroid function was suppressed due to the thyroid gland failing and/or because you are taking suppressive doses of thyroid replacement.

Post thyroidectomy my Hashi attacks stopped (thank goodness) because there was no longer a thyroid target. Post RAI I have no antibodies.

[mandy72 in reply to Clutter]

thank you clutter

i did google it and from what i understood it came after the hashis

even at the time of scan being told i had a small thyroid i was never ever offered an antibodies test

does the treatment stay the same?

[Clutter in reply to mandy72]

Mandy, they treat the hypothyroidism that Hashi causes not the autoimmune disease.

It is possible that you never had Hashimoto's if you were never tested and you may have been born with a small thyroid gland, or it has been atropied by the high TSH you had which was flogging the thyroid to produce more hormone.

[mandy72]

i did have high CRP last January

c-reactive protein .....11.8 mg/l <6 high

could that have been when my antibodies were possibly high?

TSH 6......6.0 0.35-6.9, on the same blood test

[helvella Administrator]

Originally the term Hashimoto's was restricted to those with some degree of goitre. The term Ord's Thyrioditis was sometimes applied to those without any goitre. Apparently the lack of a goitre is more common in those with northern European genes.

You almost never see reference to Ord's these days, and Hashimoto's is applied freely without need for a goitre. But some doctors seem to prefer to stick to the term Autoimmune Thyroid Disease - especially if there is no goitre.

Regardless of the name, the thyroid usually eventually gets smaller.

[mandy72 in reply to helvella]

i think ill stick to my name for it

shriveled screwed up thyroid