Hashimoto and lung noudles

[Gal_Ka]

My recent CT scan shows 2 small lung noudles. I have read somewhere that your autoimmune condition can cause it. If anyone has similar condition please share as I am on the crossroads. I was suggested by the NHS to have a bronchoscopia done to investigate the cause of those noudles. They keep talking about infection/inflammation/tuberculosis etc as the cause and not mention my Hashimoto/autoimmune at all.

[Framboise]

This is very interesting Gall_Ka. I had a shoulder MRI last year which found problems in my lungs and I was referred to a respiratory specialist, who did more tests and found similar - scarring, inflammation and a nodule, incorrect breathing and probable small airway obstruction and then went on at length about tuberculosis, bronchitis, working with asbestos, visiting Chernobyl etc. He asked about autoimmune conditions but wasn't very interested in my thyroid, he wanted to know if I had Lupus or rheumatoid arthritis etc, which I don't have. None of this makes any sense to me because I'm not aware of breathing problems nor have I had any obvious lung infections in the past.

He's monitoring the nodule with another CT scan in June which will be 9 months since the last one, and said if it had altered he'd arrange a PET scan, and then if necessary a biopsy. If this could be connected with a thyroid problem, even if mine isn't supposed to be auto-immune, that makes far more sense to me than that at some time in the past I had a serious infection which I didn't notice!

I'll be very interested to see what other replies you get, if others have had the same thing happen and to know how you get on. Good luck

[Lynneypin]

Wow, this is interesting! Yes I’ve got this too. After the original scan they wanted to do a bronchoscopy and talked about long term antibiotics, which I didn’t want. I’ve been on a lot in my life. So I resisted and then had another ct scan a couple of years later which showed the nodules were no worse so they put it down to the effects of long term asthma. I have to cough up gunk every day. They had originally mentioned a cousin of tb but no mention of my Hashimotos.