I had a really pointless ENT appointment today. I was just wondering if it's normal to be referred to an ENT when you are initially diagnosed with hypothyroidism?
I was diagnosed in march and had high very antibodies alongside usual hypothyroidism indicators. I had a scan of my neck in july and the lady confirmed my thyroid was inflamed as she did it.
In between then and now I've mostly figured everything out myself with this forum, and pretty much got myself to I would say 75% what I used to be.
When I received the ENT letter I nearly cancelled it because I didn't see what they could do for me. But my mum told me never cancel an NHS appointment, you never know when you'll get one again. But then the ENT guy just asked me if I'd had a diagnosis from my gp, so I said I have hashimotos. He disputed that because my gp hasn't officially diagnosed it. Fair enough, though privately I was thinking, come on, I'll be here till the twelfth of never waiting for my gp to do that. I've done my research, I know what it is. My antibodies never go below 500 and I've been slowing down steadily for the past three years. So he decided to lecture me about how i may actually have graves disease.
Pretty sure I'd have noticed a hyper phase at some point in my life so far! I've just been on a classic slowdown for at least three years with zero bumps upwards.
He then told me he couldn't help me because he's a surgeon and I need an endocrinologist to help me. He's not wrong, but thankfully I had seen an endocrinologist privately prior to this (I'm not THAT patient).
Is ENT a standard referral for hypothyroidism patients?