I was just diagnosed with multiple goiters

[Sandalsforever]

hello, I have never had any thyroid issues in my life until my doctor felt my neck and said -you have goiters- I got an ultrasound and I have multiple goiters on both sides of my neck. My blood work is in the low end of normal, but now I will be seeing an endocrinologist next week. I am menopausal and on hormone replacement therapy. Has anyone here been estrogen dominant and gotten goiters? I have heard that is possible. What have you done to shrink them?

TSH mIU/L.

.92 normal range .4-4.5

T4, free NG/dL

1.1 normal range .8-1.8

T3, free pg/mL

3 normal range 2.3-4.2

[SlowDragon Administrator]

welcome to the forum

Was test done early morning for highest TSH

FT4: 1.1 pmol/l (Range 0.8 - 1.8)

Ft4 only 30.00% through range

FT3: 3 pmol/l (Range 2.3 - 4.2)

Ft3 only 36.84% through range

Next step

Retest again in another 6-8 weeks

You also need thyroid antibodies tested

Thyroid Peroxidase (TPO) and Thyroglobulin Antibodies (TG)

Plus vitamin D, folate, ferritin and B12

About 90% of primary hypothyroidism is autoimmune thyroid disease, usually diagnosed by high thyroid antibodies 

Autoimmune thyroid disease with goitre is Hashimoto’s

Autoimmune thyroid disease without goitre is Ord’s thyroiditis. 

Both are autoimmune and generally called Hashimoto’s.

Low vitamin levels are extremely common when hypothyroid, especially with autoimmune thyroid disease 

20% of autoimmune thyroid patients never have high thyroid antibodies and ultrasound scan of thyroid can aid diagnosis 

Oestrogen dominance and Hashimoto’s

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[Sandalsforever in reply to SlowDragon]

thank you slow dragon, the test was done around 10 AM. I had not eaten anything before the test of that matters. My vitamin D is low. But have not had the others tested. I was reading about Hashimoto’s disease and the main thing that I see as different as I am always hot. I am never cold. Everything else kind of has up to that but I know that being cold is a very key factor of Hashimoto’s.

[SlowDragon Administrator in reply to Sandalsforever]

Significant minority of Hashimoto’s patients feel too hot …or have poor temperature control and swing from hot to cold