I am writing to ask if you can have a sore thyroid without significant enlargement and with 'normal' bloods?
I have had 'normal' bloods, it doesn't seem visually enlarged, though I feel like I am being strangled and have audible sounds when I swallow in my ears. When I move my head something feels like it is clicking over the edge of it (maybe the muscle bands on on neck).
This began after covid vaccine. I had long covid and had my first vaccines but the last ones I noticed new symptoms within a week of them. Dose 3, was tingling, does 4 was 'globus', tingling, and Malaise. They put me on PPI, H2, and antacids (at the same time) and then my b12 went low, so now I am under b12 treatment.
My hormones have been all over the place. Had breast tenderness after 8 months of stomach meds, and then my symptoms went into hell - neuro symptoms, cold, parasynthesia, headaches, fatigue, rashes, dryness everywhere. Tried HRT because my mum had early menopause, and that helped with my moods but not my symptoms, and my period hasn't regulated. Looking into oestrogen dominance, as low b12 can sometimes not get rid of excess oesteogen i have read yesterday. I have been told to wean off hrt, so I feel more down, and I have heigthened b12 symtpoms while undergoing the first parts of treatment. A phenomena called 'reversing out' I am told. My symptoms can feel worse at ovulation and just before my period. I don't know if that is because my body is using energy that I don't have, or their is a thyroid issue, I have no idea what is going on.
I am 35. Used to study at a high level, work and run over mountain ranges. Now debilitated within a year.
I don't have the numbers for my thyroid bloods handy. But I will request these.
I am wondering- can you have a sore thyroid? That feels like it is choking you? But it doesn't look swollen? With normal bloods...
I had an MRI of head and neck, and they found nothing. Thyroid bloods in normal range. And calcium seemed to be in normal range...
I feel like I cannot live this way.
In pain, my mouth also feels sore, mucosa has been affected in throat and lower down, as well as eyes, and other places.
Dryness, neuro symptoms, pain, muscle aches, anxiety like I've never know it before, headaches, cold extremities, tingking and numbness feelings, Malaise, fatigue, palpitations, muscle twitches, the works!
Could my thyroid be involved? And could there be a swelling that an mri could miss?
My neck is pretty thin, so any change will feel like choking for me.
Had an US early in this process, analysed by an ultrasound tech, not a Dr... she said my thyroid was "very large for my neck" but didn't rate it... I don't think she was able to analyse it like that, it wasn't like an NHS place or anything. I was desperate.
Could an MRI miss this?
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I am on eod si injections for b12 (only 3 weeks in) feel very ill after starting, neuro, anxiety, some intermittent palpitations, and nausea.
Off PPI etc since the big crash of September last year.
Folate 5mg with injection, d3 and k2, iron infusion 3 weeks ago for borderline ferritin.
Almost off HRT... very hard adjusting.
I've asked the surgery for thyroid numbers.
And I'm going to ask my gp tomorrow for a thyroid ultrasound on NHS, and say about the last who did the one before saying it looked "enlarged" for the size of my neck, and to "investigate further"...
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