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All of you on this forum have impressed me with your knowledge, especially now

that I've had more testing done, and found out I have Hashimoto's. My

antibiodies were sky high. If I remember right, he said they were over 800. He

is sending all the results here, so I should have them next week. Fortunately

for me, the biopsy came back benign.

You knew all along that there was something more than an underactive thyroid,

and you were right.

I was very impressed by the Mayo Clinic. The blood was taken on Monday. I saw

the endocrinologist on Tuesday, and he apologized because he had tried, but had

been unable to schedule the biopsy for the same day as my appointment with him.

He spent over an hour with me, explaining things and answering my questions.

Wednesday I had the biopsy, and the doctor called me himself with the results

right after he saw his last patient. It was just after 5 PM when he called with

the good news.

The only thing that wasn't clear is why I have swelling behind the collar bone,

at the base of my neck, on both sides. When I asked the doctor if the swelling

increased the chance there was a malignancy, he said no because he couldn't feel

any swollen lymph nodes under the swelling. When I asked him if he had seen

swelling there before he said, " Oh maybe a time or two. " Huh? He said problems

with the thyroid can cause swelling, that I should watch it, and if it gets

bigger, see my doctor here. He seemed unconcerned about it.

He also said I should decrease the dose of Levothyroxin to 1/2 a pill, and go

back for blood work in six weeks, because the TSH was too low and I was too

hyper taking a whole pill. This should be interesting, because my doctor here

told me to go back for more bloodwork in six months, not six weeks.

Thank God for valet parking! It was in the mid-twenties in ville, and

there was ice on my windshield! The charge was $4. I would have gladly paid

much more! Each time a gave them a five dollar bill, they tried to return the

change. I would have paid a lot more than $5 to avoid walking in that bitter

cold. At least it's bitter cold for FL.

Thanks again for all the feedback, help, and support from everyone here.

Barb