Re: IMPORTANT FMS INFO/.Evelyn

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Great information. Unfortunately I do not think that is my problem

although I do have fibro. The first year I lived in Indiana one of my

thyroid glands grew a benign tumor and it had to be removed. I didn't need

any medication after that but I have had my thyroid tested since. The

range is not anything my doctor worries about and it is not on the high

range but normal. I will hold onto this e-mail however because one just

never knows what can happen in the future. For instance after 13 years of

chronic pain and I got my official diagnosis of fibro last year.

Christy

> wrote:

http://www.drwells.net/nutrition/topics/Hypothyroid.htm

[Guest guest]

Hi Christy,

Thanks for your reply. I'm so glad your thyroid tumour was benign. Before

surgery, did the tumour have an affect on the thyroid production? Following the

surgery, did your doctor explain to you in what way the remaining thyroid would

function? I've never thought about it before in the way that if 1/2 the organ

is gone does the other half just carry on as though both parts of the whole were

there. I'm sure once you have surgery like that your thyroid will be watched

closely.

I'm sorry that you have suffered for such a long time too. I've often wished

that I'd not been diagnosed, but when one is sick and in pain they want an

answer to what is wrong with them. Over the years I'd automatically tell a

doctor that I had FMS then I notice I was treated differently than I was prior

to having the label attached to me. Now, if something is wrong and I'm with a

doctor other than my regular G.P. it's the last thing I tell him because I want

to be looked at simply as a patient without a label and not have a predetermined

diagnosis on me or hear " ya it sucks, that's FMS). It has paid off a number of

times when the doctor found something that was not automatically a symptom of

FMS, but an illness of its own.

I hope you continue to feel well with your thyroid and I have empathy for you

with you FMS suffering.

I wish you some pain-free days for sure.

> Christy wrote:

> The range is not anything my doctor worries about and it is not on the high

range but normal.