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Thanks so much for the helpful replies to my desperate-dressmaker-search post - very sensible suggestions that I will follow up on ASAP :)
On a more any-suggestions-please? front, I'm looking for yet another doctor to add to my ever-expanding team of specialists (seriously, I'm starting to feel like Liz Taylor up in here). Prepare for long story to commence... now.
Last year I had a lot of bizarro symptoms that really strongly pointed toward hypothyroidism, so I had bloodwork done by my internist. It turned that in fact my B12 level was REALLY low, and pernicious anemia (an autoimmune inability to absorb vitamin B12 properly, if you're wondering) explained away most of my symptoms, so super B12 supplements helped almost immediately with a lot of the symptoms. BUT I'm still having a handful of pretty bad symptoms that still seem to be pointing very strongly toward hypothyroidism - and in fact, my internist last year told me that my thyroid hormones were on the "low end of normal." From what I understand from Dr. Internet - don't worry, I'm a professional librarian, so me and Dr. Internet get along nicely - there's actually a lot of debate about what constitutes a normal "thyroid" level and whether that number might vary among individuals.
So here's where you come in. I'm looking for recommendations for an endocrinologist (or internist, if you see them for your thyroid) who is willing to consider treating "low normal" thyroid levels as hypothyroidism, in the presence of a plethora of other systems pointing toward a hypothyroid issue. It'd be great if they took GHI, but I don't expect you to do the legwork on that for me. Manhattan preferred, please, as this is where I live and work (sorry). Thanks so much, my fellow hyper-hypos!!!
On a more any-suggestions-please? front, I'm looking for yet another doctor to add to my ever-expanding team of specialists (seriously, I'm starting to feel like Liz Taylor up in here). Prepare for long story to commence... now.
Last year I had a lot of bizarro symptoms that really strongly pointed toward hypothyroidism, so I had bloodwork done by my internist. It turned that in fact my B12 level was REALLY low, and pernicious anemia (an autoimmune inability to absorb vitamin B12 properly, if you're wondering) explained away most of my symptoms, so super B12 supplements helped almost immediately with a lot of the symptoms. BUT I'm still having a handful of pretty bad symptoms that still seem to be pointing very strongly toward hypothyroidism - and in fact, my internist last year told me that my thyroid hormones were on the "low end of normal." From what I understand from Dr. Internet - don't worry, I'm a professional librarian, so me and Dr. Internet get along nicely - there's actually a lot of debate about what constitutes a normal "thyroid" level and whether that number might vary among individuals.
So here's where you come in. I'm looking for recommendations for an endocrinologist (or internist, if you see them for your thyroid) who is willing to consider treating "low normal" thyroid levels as hypothyroidism, in the presence of a plethora of other systems pointing toward a hypothyroid issue. It'd be great if they took GHI, but I don't expect you to do the legwork on that for me. Manhattan preferred, please, as this is where I live and work (sorry). Thanks so much, my fellow hyper-hypos!!!
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