Hi Michele (and all).

No thyroidectomy by surgery.  I became hypothyroid when I was 10 after
bronchial pneumonia and finally diagnosed at 15.  I was treated as though I
was Hashimotos and finally heard that word years later.  I had other
autoimmune problems (especially allergy reactions), so it made sense.
Whether or not it was Hashimotos, by the time the doctors started the game of
trying (and failing) to raise my TSH by lowering Synthroid (causing hypo
symptoms again) my thyroid gland was so destroyed or shriveled that it was
difficult to find.  The ultrasound guy, not knowing, had a hard time finding
what was left.  Will the gland recover while I take straight T3?  I don't
know yet.

One friend had thyroid toxicity.  It was her back muscles that put her in the
hospital.  Doctors wanted to do surgery on her thyroid gland.  She would not
let them and chose the vitamins-minerals-supplements route instead (she now
sells the brand she used) and recovered.  She lived/s in a very polluted
place -- the air and water and soil are polluted, and something in the
pollution caused her thyroid gland to overproduce at that time.  She's still
a bit hyper, but at 70 she is not suffering from "old age."


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