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Why are doctors so unwilling to diagnose or help in regards to a problem with the thyroid?

  • My mother had her thyroid removed after years of fighting with doctors. They kept telling her there was nothing wrong with her thyroid after years of blood tests showing it was not abnormal. Even though she had repeated medical problems that were symptoms of a bad thyroid. Finally when her thyroid was removed, it was completely riddled with lymph nodes. The doctor who performed the surgery said my mother was very lucky she did not have thyroid cancer. But yet because of blood tests that showed that her thyroid was fine, she had to suffer. I also have been having the same symptoms that my mother has. The doctor is saying that I have a condition called Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. But yet since my blood tests are not showing major abnormalities, the doctor is not willing to do anything except increase the dose of Synthroid that I am taking. He claims the insurance company will not justify paying for a thyroid to be removed. He also says even if they were willing to pay for the procedure, he wouldn't want to do it because he doesn't want to go by a blood test alone. He also says I need a nuclear scan of the thyroid, but no insurance company apparently will pay for that even if the blood work shows no abnormalities. I am tired of getting different doctor's opinion's on this, when they all agree that my thyroid is messed up, and that since my mother had a bad thyroid it is highly likely that I have inherited the same problems she had. I just don't understand why doctors are so unwilling to help when it comes to a thyroid problem. I don't see why it is such a problem for a doctor or an insurance company to help take care of a thyroid problem? What is so bad about trying to help someone with a thyroid problem? I am ready to rip my thyroid out of my neck myself at this point because it is getting so bad. As a patient I have a right to demand what I want done too, not some person at an insurance company or a doctor I have only met for 5 minutes of my life. I just don't understand why doctors don't ever seem to want to help with a thyroid problem.

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    Removing your thyroid will not improve your symptoms - all it will do is decrease you chance of getting b cell lymphoma. In fact removing what's left of your thyroid possibly require increased hormone dose. Since b cell lymphoma is rare, doctors prefer to monitor the thyroid rather than destroy it since doing so may decrease your quality of life.

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"Finally when her thyroid was removed, it was completely riddled with lymph nodes. " You need to recheck that. There are no "lymph nodes" in the thyroid, and even if there were, they would not be bad. As to your complaint, it's the insurance that's the problem. Get better insurance or go to Mexico for treatment. And you can thank your GOP lawmakers for giving insurance companies so much control over the health of citizens.

Kaviani999

What a load of BOVINE EXCREMENT! Hypochondria is irrational ignorance.

Sisyphus

The fault is with the insurance companies. Look there. Do you expect the doctor to work for free? Have you offered to pay the full cost of the nuclear scan? That might be the first step. You also expect the doctor to do something outside of the accepted standards of practice. He/she puts his/her license on the line doing things like that. If a surgeon takes out a healthy thyroid, what's to stop you from turning around and suing him/her? It's a shame that medical practice is determined by administrators at insurance companies and lawyers who are ready to destroy a doctor's practice, but that's medicine in the US now.

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