Hi- I live in Lee County which is Southwest Florida. I have Hashimoto's and the usual laundry list of assorted medical problems. My husband is disabled, we don’t have enough money to make ends meet (rob Peter to pay Paul as my bills go) and no insurance of any type.
I had an ultrasound done last year (before I ran my Visa into the ground). Because of the results and having a cousin who died young from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, it was (and still is) recommended that I have FNA/biopsies done….or at the least another ultrasound to compare against my old one.
Is anyone directly familiar with a grant or organization that would help me have this testing done? I don’t qualify for Medicaid (kids are over 18, I’m under 65). The Family Service clinic here treats only basic problems such as colds.
I’ve pretty much come to terms that there is not help available. My doctor was so insistent that there “must be help out there somewhere” that I decided to give it one last ditch effort.
This is my ultrasound results from last year:
Multiple areas of nodularity, some of which are hypoechoic. Largest nodule is appreciated in the middle third, measuring 3.2x2.1x2.3 cm. Avery hypoechoic nodule is appreciated, slightly more superiorly located measuring 2.5x1.3x2.1 cm. Right thyroid lobe measure 5.8x3.2x3.0 cm.
The left lobe is heterogeneous and demonstrates multiple areas of nodularity, the largest measuring 1.5x0.9x1.3 cm in the middle third. Left thyroid lobe measures 3.9x2.5x2.6cm.
The isthmus is enlarged at 1.2 cm. Isoechoic nodule appreciated in the inferior isthmus measuring 1.7x1.3x2.2cm.