New with Questions

[photonut1970]

First a little background info, about 8 years ago an endocrinologist told me I had thyroiditis and it would go away in 6 weeks and I need not follow up.  January 2014 I went to my gyn and she thought she felt a nodule on my thyroid.  I had an ultrasound done, results came back that I had a nodule on my left side, she said I should wait until my next yearly visit (1/2015) to check on it again.  I did not feel comfortable with that so I went to an (different one than 8 years ago) endocrinologist.  Looking at the results he said I did have a nodule and we would check on it again in 6 months.  He did blood work which came back that I had too much thyroid hormone.  He than did a 2 day nuclear iodine test which came back that my thyroid was not making any hormone but was just releasing a large amount of thyroid hormone. He said I had thyroiditis and we would redo blood work and an ultrasound in July. He also said that normally thyroiditis is not reoccurring and he would be surprised if I had had it 8 years.  I'm so confused, this just doesn't sound right to me, how can my thyroid be releasing so much hormone but not making any?  Also, when the endocrinologist looked at my ultrasound he found an enlarged irregular shaped lymph node, I had a ct scan and that was benign, will recheck in June.

I have been so stressed since all this started, I just feel like about 2 months I still have no real answers.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Michele

[flyingfool]

A POSSIBLE explaination as to the confusion of having both too  much and too little.

TSH is a hormone. But it is a PITUITARY hormone.  it is called Thyroid Stimulating Hormone.  The pituitary "tests" the blood and determines the thyroid level. And if the pituitary believes there is too little thyroid hormone, it will secrete TSH hormone.  This TSH is the signal which tells the thyroid gland to produce more thyroid hormone.  The less thyroid hormone in the blood, the MORE TSH hormone the pituitary gland puts out.

So as for your thyroid gland not producing any or enough hormone to be put into the bloodstream thus you would have high levels of Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH).

So What I think MAY be happening is that you have high TSH levels which equates to LOW thyroid hormone in the blood.

But if you post your blood test results it will become clearer.

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Could you please pos the ultrasound findings Uptake test results and blood test?