Killing My Thyroid to Live
Surgically removing my thyroid was meant to save my life but it left me in worse state ever and it took two years to get my health back to some form of normality. What I learnt in those two years was invaluable and inexcusable in equal measures.
In October 2019, my gynaecologist picked up on my skewed thyroid numbers on a routine check up and refered me to an Endocronologist. I had been feeling a little lethargic and brain fogged lately and thought it must be something to do with menopause and dwindling hormones. I was otherwise a healthy 52 year old with no health issues.
But my thyroid numbers indicated I was super hyper-that is, my thyroid was overactive and spewing out hormones which symptomatically should mean faster heart rate, feeling anxious, jittery, weight loss….but I had none of the hyper symptoms, infact quite the opposite. My heart rate and blood pressure were on the low side. My Endo was perplexed, something did not add up so he referred me for more investigations.
What followed was a series of more and more probing and invasive tests and escalating red flags that indicated that my thyroid was most suspiciously malignant. I had multiple thyroid scans, two biopsies, an…