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@alexandriagarcia0611 First of all, thank you for your service. Secondly, you are a military man and you’re being treated this way?! I’m not totally shocked, but the way you’re being treated is a tragedy! It may be just hemorrhoids, but you need a more thorough examination of your colon and stomach. I had 18” of my sigmoid (large) colon removed due to severe diverticulitis in April of 2022. A lengthy surgery, but no bag was required thankfully! I also since having this surgery developed Hashimoto’s and Hypothyroidism, as I never had it before the surgery. I was gaining weight by the day, literally and knew something wasn’t right. My daughter, who had a total Thyroidectomy due to thyroid cancer, asked me to have my Thyroid Labs run. To my and my doctor’s surprise, I had both Hashimoto’s and Hypothyroidism. He put me on medication immediately, Synthroid 125 mcg and Cytomel 5 mcg daily until my thyroid labs began to drop and now I’m only taking 75 mcg of Synthroid. To control Hashimoto’s, I’ve eliminated eating gluten, dairy, soy and seed oils which are highly inflammatory foods. Guess what, body inflammation and weight came off! I guess if I were you, I would talk with my Gastrointestinal doctor about the bleeding and have a full Thyroid Panel which should include: TSH, T3-free, T4-free, Reverse T-3 and TPO Antibodies. Be sure to include all of these markers for the Thyroid Labs. Some doctors don’t test TPO Antibodies, but that’s where Hashimoto’s will show up, if your numbers are above 10. Mine were 600 and I brought mine down by diet. Wishing you all the best!
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Thank you, I appreciate your quick response, I am a female but yes, that's just the way the hospitals work for military. I won't say all of them are bad but that's just my experience. I am sorry to hear that, but relieved that the surgery went well! I have gotten all of those labs' multiple times, my most recent is still the same, high TSH and high T4, all of my T3 's are normal and my antibodies (AB is 600 iu/ml) and (thyroglobulin is 4,000 Ui/ml). They haven't diagnosed me yet, since I am experiencing both hyper and hypo symptoms. The endocrinologist is stumped because he's never seen someone with persistent high TSH and HIGH T4. It's not common for Hashimoto's, the beginning stages of Hashimoto's may cause high TSH and T4 but not over a span of 8months. I have my next appointment with my ENDO next week, I am nervous. I have been experiencing crazy symptoms for over a year now with nothing to help. Whatever it is is also causing my bones to heal slow. I had an Austin bunionectomy in Jan this year and my bone still isn't healed from the surgery, even my podiatrist was concerned because it should have healed about 5 weeks ago.