Thyroid Condition: Is it considered an autoimmune disease?

No, I only have a primary physician. All I was told years ago was my thyroid at that time was not working at all and my doctor put me on meds. He did not say that I needed to see anyone else, and over the years, I have had two other primary doctors and they didn't say anything about seeing a specialist.

I found through my own experience I’ve had low thyroid. Like you I just had my script fueled and took it. Then someone I know had problems and in the discussion gave me the name of her Endocrinologist who had me get an ultrasound. He looked at the ultrasound and casually said it looks like it’s dieing and said it was small. Apparently there was a nodule and it proved nothing. The ENT is the doc that said I had Hoshimotos when I asked what kind of problem. I happened to by a book accidentally found in the book store called, The Thyroid source book. It was very informative. I also have the Thyroid Diet book also.

My present ENT put a scope down my nose for other reasons and checked my thyroid out and said it looked good. Some ENT’s are surgeons for thyroid issues, but not all. I just wish he would have fixed my deviated septum. I have difficulty breathing through my nose.

I had a scope put down my nose by my ENT due to problems I have but he didn't say anything about my Thyroid at all. I also have a deviated septum and my nose drains a lot from the left side. I'm always clogged up. I, also, have a deviated septum, and he does want to do surgery if I want it, but I do not want to have surgery on my nose done, so declined. I was having problems with hoarseness off and on but I believe it is from allergies but glad he did check things out. Why I don't want the surgery, I don't know. Heard different things about it, but at my age, decided not to have it done.

@dablues I recently had an ENT consultation to discuss my options as I don't particularly want surgery to fix a deviated septum myself. Most of the drainage and junk comes out of my left nostril even though my right one seems to be harder to breathe through. I opted to use a proprietary nasal spray from Mayo Clinic 2 times a day after doing a nasal rinse. It's been a little over a week now and I'm really impressed on how much it's helped my breathing. Here's where I posted about it in the Nasal passage blocked discussion if you want more info - https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/603496/

Thanks for the info. Will check it out!

Can someone not a Mayo patient buy this proprietary nasal spray from the Clinic?

You might want to ask your PCP for a referral to an endocrinologist. Do you have any symptoms that bother you?

The only thing bothering me is my weight gain when I didn't change my eating habits and now that I do my exercises at home instead of the Y, I do 7 days a week instead of 5 days a week.

@dablues Sometimes it's the little things that make a difference in weight gain and it helps to try something new. I've had issues with weight most of my adult life and now at 78 I think I finally figured it out. What has helped me is intermittent fasting and changing the amount of time for my eating vs non-eating windows. There is another discussion group and discussion that you might find helpful.

Low-carb healthy fat living. Intermittent fasting. What’s your why?: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/low-carb-healthy-fat-living-intermittent-fasting-whats-your-why/

More discussions listed under the group page here: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/lchf-living-intermittent-fasting/

I am not a big eater, I eat off a small plate and I don't pile it on. I always was thin but now it appears also, that no matter what food I put in my body my stomach gets really big. I don't know if I'm allergic to food or what. I was told years back when I had allergy tests I wasn't.