I had a fantastic (???) visit with an endocrinologist on Friday. I don't think fantastic is the right word but I'll go with it. She took one look at me, my labs and my PET scan from JUNE and Dx'd me with Hashimoto's.
I am NOT CRAZY! I am NOT a hypochondriac! I was really beginning to think I was making myself ill. I sailed through my mastectomy, I worked through chemo, I climbed over radiation and then I HIT A WALL. I had been getting better and better and better and then I was worse and worse and worse than I was during the worst of chemo. And I was certain I was doing it to myself and worse, so was my MO and SO.
I'm feeling pretty vindicated. My endocrinologist was surprised no one brought up my PET scan from JUNE. She has requested a report to go with the images. It's a little depressing that it may have been caught earlier and I may not have had to feel so miserable. C'est la vie! I'm going to be well again and that's all that matters.
Oddly and coincidentally, my PCP had run some of these labs in Nov and they were normal. Endo explained it away --- that at the time I was probably very hyperthyroid and coming down as most of my thyroid gland had been destroyed and was dumping T4/T3 into my blood. The nodule my MO imaged two weeks ago was a pseudo nodule and is really the last remaining bit of healthy thyroid tissue (about the size of an M&M).
Don't give up. If you feel worse after chemo chase down an answer. Don't let anyone tell you "of course you feel sick, you just had chemo and radiation" or "it's not uncommon to have depression after chemo and radiation".
As for that new puppy....it's on hold again. I can barely put my shoes on, never mind try to house train and socialize a baby Rottweiler.