On the way home, from the specialist my parents and I didn't say much. I kept reading the notes he gave me over and over again. The next day I went to my GP and gave him the notes. He gave me the evil eye ("so... you still insist that something is wrong with your thyroid?") but he referred me to all the tests that the specialist requested.
A few weeks later I saw the specialist again, with my initial test results. The first diagnosis was decisive: Insulin Resistance, or "pre-diabetes" or "borderline diabetes". In other words.... I was an inch from full blown diabetes.
The thyroid - well that was another matter. The lumps, or nodules as they are called, were quite large and they were solid.... so they were not cysts. The next step was to do a CT scan with radio active dye to see whether they are "hot" (i.e. blood flows through/in them) or "cold" (i.e. no blood flows through/in them).
That test was scheduled to be done ASAP.... I started to worry (why would they hurry, unless they suspected something wrong?).
The scan showed one nodule as hot and the other as cold.... not a happy result. An FNA (Fine Needle Aspiration), a form of biopsy was to be done.
At this point I was already reading all I could about thyroid and thyroid nodules... I wanted to be prepared....what for? I didn't know, nor did I want to think about it....
I got thyroid supplements natural for my sister and me to try out. After taking 2 couples for a few days, My sister and I actually started to get some good sleep. I always woke up energized. I initially considered that perhaps I am having a placebo effect. But its not it really works.
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