Confused regarding thyroid findings!

[Deepette]

I have been tested for everything you can imagine...or so I thought.  I was called regarding my appointment next week, but now my doctor has referred me to a different doctor.  I had an abnormal PET scan.  My thyroid was "hot" .  I also had an ultrasound, this was also abnormal.  I have been having so many tests I am sick of it.  My symptoms are:  Pain in BACK (no uptake on Scan). Neck pain, so severe I can not turn my neck.  My eyesight has changed for the worse.  My oral surgeon says the ulcers in my mouth are just not healing.  My hearing is weird. I actually hear blood rushing in my head.  My ears also pop like I am on an airplane.  Constant yawning does not make ears stop popping.  Anyone have any suggestions?  Further, my thyroid was removed 30 years ago, and I was treated with RAI then.  Evidently, my thyroid has grown back.  When I was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism, a portion of my thyroid was removed.  I was diagnosed with Grave's disease 30 years ago also.  Look forward to suggestions.

[youvegottobekidding]

Neck pain and stiffness is one of the commonest symptoms of lyme disease. It can also cause eyesight damage and gives a lot of patients freaky hearing sensations. Ten percent of lyme patients (eg myself!) get hypothyroid conditions as a result of lyme.

If you 're in the US it would be best to get tested at Igenex, the most reliable lab.
If you want a doctor to assess you, email ILADS and tell them where you live and where you could travel to
www.ilads.org

You could take another approach and go to a good opthalmologist as they tend to be more aware of what lyme disease can do to your eyes than most doctors (it can make you blind so they have to be on the ball).

BTW over 50 percent of people with confirmed lyme disease swear they have never been bitten by a tick and have never had a rash.

[Red_Star]

I'm a fan of B12! :)

[Deepette]

Thank you for answering my question!! Have a great day!!

[Red_Star]

This is an excerpt from Science Daily on "Vitamin B12 Identified As An Effective Canker Sore Therapy, Study Suggests"

"The researchers tested the effect of vitamin B12 on 58 randomly selected RAS patients who received either a dose of 1,000 mcg of B12 by mouth at bedtime or a placebo, and were tested monthly for six months.

Approximately three quarters (74 percent) of the patients of the treated group and only a third (32 percent) of the control group achieved remission at the end of the study.  According to the research, "The average outbreak duration and the average number of ulcers per month decreased in both groups during the first four months of the trial.

However, the duration of outbreaks, the number of ulcers, and the level of pain were reduced significantly at five and six months of treatment with vitamin B12, regardless of initial vitamin B12 levels in the blood. During the last month of treatment a significant number of participants in the intervention group reached 'no aphthous ulcers status' (74.1% vs 32.0%; P < .01)."